Durham, NC 4/29/16
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| Monarch | Jumping spider (Hentzia palmarum) | Same jumping spider |
Durham, NC 4/28/16
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| Chalcid wasp (Eupelmus genus) | Pachygronthid bug |
Durham, NC 4/27/16
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| American Snout | Brown Thrasher | Golden-backed Snipe Fly | Green Frog, almost adult, but with a bit of a tail | Fully adult Green Frog |
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| Green Frog tadpoles with legs, dragonfly nymph, crane fly |
Durham, NC 4/26/16
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| Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (in marsh) | Stink bug | Seven-spotted Ladybug Beetle | Longhorn beetle | Leech |
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| Leaf beetle (Prasocuric phellandri) | Jumping spider | Green Frog (in puddle) | Grasshopper nymph | Tadpoles with legs (in puddle) |
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| Fowler's Toad (tiny) recent metamorph, in mud near a puddle | Chipping Sparrow | St. Anthony's Turnip (Ranunculus bulbosus) | Tiny beetle | Seed-eating ground beetle (Amara genus). ID thanks to Blaine Mathison. |
Durham, NC 4/25/16
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| Jumping spider (male Hentzia mitrata) | Jumping spider |
Ocracoke (beach), Hyde County, NC 4/23/16
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| Non-breeding, molting Black-bellied Plover | Sanderling | Willet |
Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 4/23/16
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| Male Northern Cardinal | Carpet Beetle | House Sparrow gathering nesting material from cattails | Male Red-winged Blackbird in cedar tree |
Springer's Point Nature Preserve, Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 4/22/16
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| Beach | Male Red-winged Blackbird | Yellow-rumped Warbler |
Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 4/22/16
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| Banner | Birdfoot Trefoil | Birdfoot Trefoil with some faded (fertilized?) flowers | Evening Primrose | Houses across the marsh |
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| Mite, 1-2 mm long | Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium atlanticum) |
Ocracoke (beach), Hyde County, NC 4/21/16
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| Double-crested Cormorant | Another Double-crested Cormorant | Mostly gulls on a sand bar | Tricolored Heron | Same Tricolored Heron |
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| Tricolored Heron and crow |
Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 4/21/16
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| Barn Swallow | Barn Swallows | Blue Jay | Brown Pelican | Might be Meadow Garlic (Allium canadense) |
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| Big house on the marsh | Pink Wood-Sorrel (Oxalis violacea) | Common Starling | Blue Toadflax (Nuttallanthus canadensis) | Yellow-rumped Warbler |
Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 4/20/16
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| Birdfoot Trefoil in the middle of the day | Birdfoot Trefoil in the early morning | Male Northern Cardinal | Eurasian Collared Dove | Another Eurasian Collared Dove |
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| Great Egret, with green patch indicating breeding status | Mallard duckling without a family | A drainage ditch in the big marsh on the south end | Sunrise | Tricolored Heron flying past the pier |
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| Yellowlegs | Same yellowlegs |
Ocracoke (beach scenes were at north end of the island), Hyde County, NC 4/19/16
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| Crow | Egg cases | Eurasian Collared Dove | Juvie Ghost Crab | Left at tombstone in the town cemetery |
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| House Sparrow | Another House Sparoow | Osprey aircraft flying low over the marsh | Another view of the Osprey aircraft | Palamedes butterfly |
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| Interesting street sign |
Ocracoke (halfway up the island), Hyde County, NC 4/18/16
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| Small Ghost Crab | Blue-eyed Grass | Grackle (nature trail) | Palamedes Swallowtail (nature trail) |
Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 4/18/16
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| Barn Swallow | Beach | Female Northern Cardinal at Springer's Point Nature Preserve | Eurasian Collared Dove | Another Eurasian Collared Dove |
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| Grackle | Gulls in a cedar tree | Hen | Male House Finch | Same male House Finch |
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| Male House Finch | Male Mallard, possibly hybrid w/ American Black Duck | Mourning Dove | Palamedes Swallowtail | Rooster |
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| Common Starling | Sunrise | Yellow-rumped Warbler in breeding plumage |
Pamlico Sound, Hyde County, NC 4/17/16
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| Swan Quarter | Swan Quarter | Herring Gull | Gull | Common Loon taking off |
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| Adult Herring Gull | An island | Laughing Gull | Herring Gull | Second-year juvie Herring Gull |
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| Juvenile Herring Full | Herring Gulls | Herring Gulls | Several Herring Gulls that apparently dove for the same object | Many Herring Gulls following the ferry's wake |
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| Juvenile Herring Gull | Cormorants and gulls on Big Foot Island, which was created by dredging ferry channels | Double-crest Cormorant |
Durham, NC 4/15/16
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| Stink bug (Menecles insertus) | Sawfly | Red Admiral | Same Red Admiral | Question Mark |
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| Pearl Crescent | Green Six-spotted Tiger Beetle | Antmimic spider | American Snout | Five-lined Skink |
Eno River State Park (Cole Mill Rd.), Durham/Orange County, NC 4/14/16
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| White M Hairstreak | Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | Scarab beetle | River Cooters | Other River Cooters |
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| River Cooters | Red Buckeye (Aesculus pavia) | Violet Wood-Sorrel (Oxalis violaceae) | Mining Bees, two leaving a nest in the ground | Mining bee on Spring Beauty |
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| Mining bee (Andrena genus) hovering outside nest entrance | Another mining bee landing at the nest entrance | Mining bee leaving the nest | Mining bee entering nest | Another mining bee entering a nest |
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| Juvenal's Duskywing | Another Juvenal's Duskywing | Giant Chickweed (Mysoton aquaticum) flowers | Fly on a Spring Beauty | Different flies on Spring Beauties |
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| Common Baskettail | Carolina Chickadee | Carolina Satyr | Adult male Blue Corporal |
Durham, NC 4/14/16
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| Carolina Wren with nest-building materials (oak flowers) | Carolina Wren in new nest-building location | Jumping spider (male Hentzia mitrata) | Same jumping spider | Mystery spider |
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| Tulip Poplar flower |
North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, NC 4/14/16
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| Female Northern Cardinal | Same cardinal | Columbines (Aquilegia canadensis) | Little Sweet Betsy (Trillium cuneatum) | Mayapple |
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| Tadpoles, looking somewhat like adult frogs but still without legs. Probably bullfrogs. | More tadpoles | White-throated Sparrow | Carpenter Bee inspecting one of my cameras | Winged termite, caught while flying |
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| Bee |
Durham, NC 4/13/16
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| Jumping spider (female Hentzia palmarum) | Same jumping spider | Seven-spotted Ladybug Beetle larva | Same larva | Running crab spider |
Durham, NC 4/12/16
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| Female Northern Cardinal | Caterpillar Hunter (Calosoma scrutata) | Male American Goldfinch | Ground beetle | Mystery larvae |
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| Mallard family | Male Purple Martin | Squirrel in an oak tree | Water scavenger beetle (moving very fast!) | Ground beetle with springtail |
Mason Farm Biological Reserve, Chapel Hill, NC 4/8/16
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| Common Buckeye | Carolina Satyr | Juvenal's Duskywing | Red Admiral | Eastern Tiger Swallowtails |
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| American Lady | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | Atamasco Lily (Zephyranthes atamasca) | Grasshopper and mimic | Shield-backed katydid |
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| Eastern Tailed-blue | Same Eastern Tailed-blue | Same Eastern Tailed-blue | Female midge (on an Atamasco Lily) |
Durham, NC 4/7/16
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| Brown Thrasher | Caterpillar Hunter (Calosoma scrutata) | Fowler's Toad tadpoles | Jumping spider (female Hentzia palmarum) | Common Water Strider |
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| Black form female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | Northern Mockingbird |
Durham, NC 4/6/16
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| Caterpillar Hunter beetle |
Durham, NC 4/4/16
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| Black Vulture | Same Black Vulture | Bullfrog tadpole | Another Bullfrog tadpole | Longhorn beetle |
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| Jumping spider (Pelegrina proterva, male) | Northern Mockingbird singing | Mourning Dove pair | Cornsalad (Valerianella locusta) |
Durham, NC 4/3/16
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| Female Eastern Tiger Swallowtails | Same Eastern Tiger Swallowtails | Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | Winged termites | Purple Martin in flight |
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| Crane fly | Common Baskettail | Caterpillar Hunter ground beetle | Male Northern Cardinal | Another male Northern Cardinal |
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| Flower fly (Callicera erratica) |
Durham, NC 4/2/16
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| Crab spider (Mecaphesa genus) | Mystery jumping spider | Jumping spider (Hentzia palmarum) | Orb weaver (Araneus miniatus) | Beetle |
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| Weevil (Lechriops oculata) | Same weevil | Male Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | Eastern Tiger Swallowtails | Common Vetch (Vicia sativa) |
Durham, NC 4/1/16
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| Cherry tree | Chipping Sparrow pair |