Durham, NC 2/28/13
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| Field Pansy |
Durham, NC 2/27/13
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| Jumping spider |
Penny's Bend Nature Preserve, Durham County, NC 2/24/13
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| Trout Lily |
Mason Farm Biological Reserve, Orange County, NC late February
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| Honeybee on unknown herbivore (White-tailed Deer?) scat |
Durham, NC 2/15/13
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| Flower fly |
Mason Farm Biological Reserve, Orange County, NC 2/12/13
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| Spring Azure |
South Texas Botanical Gardens, Corpus Christi, Nueces County, TX 2/8/13
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| American Snout | Queen (ventral view) | Queen (dorsal view) | Cuban Anole |
More from Leonabelle Turnbull Birding Center, Port Aransas, Nueces County, TX 2/7/13
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| Snowy Egret | Black-necked Stilts and Black-bellied Whistling Ducks | Green-winged Teal | Male Northern Shoveler |
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| Male Northern Shoveler | Male Northern Shoveler | Northern Shovelers | Male Northern Shoveler |
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| Pied-billed Grebe | Great Egret | Female Northern Shoveler | Blue-winged Teal |
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| Black-necked Stilts | Tricolored Heron |
Mustang Island (outside Port Aransas), Nueces County, TX 2/7/13
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| Red-breasted Merganser | Fruits of a succulent plant near the water | A group of cormorants, gulls, terns and wading birds on a spit of land coming off the beach. |
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| Tiny shore bug (Pentacora signoreti) | Another shore bug of the same species | Little Blue Heron |
The Leonabelle Turnbull Birding Center, Port Aransas, Nueces County, TX 2/7/13
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| Common Gallinule (until recently known as Common Moorhen) | Male Red-winged Blackbird |
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| Subadult Green-winged Teal | Male Redhead | Pied-billed Grebe in breeding plumage | A male Green-winged Teal and two female Northern Shovelers |
Port Aransas (ocean beach), TX 2/7/13
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| Portuguese Man-of-war | Another Portuguese Man-of-War |
Port Aransas (ocean beach), TX 2/6/13
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| Ruddy Turnstone | Sanderling | Probably a Royal Tern |
Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, Rockport, TX 2/6/13
It was foggy and starting into a heavy rain when I took these photos from a tour boat (MV Skimmer).
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| Whooping Cranes (Grus americana) | Whooping Cranes, an adult and juvenile |
University of Texas at the Marine Science Institute, Nueces County, TX 2/5/13
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| Snowy Egret on the edge of a drainage pond. Netting may be there to prevent erosion. | Another Snowy Egret in a different location |
Port Aransas Nature Preserve at Charlie's Pasture, Nueces County, TX 2/5/13 and 2/7/13 (the last three)
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| American White Pelican | Great Southern White | Ambush Bug on aster | Reddish Egret | Same Reddish Egret doing what I understand to be its famous dance |
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| Ice Plants | Mating flies | Wildflowers | Loggerhead Shrike |
Paradise Pond, Port Aransas, Nueces County, TX 2/5/13 & 2/7/13
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| Couch's Kingbird (Tyrannus couchii) | Great Kiskadee | Yellow-rumped Warbler | Black-crowned Night Heron |
Port Aransas, Nueces County, TX, 2/5/13
These birds showed up at various marshes along the highway on Mustang Island, at the end of which Port Aransas is located.
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| A Roseate Spoonbill and a Snowy Egret | Their comparative sizes shown | Another Roseate Spoonbill. Their beak shapes show well. | Long-billed Curlew (Numenius americanus) |
Gulf of Mexico beach, Port Aransas, Nueces County, TX 2/4/13
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| Royal Terns and a gull | Royal Terns | Female Merlin |
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| Southern Skipperling | Monarch | A neighborhood mudflat |
Durham, NC 2/3/13
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| Orb weaver (male Araneus miniata) |