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Durham, NC 2/28/19
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| Female Eastern Bluebird |
Henbit |
White Clover |
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Fort Myers, Lee County, FL 2/24/19
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| Barred Yellow |
Teneral Blue Dasher |
Broadleaf Arrowhead |
Daisy Fleabane |
Eurasian Collared Dove |
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| Lanceleaf Fogfruit |
Female grackle |
Male grackle |
Another male grackle |
Great Egret |
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| Paper wasp |
Northern Mockingbird |
Palm Warbler |
Southwest Airline aircraft |
Mystery wildflower |
Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge, Sanibel, Lee County, NC 2/23/19
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| Mangrove Buckeye |
Osprey |
Plover |
Reddish Egret |
Same Reddish Egret |
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| Same Reddish Egret |
Same Reddish Egret |
Same Reddish Egret |
Same Reddish Egret |
Same Reddish Egret |
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| Same Reddish Egret |
Same Reddish Egret |
Snowy Egret |
Same Snowy Egret |
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| Tricolored Heron |
Wasp about to enter nest. ID thanks to Ken Wolgemuth. |
Another wasp struggling against leaf to get into nest |
White Ibis flying |
Same White Ibis landing |
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| Same White Ibis |
Maybe a Willet |
White Ibis |
White Ibis |
Another White Ibis landing |
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| White Ibises |
American White Pelicans |
Pink Purslane (Portulaca pilosa) |
Willet |
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Fort Myers, Lee County, FL 2/22/19
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| Bagworm |
Florida Tasselflower (Emilia fosbergii) |
Another bagworm |
Jet Blue aircraft |
Largeflower Mexican Clover (Richardia grandiflora) |
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| Male Rambur's Forktail |
Red-bellied Woodpecker |
(Live) snail |
Southwest Airlines aircraft |
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Causeway Islands Park, Lee County, FL 2/22/19
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| Coconut palm |
Crow |
Great Blue Heron |
Same Great Blue Heron |
Snowy Egret |
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| Beach Sunflowers (Helianthus debilis) |
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Shipley Trail at Bailey Homestead, Fort Myers, Lee County, FL 2/22/19
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| Alligator |
Anhinga |
Brown Anole (Anolis sagrei) |
Another Brown Anole |
Dayflower |
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| Common Gallinule |
Gray Catbird |
Same Gray Catbird |
Impatiens |
Ladybug beetle pupa |
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| Monarch |
Juvie Little Blue Heron |
Adult Little Blue Heron |
Mallards |
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| Orchard Spider |
Peppergrass |
Red-bellied Woodpecker |
Salt Marsh Fleabane |
Tricolored Heron |
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| Tricolored Heron |
Another Tricolored Heron |
Turkey Vulture |
Wildflower |
Wood Stork with Brown Pelicans and Double-crested Cormorants |
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| Wood Stork landing |
Same Wood Stork |
Butterfly Weed |
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Lovers Key, Lee County, FL 2/21/19
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| Cuban Anole |
Another Cuban Anole |
Wildflower |
Another of the same species |
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Fort Myers, Lee County, FL 2/21/19
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| Spotted Oleander Caterpillar Moth (Macroptilium lathyroides) |
Same Spotted Oleander Caterpillar Moth (Macroptilium lathyroides) |
Same Spotted Oleander Caterpillar Moth (Macroptilium lathyroides) |
Same Spotted Oleander Caterpillar Moth (Macroptilium lathyroides) |
Swamp Thistle (Cirsium muticum) |
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| Wild Bush Bean (Macroptilium lathyroides) |
Black Willow (Salix nigra), gone to seed |
Ageratum genus |
Leavenworth's Tickseed (Coreopsis leavenworthii) |
Barred Yellow |
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| Bird-of-Paradise (cultivated) |
Great Egret (near pond) |
Mystery lights (not at airport) |
Salt Marsh Fleabane (at pond) |
Snails, moving and putting traces in the sand in shallow water |
Bowditch Point Park, Fort Myers Beach, Lee County, FL 2/21/19
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| Leavenworth's Tickseed (Coreopsis leavenworthii) |
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
Brown Pelican |
Another Brown Pelican |
Breeding Brown Pelican |
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| Same breeding Brown Pelican |
Eurasian Collared Dove |
Breeding Great Egret |
Horseshoe Crab, found in this position |
Northern Mockingbird |
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| Palm Warbler |
Ring-billed Gull |
Royal Tern |
Various forms of life on part of the beach |
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| White Ibis |
Wildflower seen at the beach |
Largeflower Mexican Clover (Richardia grandiflora). These kinds of wildflowers were abundant everywhere in this area, not just at the beach |
Seen in a garden |
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Bowditch Point Park, Fort Myers Beach, Lee County, FL 2/20/19
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| Breeding Snowy Egret: note the deep orange lores. |
Nonbreeding Snowy Egret, which has apparently picked up some seaweed. |
Same nonbreeding Snowy Egret |
White Beggarticks (Bidens alba) |
Wild poinsettia (Euphorbia cyathosphora) |
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| Wildflower |
Brown Pelican |
Firewheel |
Other Firewheels |
Cowpea flower, maybe Vigna luteola |
Durham, NC 2/18/19
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| American Crow |
Wild blueberry bush, showing old and new leaves |
Singing Carolina Wren |
Possibly a new Purple Deadnettle |
Red Maple seeds |
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| Red Maple seeds |
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Durham, NC 2/15/19
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| Common Blue Violet |
Possibly new Purple Deadnettle |
Female Red Maple flowers, just coming out |
Sawfly |
Same sawfly |
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Male Red Maple flowers |
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American Tobacco Trail (Miles 4-6+), Durham, NC 2/15/19
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| Male Eastern Towhee w/ berry |
Same male Eastern Towhee w/ pine cone part |
Persian Speedwells |
Callery Pear (maybe Bradford cultivar, but growing wild) |
Cherry tree, on a front yard |
Durham, NC 2/14/19
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| Azure Bluets |
Charlock Mustard (Sinapis arvensis) |
Common Vetch |
Mystery plants and a Purple Deadnettle |
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Durham, NC 2/13/19
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| Bluets |
Carolina Wren |
Same Carolina Wren |
Leaffooted bug |
Winter Wren |
Durham, NC 2/7/19
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| Springtails |
Two globular springtails |
Four globular springtails |
A globular springtail |
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| Globular springtails |
More globular springtails |
Jumping spider |
Mallards |
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| Male midge |
Female Red-winged Blackbird |
White-throated Sparrow |
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Durham, NC 2/6/19
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| Buttercup |
Ghost spider (Hibana genus, Anyphaenidae family). ID thanks to Laura P. |
Pennsylvania Bittercress |
Persian Speedwells |
Plant, one of several found only in a small area somewhat near a swamp |
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| Tiny wasp |
Wolf spider (Gladicosa gulosa). ID thanks to Laura P. |
Comb-footed spider (Yunohamella lyrica). ID thanks to Chad Heins, confirmed by Laura P. |
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Southern Pines, Moore County, NC 2/5/19
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| Male Northern Cardinal |
Common Dandelion |
Henbit |
Other Henbits |
Northern Mockingbird |
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| White-throated Sparrow |
Yellow-rumped Warbler |
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Durham, NC 2/4/19
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| Red-shouldered Hawk |
Same hawk |
American Robin |
Buttercup |
Great Blue Heron |
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| Smae Great Blue Heron |
Same Great Bluel Heron |
Persian Speedwell |
Purple Dead-nettle |
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Durham, NC 2/2/19
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| Carolina Chickadee |
Another Carolina Chickadee |
Dark-eyed Junco |
Female Downy Woodpecker |
Same female Downy Woodpecker |
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| Same female Downy Woodpecker |
Same female Downy Woodpecker |
Male Downy Woodpecker |
Female Downy Woodpecker |
Mourning Dove |
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| Pine Warbler |
Song Sparrow |
Tufted Titmouse |
Another Tufted Titmouse |
White-breasted Nuthatch |
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| Yellow-rumped Warbler |
Blue Jay |
Female Northern Cardinal |
Male Northern Cardinal |
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