Penny's Bend Nature Preserve, Durham, NC 3/31/16
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| Ashy Clubtail | Large Bee Fly on Spring Beauty | Winter leaves of a Crane Fly Orchid | Cutleaf Toothwort | Downy Yellow Violet |
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| Dutchman's Breeches | Early Saxifrage | Male Eastern Tailed-Blue | Another Eastern Tailed-Blue | Green-and-gold |
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| Juvenal's Duskywing | Carolina Spring Beauty | Wild Strawberry | Dutchman's Breeches |
North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, NC 3/30/16
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| Carolina Anole | Male Northern Cardinal | Little Sweet Betsy Trillium | Mating Common Water Striders | Mosquito pupae and unknown object |
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| Heartleaf Foamflower | Gemmed Satyr | Dwarf Violet Iris (Iris verna) | Aquatic beetle |
Durham, NC 3/30/16
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| Zebra Swallowtail | Common Baskettail | Another Common Baskettail | Common Whitetail | Chipping Sparrow |
Durham, NC 3/29/16
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| Canada Geese | Carolina Wren | Same Carolina Wren | Same Carolina Wren singing | Cuckoo bee |
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| Female nonbreeding American Goldfinch | Great Purple Hairstreak | Green Six-spotted Tiger Beetle | Spring Beauty | Eastern Gray Squirrel |
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| Tachinid fly | Fowler's Toad tadpoles, close-up | Just some of the many Fowler's Toad tadpoles surprised by rapid rainwater drainage | Puddling Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | Several Eastern Tiger Swallowtails puddling |
Durham, NC 3/28/15
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| Carolina Wren | Hangingfly | Mayfly | Northern Water Snake | Eastern Tiger Swallowtail |
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| Same Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | Tree Stink Bug | Very young Yellowbelly Slider, found on cemented area |
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, Wake County, NC 3/26/16
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| First-year Common Merganser | Mourning Dove |
Prairie Ridge Ecostation, Raleigh, Wake County, NC 3/26/16
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| Male Eastern Bluebird | Male House Finch | Male Red-winged Blackbird | Another male Red-winged Blackbird | Male Eastern Bluebird |
Durham, NC 3/25/16
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| Firefly beetle (Photinus genus) | Jumping spider (Hentzia mitrata) | Jumping spider (Eris militaris) | Inchworm | Crab spider (Synema parvulus) |
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| Beetle with damaged wing |
Durham, NC 3/24/16
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| American Lady | Apple Maggot Fly | Small beetle | Bug nymph | Cabbage White |
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| Crab spider | Hawk in flight | Leatherwing beetle (firefly mimic) | Saucer Magnolia | Small scarab beetle |
Durham, NC 3/23/16
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| Jumping spider (Habronattus decorus) | Green Six-spotted Tiger Beetle | Bowl-and-doily Spider | Sassafras (Sassafras albidum) |
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| Sycamore seed | Mystery fly |
Duke University East Campus, Durham, NC 3/23/16
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| Karl with Johnny Appleseed | Tufted Titmouse | Redbud | View across Buchanan St. |
Durham, NC 3/22/16
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| Blueberry flowers | Question Mark | Same Question Mark |
Durham, NC 3/21/16
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| American Lady | Damselfly with prey | Leatherwing beetle | Mutant pansies | Spring Beauties |
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| Common Blue Violets and Confederate Violets | Wasp |
Durham, NC 3/19/16
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| Carolina Wren | Song Sparrow | Same Song Sparrow |
Durham, NC 3/18/16
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| Bumble Flower Beetle taking off | Bumble Flower Beetle trying to burrow | Spring Beauty | Green Six-spotted Tiger Beetle | Jumping spider (Habronattus decorus) |
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| Tiny caterpillar | Tiny orb weaver (Cyclosa turbinata) |
Duke Gardens, Durham, NC 3/17/16
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| Male Wood Duck | Lesser Scaup | Hooded Merganser pair | Mystery duck |
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| Male Eastern Towhee | Female Northern Cardinal | Song Sparrow | Mourning Dove | Same Mourning Dove |
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| Cabbage White | Plum flowers | Yellowbelly Sliders |
Durham, NC 3/16/16
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| Tiny beetle, parasitized by mites | Bug nymph | Bumblebee on leaf (maybe there's a flower there) | Catkin of the Hophornbeam | Another view of the same catkin |
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| Common Yellow Wood-sorrel | Stink bug (Menecles insertus) | Pygmy grasshopper |
Durham, NC 3/15/16
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| Dark Fishing Spider or wolf spider | Eastern Mud Turtle | Confederate Violet | Another Confederate Violet | Yet another Confederate Violet |
Durham, NC 3/14/16
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| Female Northern Cardinal | Green Six-spotted Tiger Beetle | Kuwana's Ladybug Beetle (Chilocorus kuwanae) | Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle | Tiny beetle |
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| Common Blue Violet | Field Pansy | Ground Ivy | Dark Fishing Spider | Common Grackle |
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| Jumping spider (female Hentzia palmarum) | Paraphidippus aurantius | Mystery spider | Carpenter Bee |
Durham, NC 3/13/16
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| Male Mallards | Globular springtails | Sugar Maple flowers | Winter crane fly |
North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, NC 3/12/16
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| Male Eastern Towhee | Brown Thrasher | Atamasco Lily | Crane Fly Orchid Winter Leaf | Cabbage White (dorsal view) |
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| White-throated Sparrow | Snapping turtle (head) | Mining bee | Mining bee on a Spring Beauty | Leaf |
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| Early Saxifrage | Male Eastern Bluebird | Female Eastern Bluebird | Mining bee (Andrena genus) starting to dig a nest | Mining bee near nest |
Durham, NC 3/12/16
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| Female Eastern Bluebird visiting nest | Male Eastern Bluebird visiting the same nest | Female Red-winged Blackbird | A close-up of the male Eastern Bluebird near the opening where their nest was. |
Durham, NC 3/11/16
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| Dark-eyed Junco | Brown-headed Nuthatch | Same Brown-headed Nuthatch | Jumping spider (female Hentzia palmarum) | Wolf spider |
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| Eastern Gray Squirrel | Northern Brownsnake |
Durham, NC 3/10/16
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| Eastern Gray Squirrel | Tufted Titmouse | Persian Speedwell | Field Pansy | Blue Jay |
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| Male Northern Cardinal | Clubionid spider | Another clubionid spider |
Durham, NC 3/9/16
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| Female Red-winged Blackbird | Jumping spider (Admestina genus) | Same jumping spider | Long-jawed orb weaver |
North Carolina Zoo, Asheboro, NC, 3/8/16
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| Northern Cardinal, a visitor | Common Grackle, a visitor | Female African Pygmy Goose | Male African Pygmy Goose | Bison |
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| Chilean Flamingo | Cougar | Mystery African Duck | Giraffe | Gorilla |
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| Young gorilla | Lion | Lionesses | Masked Lapwing | Peregrine Falcon |
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| Red River Hog | Scarlet Ibis | Zebras | River Otter |
Durham, NC 3/7/16
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| Jumping spider (male Hentzia palmarum) | Jumping spider (female Hentzia palmarum) | Mystery spider | Lightning bug beetle (Photinus genus) |
Durham, NC 3/6/16
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| Male Northern Cardinal | Male Mallard, Durham, NC, 3/6/16 | Singing Song Sparrow | Common Water Strider | Probably a Song Sparrow |
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| White-throated Sparrow on Wisteria | Same White-throated Sparrow apparently eating a Forsythia flower |
Durham, NC 3/5/16
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| Black Vulture | White-throated Sparrow | Another White-throated Sparrow | Common Blue Violet | Feathers (down) |
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| Trout Lily | Japanese Mazus |
Durham, NC 3/4/16
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| Eastern Phoebe |
Durham, NC 3/2/16
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| Common Grackle |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 3/1/16
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| White-breasted Nuthatch | Sharp-shinned Hawk | Northern Mockingbird | Same Northern Mockingbird | Eastern Towhee |
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| Mystery flowers | Hellebore |