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Durham, NC 10/26/25
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| Yellow-collared Scape Moth |
Yellow Passionflower vine |
Swamp Milkweed |
Malaysian False Pimpernel |
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Sea Myrtle seedheads |
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| Japanese Spindle Tree fruit, with seed showing |
Japanese Spindle Tree fruit, w |
Fly in action |
Flower Spider (Mecaphesa asperata) |
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| Hoverfly (Toxomerus genus) |
Devil's Beggarticks seed |
Brazilian Vervain |
Barklouse |
Running crab spider |
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| Japanese Maple Leafhopper |
Same Japanese Maple Leafhopper |
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Durham, NC 10/24/25
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| Crab spider (Synema parvulum) |
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Durham, NC 10/23/25
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| Japanese Spindle Tree fruit, with seed showing |
Spanish Needles seedhead |
Male Fiery Skipper |
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Durham, NC 10/22/25
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| Monarch |
Common Buckeye |
Crane fly |
Japanese Spindle Tree fruit |
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| Pond |
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Durham, 10/21/25
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| Sweet Everlasting |
Hearts-a-bustin' |
Spanish Needles |
Woolly Bear |
Rose Hips |
Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 10/18/25
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| Juvie Laughing Gulls in conflict |
Lighthouse at twilight |
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Ocracoke Beach, Hyde County, NC 10/18/25
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| Sanderling |
Same Sanderling |
Mourning Dove with small object |
Monarch |
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| Jellyfish |
Another jellyfish |
Horseshoe Crab, minus tail |
Gull with fish head |
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| Gull footprints |
Sanderling and gull with fish head |
Ghost Crab |
Same Ghost Crab, trying to hide |
Crab hole |
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| Fish head |
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Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 10/17/25
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| Northern Mockingbird |
Canada Geese |
Unusual shorebirds, resisting identification. Photo by Karl David Gottscalk |
Flooding near the lighthouse |
Great Egret |
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| Eurasian Collared Dove |
Rattlebox (Sesbania punicea) |
Dajio |
Rental house |
Sea Oats |
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| Virgin's Bower seedheads |
Seedheads |
Juvie Laughing Gull |
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Ocracoke Beach, Hyde County, NC 10/16/25
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| Beach Morning Glory vine |
Beach Morning Glory vines |
Ghost Crab |
Sanderling |
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Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 10/16/25
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| Water Hyssop (Bacopa monnieri) |
Sunset |
Common Starling |
Snowy Egret |
Purple False Foxglove |
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| Purple False Foxglove. Photo by Karl David Gottschalk. |
Killdeer |
Same Killdeer |
Another Killdeer |
Male House Sparrow |
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| Carolina Anole |
Cloudless Sulphur |
Double-crested Cormorants migrating |
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Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 10/15/25
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| Great Egret |
Juvie Double-crested Cormorant |
Same juvie Double-crested Cormorant |
Adult Double-crested Cormorant |
Adult Double-crested Cormorant |
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| Adult Double-crested Cormorant |
Adult and juvie Brown Pelicans |
Juvie Brown Pelican observing adult downing a fish |
Juvie White Ibis |
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| Great Egret |
Same Great Egret |
Whorled Pennywort |
Juvie White Ibis |
Salt Marsh Mallow (Kosteletzkya pentacarpos) |
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| Brookweed (Samolus parviflorus) |
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Swan Quarter, Hyde County, NC 10/14/25
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| Symphyotrichum genus |
Vasey Grass |
Water drop with reflected tree |
Sea Oxeye Daisy |
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| Female midge (Chironomus decorus) |
Same (Chironomus decorus) |
Goldenrod |
Slender Goldentop (Euthamia caroliniana) |
Slender Goldentop (Euthamia caroliniana) |
Blue Mistflower |
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| Blue Mistflower |
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Goose Creek State Park, Washington, Beaufort County, NC 10/13/25
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| Sedge (Cyperus sesquiflorus) |
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Durham, NC 10/9/25
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| Variegated Fritillary |
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Pair of Variegated Fritillaries |
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| Variegated Fritillaries |
Two-lined Froghopper |
Square-headed wasp (maybe Lyroda subita) |
Spanish Needles seedhead |
Scoliid wasp (Scolia nobilitata) |
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| Rose |
Ocola Skipper |
Female House Finch |
Hearts-a-bustin' seedhead |
Hoverfly (Eristalis dimidiata) in flight |
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| Hoverfly (Eristalis dimidiata) |
Hoverfly (Eristalis dimidiata) |
Hoverfly (Eristalis dimidiata) |
Fiery Skipper pair |
Male Fiery Skipper |
Checkered skipper |
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| Checkered skipper |
Checkered skipper |
Common Buckeye |
Drone Fly (Eristalis tenax) |
Drone Fly (Eristalis tenax) |
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| Hoverfly (Helophilus fasciatus) |
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Durham, NC 10/5/25
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| Pearl Crescent |
Gray Hairstreak |
Same Gray Hairstreak |
Japanese Spindle Tree fruit |
Frost Aster |
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| Hoverfly on Frost Asters |
Male Fiery Skipper |
Female Fiery Skipper |
Another fermale Fiery Skipper |
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| Female Fiery Skipper |
Feather |
Common Buckeye |
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