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South Texas Botanical Garden, Corpus Christi,
Nueces County, TX 2/25/14
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Milkweed Bug on Butterfly Weed |
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Port Aransas Nature Preserve East, Nueces County,
TX 2/25/14
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| Checkered White |
Purple Prairie Clover (Dalea purpurea) |
Rose Gentian (Sabatia campestris) |
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Turnbull Center, Port Aransas, Nueces County, TX
2/24/14
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| Male
Blue-winged Teal, after preening but before feathers settled
back in place |
Young Ruddy Duck |
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Port Aransas Nature Preserve at Charlie's
Pasture, Nueces County, TX 2/24/14
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| Bee on Plains Fleabane (Erigeron modestus) |
Moth on Plains Fleabane |
Lesser Yellowlegs |
Another photo of the same
Lesser Yellowlegs |
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The University of Texas Marine Sciences
Institute, Nueces County, TX 2/23/14
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| Gulf Fritillary |
Snowy Egret |
Brown Pelican |
Great Blue Heron |
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Port Aransas Nature Preserve at Charlie's
Pasture, Nueces County, TX 2/23/14
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| Great Southern White on
Plains Fleabane |
Western Pygmy Blue
on another Plains Fleabane (note unrolling petals) |
Lesser Yellowlegs |
Same Lesser
Yellowlegs |
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| Variegated
Fritillary |
White
Pelicans |
White Pelican |
Mating
Hydrophilus long-legged flies |
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Turnbull Center, Port Aransas, Nueces County, TX
2/22/14
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| Young Ruddy Duck, Turnbull Center, Port Aransas, TX, 2/22/14 |
Male Northern Shoveler |
Wilson's Snipe (Gallinago delicata) |
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Paradise Pond, Port Aransas, Nueces County, TX
2/22/14
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| Yellow-rumped Warbler |
Another
Yellow-rumped Warbler |
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Mustang Island State Park, Nueces County, TX
2/22/14
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| Beach
Evening Primrose (Oenothera drummondii) |
Foam, with my reflection in
several places. The good news: surprise beauty! The bad news:
something oily has crept into the mix. |
Royal Tern, probably |
Great-tailed Grackle and Ice Plants |
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Turnbull Center, Port Aransas, Nueces County, TX
2/21/14
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American Avocets |
Pied-billed Grebe |
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Black-necked Stilts and Green-winged Teals |
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Port Aransas Nature Preserve at Charlie's
Pasture, Nueces County, TX 2/21/14
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False Garlic |
Caliche
Globemallow (Sphaeralcea laxa) |
Texas Flax (Linum hudsonioides) |
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White-tipped Black (Melanchroia chephise) on Little Blue Stem |
Lesser Yellowlegs flying |
Lesser
Yellowlegs walking |
Apparently
deer scat. It seems that the berries were poisonous, hence their
reentry showing little digestion. |
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| Flaxleaf Pimpernel (Lysimachia monelli) |
Two Lesser
Yellowlegs |
Firewheel |
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Port Aransas (outskirts), Nueces County, TX
2/21/14
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| Wavy-lined Emerald |
Female midge |
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Port Aransas (outskirts), Nueces County, TX
2/20/14
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| Plains
Fleabane (Erigeron modestus), with petals still rolled up |
Phaon Crescent |
Drummond Phlox (Phlox Drummondii) |
Toxomerus
genus flower fly |
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Turnbull Center, Port Aransas, Nueces County, TX
2/20/14
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| Green Heron |
Green-winged Teal |
Coypu
(better known as Nutria in the US) |
White Pelicans |
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Durham, NC 2/8/14
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Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
Same
Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
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Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 2/7/14
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| Jumping
spider (Hentzia mitrata) |
Jumping
spider, species unknown |
Same jumping spider |
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Durham, NC 2/5/14
Durham, NC 2/2/14
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Red-shouldered Hawk |
Froghopper
(Clastoptera genus). Genus ID confirmed by
Vassily Belov. |
Spider,
possibly a funnel web spider |
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Durham, NC 2/1/14
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