Update to caption:
Cut-leaved Toothwort - Cardamine concatenata
NOT Slender Toothwort - Cardamine angustata.
With pollinating bee, Andrena species (adjacent observation).
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/203852156
View south across highway in back of driver's open side window in tour bus, west non-stop toward Cádiz
Dwarf Trillium (Carolina Least Trillium) - Trillium pusillum
Location: Wake County, North Carolina
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in one of the most urbanized sections of this city. probably immensely stressed from pedestrians and their dogs, cars, and the lightrail.
A very late day look at a skittish Eastern Pine Elfin on Pyxidanthera barubulata. When I tried to improve my angle, the butterfly flew.
Thankful to get an ID image. My first look at a Pine Elfin in the NC Sandhills Game Land.
For the green and black lichen unknown to me, cf. naturalist.org/observations/200878857
A mystery puzzler to me (every photo I test-uploaded gave different top suggestions, none plausible to me);
for the suggested Rusty Brook Lichen, Ionaspis lacustris, last photo inaturalist.org/observations/200858102
"Love" those bold orange little dimpled dots; 1st photo cropped/full size: if it's something else, let me know!
Eagles breed at several sites on reservoirs not too far away, and I had seen one at our neighborhood lake a few weeks ago. Today three (1 adult, 2 subadults) appeared over my street, soaring, diving, and calling--a first for my immediate yard area. Spotted while walking the dog, I ran back inside and got my camera with telephoto. I snagged a couple of shots when they came out from behind the trees. The neighborhood squirrels were having a fit, all giving alarm calls for about an hour.
I need more practice with birds in flight, but these are my first-ever photos of wild eagles, so I'm a bit ecstatic. I'm old enough that I remember when they were very rare in the lower 48, so this is a pretty big deal for me.
Calling this "juvenile" in iNaturalist, but that may not be strictly correct.
Eagles breed at several sites on reservoirs not too far away, and I had seen one at our neighborhood lake a few weeks ago. Today three (1 adult, 2 subadults) appeared over my street, soaring, diving, and calling--a first for my immediate yard area. Spotted while walking the dog, I ran back inside and got my camera with telephoto. I snagged a couple of shots when they came out from behind the trees. The neighborhood squirrels were having a fit, all giving alarm calls for about an hour.
I need more practice with birds in flight, but these are my first-ever photos of wild eagles, so I'm a bit ecstatic. I'm old enough that I remember when they were very rare in the lower 48, so this is a pretty big deal for me.
observation for the dark crustose mass with tubelike projections
This photo is not mine. It was taken by a trusted source and extremely close friend who must remain unidentified.
On split oak,. was in stacked firewood..
I found one uprooted, and planted it back into the vernal pool on the granite gneiss outcrop
For the Flatrock Rush (Juncus georgianus), cf. inaturalist.org/observations/198847040
For the Fenugreek Stalkball (Phleogena faginea) the day before, cf. inaturalist.org/observations/198263628
The first & last photos use natural daylight, the middle photos with a 365nm UV light to show fluorescence
In a wooded area between golf greens. Could have been planted in the past, but surrounding vegetation is all native species. Stand burned occasionally.
On a rock cascade of a seasonal stream. Even at this moist time of year, the water did not flower over this moss. Such an event must be infrequent at best, which surprises me very much, as I am accustomed to seeing Fontinalis in situations where it is submerged and must be so for much of the time, given the locations in which it has been found.
For nearby Red Heads (Ramboldia russula), cf. inaturalist.org/observations/197586685
Find this heron reflected in the middle of the last photo; my last photo was the last, for it rose up & flew away
Oysters attach to each other by using small hair-like appendages, byssal threads; clusters range from a few, to massive amounts that cover large surface areas, a protection from predation, as most predators cannot walk over the masses of sharp edges... others, such as birds and crabs, find it much more difficult to open shells with so many attached, and these oyster beds benefit water quality, as oysters get food by filtering it from the water, trapping food particles as well as nutrients, suspended sediments, & chemical contaminants; an oyster can filter 10-15 gallons of water a day, so water clarity increases as it passes over a feeding reef
An image from 2013 I just happened upon from a Green Swamp visit in 2013.
Plant nearly 2 meters tall, a weed in a garden bed, not planted. Thousands of seeds rain down on everything, resulting in many generally unwelcome seedlings (last two photos, taken about six months later).
Bones found in an owl (or other bird?) pellet found at the base of a pine tree. Each is no more than 2 inches long.
This cyanobacterium, initially a small, hollow gelatinous globule, becomes a leathery, flattened, convoluted, gelatinous mass with other nearby colonies; inside the thin sheath numerous unbranched hair-like structures (trichomes) is a string of short cells that are bacteria, thus having no nucleus nor internal membrane system
leaf miner on Snakewort
For the huge Stinkingtoe (Hymenaea courbaril) host tree, cf. inaturalist.org/observations/195388582
For more of these beautifully brilliant, energetic Scarlet Macaw (Ara macao) New World Neotropical parrots where we are standing: inaturalist.org/observations/195391971 & inaturalist.org/observations/195331574
occuring in a burn scar - the area burned at least 9 years ago; possibly in 2005
This is coming up as engelmanii or mayybe virginica in trying to ID it. Cabarrus county, not too far from Rowan where there is a I virginica record. Growing in clayey side pools or maybe swales along a creek, very healthy piedmont piedmont stream. few plants.