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Fast growing vine with tendrils. Develops teal, blues, purple berries later in season.

Caught, drowned, and swallowed whole three California Ground Squirrels while I watched in abject horror

Weedy shrubs with either orange or red berries.

Weedy in a narrow strip of young, disturbed woodland.

Most young branches glabrous, but some definitely not, and some branches with glabrous sections and densely pubescent sections.

Fruiting branches have leaves that look like they may be herbicide damaged.

No Vitis we're harmed in the making of this observation

Very cool lobes! This was the only frond in the population that was like this.

Second and third photos are a comparison of L. cuneata (left) and L. virginica (right).

Pee Dee NWR

Squirrel is carrying the skull of a raccoon up the tree where it proceeded to chew on the bone.

Variegated

Sweetgum seeds on the ice

Whoa! Thought they were only supposed to have a single “apple”

Courtship display.

Red-shouldered Hawk

it caught probably some of the bullfrog's tadpole

Chipmunk - Tamias striatus - dead in Eastern Evens Alley.

Near a dead deer in the median on University Blvd about 100 yards east of Sligo Creek Parkway

Seen along the Woodland Trail.

Eastern Gray Squirrel

Eastern Chipmunk

Leucistic, banded bird; already reported.

The squirrel was brown, grey, and white. It had stopped to pick up a nut but then quickly. put it in its mouth and ran away.

Not captive

Albinism confirmed, previous low-quality observation deleted.

In an oak tree. Someone’s stocking up for winter.

Black-capped Chickadee dining on an Eastern Cottontail Rabbit
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No skull, but synsacrum and feathers right size and shape for C. brachyrhynchos. Found next to the remains of a campfire and bones arranged by me for ease of photos. Last photo in situ.

Given the unusual amount of white features, this is very likely a leucistic house sparrow.

Wanted my peanut butter pretzels. I’m not sharing.

Eastern Chipmunk

cane/ stem is a powdery blue color - powdery bloom glaucous?

Melothria pendula. Heritage Island, Anacostia River, Washington, DC, USA.

Beautiful and mysterious species