New population of this species found by @wetlandfan common in area growing on dead ash and box-elder maple.
'Owl' is as close as I can get. Maybe someone who knows the area can tell more (I was vacationing). It picked it's resting place well. No matter what angle I tried, I couldn't get much.
beneath a very large pin oak.
Momma groundhog was very patient with her little hoglets climbing all over her. I'm sure they were like a bag of fleas.
Apparently young groundhogs like to sleep in, just like teenagers. It would be well into the day before they showed up in front of their burrow to explore the yard.
Cullasaja Falls, North Carolina
Cullasaja Falls, North Carolina
A grand old tree near the foot of the falls.
Growing within 10 ft of 2 Prairie fringed orchid. someone pointed out that it could be the Platanthera leucophaea x lacera hybrid. was quite robust for the P. lacera Im use to seeing. Ohio.
I was kind of blocking the trail trying to get pix of one zebra, but realized some folks wanted to come thru. So I apologized and made room. They were very friendly about it and stopped to watch the butterfly for a bit. Shortly after they moved on, they called back to me that there was another some distance away. So of course I had to try for this one too :)
My first Zebra sighting! I was so excited but having an awful time getting any kind of picture. It was in constant motion, zipping all over a fairly wide area. There were a good number of large skimmers in the area, and they seemed to be trying for it. I abandoned the idea of a good picture and just tried to get a picture!
Photo 6 sort of says it all.
eating a window-strike goldfinch
Got to see and learn about this amazing tiny plant (and quite a few other plants!) thanks to @wetlandfan.
Couldn't see what I was shooting very well; unfortunately a lot of the views are obstructed. But I was blown away to be able to see the 'dew', the beautiful colors, and some of the things which appeared to be captured in its sticky fingers (photos 3-5).
Near the head of this valley a sward of Christmas Fern sweeps down, and soon picturesquely mingles with a host of Broad Beech Ferns. Together now, the ferns festoon the forest floor . . . https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/80900648
Given the location very far from any houses I think it was wild or dumped and killed scavenging a harrier or rabbit carcass which were both nearby
Virus?
Yellow, bulging spots on Polystichum acrostichoides, Christmas Fern.
Affected plants were restricted to a small (10-feet, 2-meter) area and right along a narrow deer trail, as if the infection were spread by contact with the passing White-tailed Deer. Speculation of course.
At Woodside Natural Area
This was on informal display at the trailhead, presumably put there by a human. I don't know if it came from the natural area or someplace else.
With 4 leaves on the specimen shown in the 1st 5 photos, as opposed to the typical 2 and occasionally 3 leaves. The widest of them is >7.3 cm. The clump is largely comprised of 'albino' A. tricoccum var. tricoccum but included in it are some with red pigment (see the final photo). A portion of the clump is foraged (disturbed spots at the bottom of it and visible in photo 6) by the landowners.
First this season and what a beauty! The tails are edged in hot pink! #seetheelephant
I was entertained by the almost insolent attitude of the big bullfrog, sitting with its back to the watersnake. "I'm too much for you to handle" seemed to be the message.
Lolsob. It was in my needle felting.
Maybe. Bucking my personal precedent here, and going with the AI ID
Never seen anything like this before, and definitely thought it was in Plantae ...
Morning: Bayfield, WI
Midday: Apostle Islands NP
https://www.inaturalist.org/calendar/lincolndurey/2019/8/1
At least 100 plants in a shagnamnous wetlant. Seems to be out of range for what was predicted from the recent split.
Growing at a site with S. cernua. Flowers parts look too lose for S. cernua.
I don’t expect anyone to be able to agree based on these backlit digiscoped photos, but I wanted to post anyway. This is the infamous Brown Booby that was at Nimisila Reservoir in Ohio for a little over a week. Sadly, a predator got this tropical visitor sometime between this photo and the next morning. A privilege to see, and I wish it could have made it home.
I don't think it is a beaver or muskrat because of the bushy tail.
Is this really milkweed? It was growing among milkweed but this looks like an albino milkweed??
Irregular yellow flower. Alternate, entire leaves. About 8 inches tall. Found in a fen. Living among a variety of sedges and poison sumac.
First time I've seen trillium with a leaf mutation! This single stem had six leaves!
fancy hairdo!
Steamy today in Los Angeles... even the morning was too hot for most critters, including me. The attitude of this amazing Fox Squirrel, who hung out with me, above my picnic table, says it all!