Found this little dude while on a walk. I think he’s a Green Striped Grasshopper with a mutation called erythrism, which pretty much means he has alot of red pigment in him, making him pink!
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Definitely this white tipped sicklebill I saw in Costa Rica, or the pale-billed woodpecker or eyelash viper. Also, this spider is never going to get an ID on here but it was super interesting, probably my rarest observation so far this year.
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Red-bellied woodpeckers are one of my favourite birds and I still haven’t seen one. I just think it’s funny how they go like :V when they’re being aggressive with another bird
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I didn’t know that boulders could have hair and moustaches. There are some on a certain beach in France.
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Some kind of stalked puffball in a sand prairie: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/201331658
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Not extremely rare for my area, but I saw my first Spotted Salamander of the year last night! I usually only see their eggs or larvae, so seeing an adult is a real treat.
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I’m really proud of this Red Bellied Woodpecker in flight photo. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/201156981
Not really rare, but this is the first time I was able to photograph a Wood Duck. They are so skittish I can never get close enough. I got lucky when a small group landed near where I was standing. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/200465161
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Beautiful shots!
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I think this is my favorite so far
This vulnerable butterfly from one of the most polluted region in Jakarta. I’m very surprised that this species could thrive there.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/198876615
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Though the winter up where I am has barely any insects or plants, I have been spending a lot of the time birding again. I saw this Great Horned Owl, these Harlequin Ducks, my second flock of Brants. I saw my third Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, a more uncommon woodpecker, and my favorite picture of the very common Northern Flicker.
^ Great Horned Owl
^ Harlequin Ducks
^ Brants
^ Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
^ Northern Flicker
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That’s awesome. I saw this species when I was in Panama on the way up to Altos del Maria.
It’s so incredibly odd to me for them to be discussed as rare. I see at least 5 day when I’m not even looking for them.
I wish you luck on your search!
Best part of the year so far has to be that I finally saw a mottled duck!!!
This observation isn’t my first of one but It’s my better photos I got of a separate individual also this year https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/196942078
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Nice! Whats the species in the background? (or should I say frontground lol)
If I remember correctly it was a Mallard x Mottled hybrid, He was hanging around with a couple other hybrids plus the mottled lol
Interesting!
Haven’t had much chance to observe, bit of a health blip, but these are probably my two favourite finds to date this year.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/196017265 This beautiful and tiny wasp.
And this Cape Porcelain weevil. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/200802717
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They’re pretty rare in eastern Canada, and they don’t exist on the west coast at all. I probably did see them when I lived in North Carolina, I just wasn’t into birds back then
I’d go with this probably purpletop vervain (Verbena incompta) - it’s not RG but I’m certain of the ID. Growing in an old wall, it’s an extremely rare alien in the UK - it’s the 3rd iNat observation of it here.
Is it a garden escape, being sold as a spiked form of the very popular V. bonariensis? Is it a seed contaminant, some accidental introduction? Who knows - but somehow it ended up on a wall here!
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