This Northern Watersnake, across the street from my house in Durham, North Carolina (USA), 3 April 2025. I had watched him attempt to court a female. He was rebuffed and then retreated to a pile of leaves. The snake gave me some very impressive gapes, apparently threat displays. After a couple of minutes, he settled down to bask in the sun and ignored me.
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I love this photo of a Polyrhachis rufifemur nest I found overwintering under bark.
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Amazing shots!
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Thank you!
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I have always really liked this photo but must confess that I feel like I was spying on a precious moment between siblings. So sweet to watch and capture in a photo one sibling gently kissing the other on the cheek.
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Wow! I see you also used the dove as your profile pic - great choice :)
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I don’t know why, but I’m happy about this one:
Genus Dryocosmus from Greenville, NC, USA on April 1, 2025 by Jason Hernandez · iNaturalist
They looked more like berries than galls. I still haven’t figured out the host tree with those linear leaves, but theoretically it would be an oak if it is hosting this kind of gall.
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@oksanaetal
Thank you!
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I took these two at the beach the other day. Both were of new species for me and I really like the photos I got!
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/276070193
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/276069706
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I don’t have a macro lens, so I don’t have any great photos of insects. I consider my bird pictures the best because of how hard it is to take them. Here are some of my favorites:
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I can’t compete with the amazing photographers here in terms of quality, but this little one was very cute and probably one of my favourite photos
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@ItsMeLucy - my link stopped working so here is the new one that shows the bears I saw the same day as the big horned sheep. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/137505243
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