2014-8-15 Bombay Hook NWR, DE
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Horned Lark (Eremophila alpestris) in the fields shortly before the Refuge.
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Two Northern Bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) also before the Refuge.
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Joe Pye weed at the Nature Center
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Rose Pink - A few feet away there was another plant. I've read they're not rare, but are uncommon.
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Rose Pink - A bud, a blossom, and one gone to seed. The stamens have dried up, but the pistil is still showing off.
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Phragmites Reed - Just because I want to be able to look at that color again.
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Blue Dasher female - Karen is very good at sneaking up on dragonflies!
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Atlantic Marsh/Mud Fiddler Crab (Uca pugnax) - I'm fairly certain that's his name. I'm sure he's a guy because he's got Popeye syndrome on one claw.
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Atlantic Marsh/Mud Fiddler Crab - this is the community where he lives. Believe it or not, there are about 80 individuals in this picture.
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Atlantic Marsh/Mud Fiddler Crab - The females, not having to deal with a large claw, eat with both claws.
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Atlantic Marsh/Mud Fiddler Crab with burrow and recycled food pellets. They put mud in their mouths, and poop out the left-overs in little pellets.
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Atlantic Marsh/Mud Fiddler Crab. One is smaller, so it must be younger. Lots of food pellets here.
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Atlantic Marsh/Mud Fiddler Crab - En garde! We might be watching a territorial dispute, I doubt they go in much for friendly jostling.
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Marsh Elder lines one side only of the boardwalk.
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Marsh Elder - It's flowering stems are covered with what look like little round seed pods.
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Marsh Elder - looking down into the plant, it has woody stems.
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Marsh Elder - I strip a few of the "seed pods" and crush them in my hand. Smells like Mint!
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Marsh Elder - Oops! It turns out those aren't seed pods, but tiny flowers. The round green parts are the bracts!
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Marsh Elder - a look at some of the leaves
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Marsh Elder - The underside of a leaf.
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Common Whitetail dragonfly, fem.
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Moonset
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Trumpet Creeper
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Trumpet Creeper
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Groundnut
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Groundnut
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Groundnut
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Groundnut (Apios americana)
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Groundnut leaf
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Autumn Olive berries
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Autumn Olive berries
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Autumn Olive berries
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Snowy Egret
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Snowy Egret - black legs and yellow feet but, be careful, the legs are only black in front!
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Peace
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Great Blue Heron
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Wood Duck, male juv.
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Forster's Tern, juv.
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Chickory and Sulphur Butterfly
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Butterfly-weed (Asclepias tuberosa)
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Queen Anne's Lace and Goldenrod line this stretch of road.
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Great Blue Heron juv
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Mockingbird
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juv Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos)
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Rose Mallow
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Partridge Pea
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Partridge Pea
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Partridge Pea - a spider in every blossom
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Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis)
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white mess
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white unmessed
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Eastern Comma silhouette
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Great Blue Heron
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