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Found w @maxbird1

Weird, maroon red individual from the westernmost extent of diastictus range.

Eating D. orestes

Seal is my guess but I’m not positive because of the bright yellow

Behind some bark! Lifer!

Gray-cheeked Thrush (Catharus minimus)

An absolutely stunning species. Found basking next to a Salt marsh.

young animal with bright coloration and dark eyes

Erythristic phenotype. We only find one of these every few years.

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Female, netted and released unharmed.

Was an albino variety i believe

one of the black-bellied species. the short edge of the container that it was up against is 4cm

Flipped under a rock in the shade
With @maxbird1

Lifer Timber found with @maxbird1 under a rock! Found two more beauts about an hour later!

Nice sized one crawling under a rock
Found with @maxbird1

Super awesome black timber hiked up basking!!
Found with @maxbird1

Lifer Eastern Copperhead, and a wild looking one at that!! Super cool aberrant seen under a rock crevice
Found with @maxbird1

Suuuper long overdue lifer! Even larger shed in the same rock pile

Taken at splinter hill

var. dichotoma

In the South Fork of the New River

Unexpected find, still snow on the ground.

Some interesting coloring (or lack thereof) in this one.

Found waking around

First wood frogs and spawn ever reported from Rockyface.

fledgling, one of only 2 successful nests that I know about from this year on the bombing range.

Specimen was captured 4 Sept 2009.
Museum tag# AUM 39360

Cicindela repanda?

Falling prey to an Eastern Kingbird

Spiffy population of white-flowered plants

Second one I flipped half in the water, released promptly; phone photo

Lifer! Handled VERY BRIEFLY; took this photo with my phone and released back where I found it (only like two feet away from where I took the photo)

The holy grail

Fig. 1 is of the bioluminescence with long-exposure, Fig. 2 is the actual mushroom as found.