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Baby Killdeer. Shown with adult Killdeer in one photo.

One adult, three juveniles. (The next day I saw five juveniles)

a coworker caught this as a caterpillar back in the fall and made it a little enclosure. it emerged today!!

Resting on shore of reflecting pool on the National Mall

With great blue heron

Bald Eagle with chicks

rookery with dozens of black-crowned night herons

Male

pinaúna

Medium Ground-Finch feeding on seeds caked into the mud on a giant tortoise.

Out from their places of winter concealment, hordes of boxelder bugs have appeared on this warm sunny day.

The little guy on the left outracing his cousins :)

Desiccated female and eggs

honey possum or noolbenger
Tarsipes rostratus Gervais & Verreaux, 1842
Tarsipedidae
infraclass: Marsupialia

As soon as it caught its prey, this merganser swam away as quickly and as far away as it could from the other birds.

Red fox; Paul Spring; 1/17/24

Green tree frog blue morph

Roughly 300. Mainly eating berries from eastern red cedar but also from Hackberry tree. And a few possibly ate from young callery pear tree(s).

Olney Manor Recreational Park. Hybrid. Found this reference online: https://www.birds.cornell.edu/crows/domgeese.htm

My best naturalist observation ever, on Christmas day

On top of the marine iguanas head

Con una lagartija de lava

Courtship display.

Florida Predatory Stink Bug feeding on a Stink Bug

Predatory stink bug eating (?) invasive brown marmorated stink bug