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A picture of a juvenile common water snake. It is under the water in a shallow but fast-flowing stream, partially under some rocks. In the bottom of the frame you can see it poking its head out of the water to look at me
A spider, probably a common fishing spider given its proximity to the water. Very leggy. Not obvious from this photo but also huge - perhaps 3 inch leg span. Mottled brown with longish body.
A photo of a small plant close up so you can see the stem and leaves. The leaves grow alternate and are more or less ovate with kinda ruffly edges
A photo of what is perhaps a young raspberry bush, growing in the shade of another plant
A photo of a leaf. It is strongly lobed. My plant app id'd this photo as giant ragweed
A small cream-colored bird's egg with brown speckles, post-hatching, laying on grey outdoor carpet. The shadow of a fence post crosses the egg aesthetically
A photo of a Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana) out and about on a snowy day. It has its head down sniffing for food under some (not pictured) bird feeders
A young turaco, I'm pretty sure a white crested (Menelikornis leucotis) sitting on the edge of a planter at a zoo. He has a green chest and white head with black above his eyes and over his forehead, and a bright yellow beak.
A pair of animal paw prints in some mud. There is a set that sort of look like human hand prints but with claws - that's a racoon, probably front paws. There is also another, smaller pair of tracks, in nearly the same position but offset enough you can see both kinds clearly. These ones look a little cat-like but are quite tiny.
A photo of a spider on a stone wall. The spider is well camouflaged so it blends in, but is holding some kind of prey it just caught. The prey item is black and dark red and stands out a little more.
An eastern eyed click beetle larvae, also hanging out on a different rotting old log. The larva is tan with a darker brown head. It looks sort of like a segmented worm except it has legs. It's a little hard to tell but I think it also has big pincers on its head
An eastern eyed click beetle (Alaus oculatus) on a rotted old stump. It is a large, long, mostly black beetle. It's sort of mottled with lighter greys, and has two big eye spots.
A photo of a tree - juniper, I believe - with a cedar apple rust gall nestled between its branches. It's dried out in this photo, but was originally bright orange! It looks like a ball with lots of little floppy spikes sticking out of it, very funky
A photo of Ethan Kocak's new book The Unfamiliars, with cover art by Syd Moncrief. It features the main character, a black cat named Gram, hanging upside down from a flying broom and reaching to grab her hat. A stick big and salamander ride the broom with her
A side-by-side comparison of a photo of a mantis of some kind - perhaps a Carolina mantis - standing upside down on a window so that you are viewing it from underneath, and a watercolor painting of the same sans background
A side-by-side comparison of a photo of an American robin sitting on a nest tucked on top of the bend in a rain spout, and a small pencil drawing of the same, sans background. I did draw the nest though. The robin decorated its nest with some nice dried flowers
A side-by-side comparison of a photo of a young common watersnake, and a watercolor painting of the same but without the background. It is curled up in a pile of leaves, probably sunning
A side-by-side comparison of a photo of an opossum and a pencil drawing of the same, sans background. It is facing towards the camera and leaning down as if investigating something on the ground
A side-by-side comparison of a photo of a salamander in my hand and a watercolor painting of just the salamander, no background. It's a sort of reddish brown with darker spots all over its body. It's very long, with long limbs and a long tail, curled in a sort of u-shape
A side-by-side comparison of a photo of what is maybe a reddish egret - they are indeed somewhat reddish, and grey, with a black cap - in profile, standing somewhat awkwardly on a wooden fence.
A side-by-side comparison of a photo of a large snail sitting on my hand and looking down, and a watercolor painting of just the snail on a white background
A photo of an eastern newt (Notophthalmus viridescens) sitting in a sieve that was used to (gently) catch it. It is surrounded by some various pond grasses and leaves that got caught with it and also some snails. It is more or less a sort of orange-brown newt but if you look close it has some spots along its sides
A mostly dark video of a pond at night. A flashlight sweeps through, illuminating a stand of cattails. You can hear spring peepers, a species of frog, peeping away. They sound a little like car alarms, and are probably almost as loud despite being tiny
A photo of a snowy yard. A tree is just visible in the top right corner, and a bush in the lower left. There are some scraps of bark in the snow, along with tracks from a squirrel, a rabbit, and some variety of small bird
Three mourning doves sitting on a chain link fence in a snowy yard. They are all poofed up for warmth
A photo of 8 mourning doves sitting on the branches of a bare tree on a winter day. They are all puffed up for warmth
The same bird from before. It's facing forward now, head ducked, and its puffed up feathers make it quite circular from this angle.
A small bird - I think probably a Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis) - sitting on the branch of a bare tree on a winter day. This bird is mostly dark grey with a white underbelly
A red-backed salamander (Plethodon cinereus) in a small plastic collection cup. In the background you can see a hand, showing that this salamander is quite small. It is very long and skinny, a deep rusty red color, lighter on the back, with a long tail
An illustration of a loricifera, which is a type of tiny ocean-dwelling animal. It's illustrated in white on a black background, and looks sort of like a funny see-through vase with many tendrils of various types coming out the top
A video of some sort of black and white duck. Goldeneyes, perhaps? They are swimming near the bank of a fast-flowing river, diving down and popping back up
A slightly blurry photo of a black-billed magpie (Pica hudsonia) toodling around on some lawn grass in front of a river
A scene made of cookies, mounted on a wooden cutting board. There is a river with cliffs in the background, and two little houses on the bank. There are some trees scattered about on the cliffs and beside the houses
A white squirrel (probably leucistic, since it has black eyes) on a branch of a tree. It's sort of behind, but peeking out at the viewer
A close up photo of some grass and clover. There's a tiny salamander just peeking out from under some clover, so all you can see is its head
A short video of a waterfall in the snow. The falls are small but still flowing over a limestone cliff, the edge of the cliff hanging out over the ravine. Below the falls are fallen stones from higher up. There is a pool and a stream full of fallen leaves at the bottom
A small butterfly - some sort of skipper, maybe? - on a bit of yellowing foliage
A video of a squirrel eating a pumpkin on someone's porch. They start by pulling out a seed, eat it while standing facing the camera, and then go back for more
A photo of a cordyceps fungus, which is a sort of tall, narrow orange fungus, sprouting apparently from the ground (but actually from some kind of caterpillar, probably). This photo is by Gail Hampshire
A photo of a hairy caterpillar with a mostly brown and red body with yellow highlights. It is dead atop a bunch of pupating wasp larvae, which look like a bunch of fuzzy little white bundles. This photo is by György Csóka.
A photo of a hornworm, which is a green caterpillar, with parasitoid wasp cocoons sprouting out of its back. The cocoons look like little white bundles. This photo was taken by WanderingMogwai
A parasitoid wasp next to a cinnibar moth caterpillar it has just infected. This photo is by Ian Alexander
A photo of a snail infected with a parasitic flatworm. It's eye stalks have been replaced with the worm's broodsacs, which are green and pulsate. Very gross. This photo is by Pavel Kirillov
A photo of the owner in a very goofy looking praying mantis costume, peeking out from behind a tree
An assassin bug of some variety hanging on some kind of bolt on the side of a building
A photo of a young salamander of some variety in a white tub full of water. There is no scale here but it was very small, maybe an inch or two at most
A photo of a snail sitting atop my hand in front of a field of yellow flowers and prairie grasses.
A photo of a pigeon loafing comfortably on a cobblestone street
A photo of a hooded crow, up on a hill, viewed through the low-hanging leaves of a tree
Another very funky ear of corn. Probably also caused by corn smut but we didn't cut this one open. It looks a little like a bird of paradise flower, except it's corn
Two galls on an oak tree. They look sort of like nuts, but they definitely aren't acorns. Instead they are round and kind of bumpy
A really funky ear of corn. It is very short and round - clearly something has affected the growth of this ear
Corn smut, which is a type of gall that grows on corn. This ear of corn has a big group of them growing on it. They're sort of white and crusty looking
An amelanistic ("albino") corn snake. She is mostly white with some pale yellow patterning and red eyes. She is curled up on someone's hand
A wooly bear caterpillar moving at a rather fast clip through some grass
A photo of an elephant. The caption provided for this photo reads, "African Forest Elephant at The Mole National Park, Savannah Vegetation, Northern Ghana." Credit found in next post in thread
A tiny green and brown crab spider - maybe a Northern Crab Spider (Mecaphesa asperata)? - on the edge of a picnic table
A white tub with some water in it. There is a rock and 3 large-ish crayfish in it
A black Rat Snake curled up underneath a very large rock. You can just see it's little snoot as it peeks out at the viewer
A small black kitten standing in the corner of a bathroom, in front of a cabinet. She's a little scraggly