Fluffy blue jay on cold winter day
The Mallard Murderer returns
This observation is part of a long-term project examining plankton biodiversity in the nearshore waters around the Hakai Institute's Quadra Island ecological observatory. A COI DNA sequence from the organism has been deposited in the Barcode of Life Data System (BOLD). Photo license and credit belong to the Hakai Institute.
Eating what appears to be a fish in the top of the southern red oak in our yard on Bodkin Creek. A juvenile looked on.
Provisional name = [Syllidae] sp. 1
Photo CC-BY-NC-SA license and credit and taxonomic work belongs to the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH).
This observation is a part of the long-term monitoring efforts of Gustav Paulay and his team at FLMNH and Friday Harbor Labs.
Although this observation also falls within the boundaries of the MarineGEO iNaturalist umbrella project (which is an ongoing collaborative work between MarineGEO and the Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, the Florida Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History Museum, and our network partners), this is not from a MarineGEO specific campaign.
Photo CC-BY-NC-SA license and credit and taxonomic work belongs to the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH).
This observation is a part of the long-term monitoring efforts of Gustav Paulay and his team at FLMNH and Friday Harbor Labs.
Although this observation also falls within the boundaries of the MarineGEO iNaturalist umbrella project (which is an ongoing collaborative work between MarineGEO and the Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, the Florida Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History Museum, and our network partners), this is not from a MarineGEO specific campaign.
Photo CC-BY-NC-SA license and credit, and taxonomic work, belongs to the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH).
This observation is a part of the long-term monitoring efforts of Gustav Paulay and his team at FLMNH and Friday Harbor Labs.
Although this observation also falls within the boundaries of the MarineGEO iNaturalist umbrella project (which is an ongoing collaborative work between MarineGEO and the Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, the Florida Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History Museum, and our network partners), this is not from a MarineGEO specific campaign.
Photo CC-BY-NC-SA license and credit and taxonomic work belongs to the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH).
This observation is a part of the long-term monitoring efforts of Gustav Paulay and his team at FLMNH and Friday Harbor Labs.
Although this observation also falls within the boundaries of the MarineGEO iNaturalist umbrella project (which is an ongoing collaborative work between MarineGEO and the Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, the Florida Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History Museum, and our network partners), this is not from a MarineGEO specific campaign.
Photo CC-BY-NC-SA license and credit, and taxonomic work, belongs to the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH).
This observation is a part of the long-term monitoring efforts of Gustav Paulay and his team at FLMNH and Friday Harbor Labs.
Although this observation also falls within the boundaries of the MarineGEO iNaturalist umbrella project (which is an ongoing collaborative work between MarineGEO and the Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, the Florida Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History Museum, and our network partners), this is not from a MarineGEO specific campaign.
The strawberry thief.
Torn between Redbreast and Green Sunfish.
I thought this was a shell at first, but it was soft. A full was pecking at it.
Came with a group of House Finches
Observations are being conducted by a refuge volunteer in coordination with USFWS. No public access in hunt unit.
Small Osprey lands on a tree at the Black Water National Wildlife Refuge
Was exploring a large “den cave” I stumbled across while looking for herps, and was surprised to find these two fluff balls about 30ft in. After the flash from this photo, they started huffing and puffing so I left. I also didn’t want to run into any mature ones!
Fledgling at base of tree with Adult male & female Baltimore Orioles while I was being scolded by the female.
Photo CC-BY-NC-SA license and credit and taxonomic work belongs to the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH).
This observation is a part of the long-term monitoring efforts of Gustav Paulay and his team at FLMNH and Friday Harbor Labs.
Although this observation also falls within the boundaries of the MarineGEO iNaturalist umbrella project (which is an ongoing collaborative work between MarineGEO and the Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, the Florida Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History Museum, and our network partners), this is not from a MarineGEO specific campaign.
1 pair and several singing males
Saw one adult at the nest.
Two Clapper Rails rescued from the crab pots in the background.
At entrance to bird house.
Copulation. A second copulation was observed (photo attached) by the same pair later that afternoon.
Eagle caused osprey to drop fish over water and then osprey turned on eagle and chased it away. Net result: no fish for either bird.
I think this bird is albino rather than leucistic due to its red eye. The light-colored bill suggests that this is a juvenile.
There is a nice discussion of the terminology for birds lacking some or all melanin on David Sibley's website.
65 Northern Cardinals counted.