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Arañas Fantasmas Espinosas (Género Anyphaena)Observ.
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On a Jack-in-the-pulpit plant
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About 4 feet tall. About 15 fronds in the rosette. One of these large fronds was "interrupted" about half way up with some brown fertile pinnae.
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Flowers about 1 inch wide. Petals longer than sepals. Arching about 4 -4.5 feet tall. Stems angular and grooved. Hairs on the flower pedicels and peduncles are non-glandular.
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At the Long Island Pine Barrens, in an oak-pitch pine forest.
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Growing in a little marshy stream. Prominent vein visible on the leaf undersides. No lobes on the leaves. Leaves were very narrow, spear shaped at the tip.
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A stunning gall on Quercus alba. There were two of these galls on the same Quercus alba sapling
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Ganso Canadiense Mayor (Branta canadensis)Observ.
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Goslings! By a bus stop
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Geranium lucidumObserv.
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New to me.
Only the third iNat record so far in Manhattan!
Only six iNat records so far in NYC.
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Insectos Alados (Subclase Pterygota)Observ.
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Found this little creature on an Osmorhiza longistylis leaf. I'm not sure if this is an immature Neoxabea bipunctata or some other creature
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Silene stellataObserv.
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Upper leaves in whorls of 4, clasping the stem. The central point, where the leaves attach to the stem is brownish. Leaves are finely pubescent on the abaxial surface. The midrib is prominent on the abaxial surface. The leaves have a bit of a wrinkled appearance and the upper leaves have slightly ruffled / wavy margins. Stem is finely pubescent, reddish near the bottom. Lower leaves are in opposite pairs. Growing on the side of a trail in mostly deciduous woods.
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Agrito (Rhus aromatica)Observ.
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The fall leaves are spectacular
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Estrella de Belén (Ornithogalum umbellatum)Observ.
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Hiding amidst the mugwort
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Encinos Y Robles Rojos (Sección Lobatae)Observ.
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These baby leaves have the most stunning ruby red color!
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Vida (Vida)Observ.
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This damage is seen on Northern Spicebush all along paths here. Last two images show what is presumably the early stages of damage, slits in bark that then (presumably) widen into these sunken holes.
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Lindera benzoinObserv.
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Not sure what causes these pits in the trunk. A fungal infection? I've seen these symptoms before.
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Lindera benzoinObserv.
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Every spice bush I see is Diseased and dying throughout NYC. I urge plant pathologists to look into this
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Aves (Clase Aves)Observ.
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In the first audio clip, there is a mellifluous call, like a little flute, at second 15. I'm not sure who is making all the chattering sounds in the second audio clip.
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Zorzal Cola Canela (Catharus guttatus)Observ.
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The sound of a Hermit thrush singing in the rain.
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Encinos Y Robles Rojos (Sección Lobatae)Observ.
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Those baby leaves are the reddest I've seen on any oak species! Beautiful!
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I have never seen a gall like this before ! The dominant species of oak here are Q. alba, Q. coccinea and Q. ilicifolia. I guess this must be Q. alba, as that's one of the hosts that this wasp makes her galls on according to:
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A tiny mite crawling on an oak sapling (Bear oak probably)
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Picogordo Degollado (Pheucticus ludovicianus)Observ.
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What a shock to look out my window and see this!
I am not much of a birder, so I didn't even know what species it was! It is so very fancy-looking, like something you would see at the zoo!
I shot it through the fly screen, because I knew if I stood up and moved over for a clearer shot, it would be gone in a flash.
I do have black oil sunflower seed in my bird feeder which is attached to the large center pane of the same window, so maybe it ate some of those seeds...
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A beautiful female velvet ant, which despite the name, are actually wasps. The wingless females resemble ants.
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Lespedeza hirtaObserv.
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This is one of the erect Bush Clovers, rather than trailing. Very hairy stem. The leaves consist of three oval leaflets. Growing near a trail. These should have white flowers. Hopefully, I'll see them in the summer.
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This is the same fungus that I observed a few hours earlier, during the day. Now, after it has rained several times and it's the evening, the fungus has lost a bit of the blue color, but it's still just as beautiful. Some patches of this fungus lost their blue color altogether it seems (the last few photos) - they just look very pale now.
This fungus starts out blue when young, then turns a rose-lilac and finally a vinaceous ochre when mature. The fungus turns a vinaceous brown when mature.
A description of the macro and micro features of this fungus, along with other species of Chromelosporiopsis can be found in this paper:
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Growing on sand, on the edge of a trail. The most beautiful fungus (I think it's a fungus) that I have ever found!
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Culebra Parda (Storeria dekayi)Observ.
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@cesarcastillo handling the snake in the photos. The snake released a brown liquid (defecated) as a defense mechanism. We were gentle in handling the snake for a couple of minutes.
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These tiny critters were running around on the surface of a black, papillose crust fungus (order Xylariales) growing on Sassafras albidum.
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Escarabajos Y Parientes (Orden Coleoptera)Observ.
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Tiny beautiful beetles (1-1.5mm long). They were black, very shiny, with yellowish spots, sort of a tortoise shell look. They were exploring the crevices of a fallen Tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera)
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Cardenal Rojo (Cardinalis cardinalis)Observ.
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This Cardinal was busy eating Mugwort seeds. It's not an easy feat - the Cardinal must fly up from the ground and hover in the air to get a hold of some seeds. The second photo shows this maneuver.
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Magnolias, Margaritas Y Parientes (Dicotiledóneas) (Clase Magnoliopsida)Observ.
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Ugh, I hate it when I have no clue and neither does iNat :(
One of the suggestions was Magnolia acuminata though... which seems plausible
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These don't quite look like the typical American Winter Ant that I've seen. These seem to have a longer body, so I'm not sure what these are.
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Ribes aureumObserv.
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In someone's garden. The owner of the house came out, probably ready to call the police on the crazy guy loitering around his currant bush and taking photos. ;) I asked him if he had seen berries on these shrubs and he said that he hadn't. He didn't even think they were currant bushes. I suspect if there are no male plants nearby, then these bushes would never bear fruit, which might explain why he has never seen berries.
The flowers have a sweet smell. Five yellow petals and a red crown in the center of each blossom.
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Grosellas Y Capulincillos (Género Ribes)Observ.
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Maple-like leaves with three rounded lobes. The stem near the ground is woody, but higher up is more herbaceous. Alternate leaves. The stem and the leaf axils have long, white spreading hairs. The leaf undersides have hairs along the veins. The leaf margins are ciliate. Growing in deciduous woods, near a trail.
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Tribu GyponiniObserv.
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Two of the Carya tomentosa leaves were glued together into a sort of a pouch, and this critter was sitting on it.
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Spreading rapidly from a previously-identified population at the trailhead:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/61173046
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Neomida bicornisObserv.
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A tiny, dark green, shiny beetle eating a fungus (Trametes gibbosa). The beetle was about 2.5-3mm in length and maybe 1-1.5 in width.
