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Detention Pond- Mid-May
By Mid-May, Pickerel Weed has grown well into the open water on the ponds, especially is "middle" pond. The blue flowers are yet…
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Forest Trail, South Eastern Boundary
It's Mid-May and the laves are fully out, although they have a bit of growth left in them. Animal activity is abundant throughout…
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Eastern Cottontail Rabbit (Sylvilagus floridanus)
This is the common rabbit throughout North Carolina. Lots of young are evident, and I think the Red Shouldered Hawks are also keep…
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Eastern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)
Squirrels are particularly abundant right now, also likely prey for the Red Shouldered Hawk and other raptors. I especially like t…
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Kamikazi Cardinal
I managed to trip the shutter just before the Cardinal male launched himself in my general direction from the fence post on which…
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Magnolia Bloom
By Mid-May, the Magnolia blossoms began to open high up in the tall trees.
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Eastern Towhee
This little guy was standing on the top of the fence post singing his lungs out. He was watching me as I approached, but didn't d…
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Happy Birthday
Neither COVID-19 nor rain deterred celebration of Stan Lettas' 90th.
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Bee at Work
The flowers, including this clover bloom, have brought on the bees.
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Cope's Gray Tree Frog
Here is the Cope's Gray Tree Frog where it belongs, in a tree instead of on our balcony rail or in a balcony flower pot. This guy…
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Rose
One of the flowers in the Rose Garden the Galloway inner courtyard.
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Eastern Towhee
Yet one more Towhee. They seem abundant on the Galloway Grounds this year.
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Seed Pods
going to even try to identify this plant, although I suspect it is in the Aster family. I especially liked the feathery nature of…
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Galloway Ridge's Tobacco Barn
A focal point along the forest trails on the west side of the Galloway Ridge property is the reamians of an old tiler-brick constr…
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Lantana
The planters and some of the beds at the Main Entrance of Galloway have been planed with arrangements including Lantana. They are…
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Another Unknown Yellow Flower
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Red Clover (Trifolium pratense) Tentative ID
This may be a Red Clover. These flowers are abundant in mid-May around the detention ponds on the south side. Red clover was broug…
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Eastern Bluebird
Likely a younger bird. Interested in what I was doing.
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Dogbane Beetle (Chrysochus auratus)
I am reasonably confident in the identification here. The Dogbane Beetles mate and lay eggs through the summer. Eggs are laid leav…
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Dogbane Beetle
Another view of the shiny, iredescent elytra (wing casing) and thorax.
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Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)
This female bird was calmly walking through the field of the horse farm south of, and adjacent to, Galloway Ridge as she pecked at…