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Mycteria americana

nobody@flickr.com (no thneeds needed) — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:05:09 -0700

Wood Stork

Taken during a very overcast morning at Watermelon Pond Preserve (Gladman Tract), a county-owned preservation land.

Troglodytes aedon

nobody@flickr.com (no thneeds needed) — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:39:45 -0800

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House Wren

...just shy of sunset.

Melospiza georgiana

nobody@flickr.com (no thneeds needed) — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 07:36:39 -0700

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Swamp Sparrow

...looking rather handsome in dawn light.

Setophaga pinus

nobody@flickr.com (no thneeds needed) — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 08:43:16 -0700

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Pine Warbler (bright male)

From the "More Than Your Really Wanted To Know Department"...

Until recently [i.e., until publication in 2011 of the "52nd Supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Check-list of North American Birds" in The Auk 128(3):600-613], the Pine Warbler's Latin name was Dendroica pinus. Based largely on recent analyses of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA, the genus Dendroica, as we knew it, is no more. As noted on page 608 of the referenced publication:

"Under the heading Genus SETOPHAGA Swainson, insert the following:
Notes.—Phylogenetic analyses of sequences of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA (Lovette et al. 2010) indicate that all species formerly placed in Dendroica, one species formerly placed in Wilsonia (citrina), and two species formerly placed in Parula (americana and pitiayumi) form a clade with the single species traditionally placed in Setophaga (ruticilla). The generic name Setophaga has priority for this clade."

So, it seems our familiar Pine Warbler (formerly Dendroica pinus) is now officially treated as Setophaga pinus. Of course, I'm assuming everyone on the receiving end of this is as keenly interested in the recent taxonomic turn as am I. Yeah, right! Whatever, it's still a Pine Warbler.

Sitta pusilla

nobody@flickr.com (no thneeds needed) — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 08:08:01 -0700

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Brown-headed Nuthatch

Enallagma doubledayi

nobody@flickr.com (no thneeds needed) — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:50:37 -0700

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Atlantic Bluet (male)

Danaus plexippus

nobody@flickr.com (no thneeds needed) — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 03:52:55 -0700

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Monarch

Leptysma marginicollis

nobody@flickr.com (no thneeds needed) — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 05:37:27 -0700

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Cattail Toothpick Grasshopper

Leptysma marginicollis

nobody@flickr.com (no thneeds needed) — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 05:21:00 -0700

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Cattail Toothpick Grasshopper

Xylocopa virginica

nobody@flickr.com (no thneeds needed) — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:36:26 -0700

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Eastern Carpenter Bee (male)

Egretta thula

nobody@flickr.com (no thneeds needed) — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:55:44 -0800

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Snowy Egret

Sciurus carolinensis

nobody@flickr.com (no thneeds needed) — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:00:56 -0700

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Eastern Gray Squirrel

Dendroica coronata

nobody@flickr.com (no thneeds needed) — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:54:24 -0700

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Yellow-rumped Warbler

Spizella pusilla

nobody@flickr.com (no thneeds needed) — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 07:30:51 -0700

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Field Sparrow

Orthemis ferruginea

nobody@flickr.com (no thneeds needed) — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:21:51 -0700

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Roseate Skimmer (immature male)

Automeris io

nobody@flickr.com (no thneeds needed) — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:40:54 -0700

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Io Moth

Not really happy with the lighting/exposure on this, but it took me an hour and twenty minutes to get this pose. Therefore, I'm going with it.

I may have been a bit hasty in my previous comments about leaving Flickr...I just realized I recently paid them for another year of membership. As luck would have it, I did this just before the format changes. So you're stuck with me for another year. Maybe by that time I'll have figured out the mapping tool and how not to get dropped in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of West Africa when I zoom out.

And what's up with the softening effect? I used to be able to post low res, save-for-web versions and have them still look fairly sharp. Am I going to have to start posting an oversharpened version just to compensate?

Grrrrr!

Odocoileus virginianus

nobody@flickr.com (no thneeds needed) — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 13:28:42 -0700

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Early Morning Doe

Papilio troilus

nobody@flickr.com (no thneeds needed) — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:50:50 -0700

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Spicebush Swallowtail (male)

Metcalfa pruinosa

nobody@flickr.com (no thneeds needed) — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:27:03 -0700

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citrus flatid planthopper

Ormenoides venusta

nobody@flickr.com (no thneeds needed) — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:22:59 -0700

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flatid planthopper

A darker background would have made a much better image, but it wasn't to be. This was posed to the extent that I waved a finger in the vicinity of the lower animal to get it to move around the stem into the same plane as the upper.