Sheltered Heron
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Sheltered Heron
Categories: Night Gallery • Tags: Audubon House, concrete, Heron, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, Wind
Tag: Audubon House
Box Turtle at Audubon House
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A Box Turtle stops a moment from walking through the breezeway at Audubon House at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area. It seemed very curious about the place.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Audubon House, Box Turtle, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, Terrapene carolina bauri
Moth of Mystery
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A small moth adhering to the wall next to the office door at Audubon House. Resting during the day, the adventurous life of the moth takes place mostly at night.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Audubon House, Moth, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
Woodpecker Wednesday
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A female Pileated Woodpecker seen hard at work foraging for insects by tearing the bark off the old oak trees in front of Audubon House. Her raucous pounding and all the debris falling to the ground were hard to miss, which made her easy to find. Dryocopus pileatus about to fly away.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Audubon House, Dryocopus pileatus, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, Pileated Woodpecker
Purple Eye
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Zebra Longwing butterfly in the Audubon House pollinator garden at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA).
Categories: Nature • Tags: Audubon House, butterfly, Heliconius charitonia, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, Zebra Longwing
Florida State Butterfly
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Zebra Longwing butterfly, designated the state butterfly of Florida in 1996, in the Audubon House pollinator garden at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA).
Categories: Nature • Tags: Audubon House, butterfly, Heliconius charitonia, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, Zebra Longwing
Slacker Squirrel
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Not looking obviously comfortable but it must be to this Eastern Gray Squirrel who found a spot to relax using the perch on the large bird house outside of Audubon House at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA). It probably helps that he is near two large bird feeders in which the messy birds are always dropping seeds from much to the squirrel’s benefit.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Audubon House, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, Sciurus carolinensis, squirrel
Orange For Life
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A Gulf Fritillary, its proboscis rolled up, relaxes in the Sun in the Audubon House pollinator garden.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Agraulis vanillae, Audubon House, Gulf Fritillary, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
A new spider in the garden
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A rather formidable looking but harmless spider, Leucauge argyra, has taken up residence in the Audubon House vegetable garden, a demonstration garden of the square-foot gardening technique. This spider is welcomed in most gardens since the species eats mainly insects harmful to plants and people, especially mosquitoes, which makes for the best natural pest control. Leucauge argyra is noted for being colonial with others of its species building nests nearby. This one particular individual appears to be alone at the […]
Categories: Nature • Tags: Audubon House, Leucauge argyra, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, Spider
Pollen Overload #2
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A carpenter bee laden with pollen on a gaillardia flower in the Audubon House pollinator garden at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA).
Categories: Nature • Tags: Audubon House, Carpenter Bee, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, Pollen
