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Trout Lilies © Dave Spier Trout Lilies ( Erythronium americanum ) are early-blooming woodland wildflowers. They're rather small,...

Ring-necks -- © Dave Spier If you’re familiar with the male Ring-necked Pheasant (named for the white collar encircling its n...

Blister Beetle, a.k.a. "oil beetle," Meloe sp., on moss Blister Beetle -- © Dave Spier Here’s an insect worth knowing if ...

American Woodcock at Assateague National Seashore - © Dave Spier American Woodcock -- © Dave Spier I am alive and well, but again ...

 Pair of Mourning Doves on the snow at the Montezuma Audubon Center I call them "bobble-head...

One of the Eastern Gray Squirrels visiting the feeders at Beaver Lake Nature Center  -- © Dave Spier Beaver Lake -- © Dave Spier ...

I'd say this is an adult tan-morph White-throat based on The Sibley Guide to Birds , page 494. White-throated Sparrows begin retu...