המועדפים של katyswiere

Rock Creek Piney Branch Specimen again.
Wild, just downhill from trail.

I’m stumped by this. Leaves seem too large for Spirea. Alternate not opposite which rules out viburnums and mock oranges. Do you know @katy_swiere? I was with you at Piney Branch.

Zabulon Skipper

(Photinus carolinus) Big Run Road, Garrett County, Maryland. July 14, 2023. At UV light.

8mm, a 0.3 second yellow flash with 4 second intervals. swamp/marsh with lots of cattails.

Rock Creek Park, Washington DC. I've intentionally enlarged the circle to obscure the exact location—this is the only hepatica plant I've found in the park.

Citrine forktail; Huntley Meadows; 9/8/18

Swamp darner; Huntley Meadows; 6/6/21

Black saddlebags, female; Huntley Meadows; 9/7/14

On grape

Behavioral note: individual could freely travel upwards and downwards on vertical surfaces with head above feet, unlike many woodpeckers that fly down then climb back up