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Washes up on the shore. It was at the edge of the water which was higher than seen in the aerial photo.
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Minuca minaxמתצפת.ת
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Found dead and dried about 30 feet away from the marsh edge. Fiddler crab populations are dense along the edges of these marshes.
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אופסום וירג'יניה (Didelphis virginiana)מתצפת.ת
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Note the epipubic bones still in place on the pelvis in photo #3.
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סולה מצויה (Morus bassanus)מתצפת.ת
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An adult Northern Gannet that apparently died over the winter.
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לוטרה צפון-אמריקנית (Lontra canadensis)מתצפת.ת
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This is a pile of river otter scat on a dead tree snag next to a salt marsh creek. Fiddler crabs are abundant around this tree, but the otter had eaten a juvenile stone crab from the tidal creek. A family of otter has been observed at this location on multiple occasions.
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I unknowingly stepped on an Eastern Glass Lizard in duff under Andropogon growing in the center of an ATV trail. I noticed thrashing in the grass and found this tail. It thrashed back and forth vigorously for several (3-5) minutes and gradually slowed down, but did not completely stop for 8-10 minutes. I never saw the lizard. Note the 4 distinct symmetrical pairs of muscle bundles that each narrow to even-length blunt tips.
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Sorex fumeusמתצפת.ת
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This is a brown young-of-the-year Smoky Shrew. The adults are darker gray (smoky). At 107 mm total length and 6.2 grams, this is larger than the similar Masked Shrew, Sorex cinereus, and more robust.
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I have seen several adult male Long-tailed Weasels in MA with a remaining white band of fur above the black at the end of the tail. This has lingered from the winter white, or partially white, coat color. In MA, Long-tailed Weasels seldom get a full white (with black tail tip) winter coat.
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Found dead on the side of a road, having been dropped by a predator, as often happens with shrews.
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שונר מצוי (Lynx rufus)מתצפת.ת
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My wife and I watched this Bobcat for 10-15 minutes as it wandered around just inside the woods behind the house. Our views were better than the cell phone photos suggest.
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סמרן צפון אמריקאי (Erethizon dorsatum)מתצפת.ת
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There was just over a foot of snow last night, but sunny skies today. This porcupine was trying to climb a bank that was just too steep. Finally it went 20 feet farther down the road, but still struggled to plow through the snow to get up the slope and over a rock wall.
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Several found in decomposing wood and leaves under a tree by a small canal. Each line on the rule is 1 mm.
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Two live snails found under palm fronds on the ground. About 30 dead shells found on the bank of a small canal. Neonates and juvenile shells sifted from decomposing wood and leaf litter under a tree by the canal.
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One dead adult found under layers of decomposing bark around the base of a large standing dead tree on the high sandy bank of the Neuse River.
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Two found under layers of decomposing bark around the base of a large standing dead tree on the high sandy bank of the Neuse River.