E (outdoor edition)
Making bird plans.
@bennygesserit.bsky.social nature photography alt.
DC metro area. Most photos taken on a Nikon d3500.
- An Eastern Grey Squirrel getting in a little bit more work before the sun sets. (1 December 2025 / Pickering Creek Audubon Center / Easton, Maryland, USA)
- American Kestrel (female) on the lookout for a meal. 🪶 (1 December 2025 / Frazier Neck Road / Preston, Maryland, USA)
- Big bunch of Eastern Jack-o'-lantern mushrooms. 🎃🍄 Besides their orange color, they earn their name by way of their bioluminescent gills, which are thought to glow to attract insects, which will then spread the mushroom's spores. (13 October 2025 / Rock Creek Park / Washington, DC, USA)
- Male Pileated Woodpecker hanging upside down, high up in (what I believe is) a serviceberry tree. 🪶 (15 November 2025 / near C&O Canal Lock 25 / Poolesville, Maryland, USA)
- Turkey Vultures with the remains of a White-tailed Deer. (By the way, "buzzard" is a misnomer! Buzzards are a completely different type of bird that don't even live on the North American continent.) 🪶 (14 November 2025 / River Road / Potomac, Maryland, USA)
- Cedar Waxwing showing off its matchsticks while grabbing the last berries of the season. 🪶 (16 November 2025 / near C&O Canal Lock 25 / Poolesville, Maryland, USA)
- Juvenile American Kestrel (male) looking every part the sleepy teenager who just rolled out of bed and is looking for something to eat. 🪶 (10 October 2025 / Federal St. & N. Highland Ave. / Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
- Barred owl grooming, taking a break from asking the age-old questions "Who cooks? Who cooks for you?" 🪶 (11 October 2025 / Sligo Creek Parkway / Takoma Park, Maryland, USA)
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- A yellow-crowned night heron holding its wings out, a pose thought to be thermoregulation and/or to kill parasites on their wings. 🪶 (4 July 2025 / Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens / Washington, DC, USA)
- Cinnabar chanterelles like tiny flames. (13 July 2025 / Rock Creek Park / Washington, DC, USA)
- A few recent frogs. 🐸 (14 September 2025 / Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge / Cambridge, Maryland, USA)
- Forster's terns with winter/non-breeding plumage. During the summer/breeding season, the top of their heads down to their eyes are jet black. 🪶 (14 September 2025 / Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge / Cambridge, Maryland, USA)
- This broad-winged hawk swooped right in front of my car as I was slowly down a dirt road, landing about 10 feet away in a tree. I was thankful it was patient and brave as I grabbed my camera from the back seat. 🪶 (19 September 2025 / Eastern Neck National Wildlife Refuge / Rock Hill, Maryland, USA)
- Monarch butterfly on some late-season yellow crownbeard. 🦋 (19 September 2025 / Eastern Neck National Wildlife Refuge / Rock Hall, Maryland, USA)
- A common watersnake catching some rays. 🐍 (22 September 2025 / Marshy Point Nature Center / Middle Point, Maryland, USA)
- A hummingbird clearwing moth on swamp milkweed. 🦋 From my first film-only nature outing! Taken on a Canon AE-1, 50mm f/1.8, 1/500, Fujifilm 400 color negative. (5 August 2025 / Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens / Washington, DC, USA)
- A common buckeye in a bed of boneset. (1 September 2025 / Occoquan Bay National Wildlife Refuge / Woodbridge, Virginia, USA)
- A great spangled fritillary on field(?) thistle. 🦋 (1 September 2025 / Occoquan Bay National Wildlife Refuge / Woodbridge, Virginia, USA)
- A sunny Western Honey Bee. (11 July 2025 / McKee-Beshers Wildlife Management Area / Poolesville, Maryland, USA)
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- A watchful Tree Swallow (male) rests atop a cattail (also known as bulrush). (1 June 2025 / Jug Bay Wetland Sanctuary / Lothian, Maryland, USA)
- Trooping Crumble Cap mushrooms, also known as Fairy Inkcap, have 143 mating types (the fungal equivalent of sexes). Each mating type can reproduce with members of any of the other 142 mating types! These tiny troopers often carpet dead wood. (14 July 2025 / Rock Creek Park / Washington, DC, USA)
- Swamp Milkweed in bloom, and a Monarch Butterfly caterpillar dining on it. (21 July 25 / Huntley Meadows Park / Alexandria, Virginia, USA)
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- A super chill Fowler's toad that was hanging out on a log in the forest. A+ pal. 🐸 (21 July 2025 / Huntley Meadows Park / Alexandria, Virginia, USA)
- Old man (men?) of the woods. 🍄 (21 July 2025 / Huntley Meadows Park / Alexandria, Virginia, USA)
- This common eastern bumble bee was absolutely lost in the swamp rose mallow pollen sauce, resting at the opening for a while, just snackin on pollen and grooming itself. 🐝🌺 (21 July 2025 / Huntley Meadows Park / Alexandria, Virginia, USA)
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- Eastern Carpenter Bee grabbing a snack on some Wild Teasel. (11 July 2025 / McKee-Beshers Wildlife Management Area / Poolesville, Maryland, USA)
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- Huron sachem butterflies from this weekend. Plant IDs in alt text. 🦋 (4 & 6 July 2025 / Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens / Washington, DC, USA)
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- A yellow-crowned night heron tossing back a crawfish snack whole. 🪶🦞 (4 July 2025 / Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens / Washington, DC, USA)
- A wetlands giant wolf spider carrying her hatchlings on her back. (6 July 2025 / Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Garden / Washington, DC, USA)
- Pond slider popping out of the duckweed. (4 July 2025 / Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Garden / Washington, DC, USA)
