Possible Erynnis baptisiae?
Dark and medium brown Skipper with small white spots.
There is a spreading patch of Crown Vetch about a meter from this spot.
Photos are very bad. I did not post them for that reason but I see on Vermont Entomology site that this may be a species being tracked. I'll add more bad photos of same observation.
Needs ID
Appears to have captured a caterpillar.
Found on a plate in he cupboard. small abdomen. It's very small. Abdomen is small and almost hidden under the rest of the body. The legs are delicate and beautifully marked. It looks as if a calligrapher decorated it. Finally found it in Common Spiders of N. America. (I just added a photo, I think you can see the spray of venom and glue being ejected!)
Noisy young ones in the yard this afternoon. There were at least two, possibly a third. This is the only one we could see.
Blue and violet bands on body.
There is a pair here.
Grouse with red over eye. Mossy habitat. On Hollingsworth Trail, Petit Manan Point, Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge.
Tiny Globular Collembola. Smaller than a poppy seed. Yellow black and red markings on head, reddish segmented antennae, marking like a cross on the back and yellow circle with black center at the rear end. Maybe D. minuta or D. ornata?
Female Boreus on snow. Prolonged beak with prong at the end. Glossy shine. Very cool.
On sandy beach wo days after storm with strong se winds. Living (breathing) 6" cucumber-shaped animal with seaweed-like fringe at one end, other end narrowed and then swelled alternately. Covered in sand so not sure of color. I'd like ID help, please.
A single blossom with small piece of stem attached found in pile of assorted rockweeds on the shore two days after a storm with strong se winds.
Flattened abdomen. Legs brown, mottled with dull yellow, dark spots, some dorsal white lines.
I'm assuming this is the only Flying squirrel in our area. But I don't know for sure.
This is a tenacious pink biofilm that has colonized my dishwasher.
"Dark FW with striking pattern of fragmented white lines". Large reniform spot is white with dark central crescent.
5 in total. Only one is thriving by seeking cover from mountain laurel. 2 have been pressed onto trail but are in good shape. 2 have the main stem squished onto the ground. 2 having insect bites.
Fly fisherman found this under a rock, thought darter but questioned snakehead juvenile
Distinctive black bird with yellowish and white markings and song. Nesting in field.
Very tiny, on fallen twig. "greenish gray with forked, divergent, stiff ascending lobes" <1 mm wide.
Leaves are revolute margined and white beneath.
Sandpiper with square head, large eyes. On blueberry barrens.
No black on wing-tips. Slightly smaller than Herring Gull. Black bill. I think this is a first winter bird.
This papaya tragically died in a forest fire the day after the first photo was taken. RIP.
Long necked, long beaked, long legged, iconic bird of tidal estuary.
Unbranched yellow "spindles" growing in a dense clump in mossy ground.
Growing on moss and decayed wood. Bright orange fragile fungus looks like it was stepped on and/or partially eaten by an animal. Large widely separate gills. Could it be Humidicutis marginata?
Round leaves with filaments.
Aprox. 2.5 inch (estimating). Light grayish background with orangish spots in pairs, one on either side of the dorsal midline. Light-color narrow mid-dorsal stripe. In Maine Amphibians & Reptiles, Carroll B. Knox essay says that "the most brightly colored toads are found in northern Maine." This one is in downeast coastal, Washington County, and it is the most colorful that I have seen.
White flower, stem rarely pink (according to Plants of Acadia Nat.Park). Upright when in fruit.
Pushing up through wet and decaying leaves, mostly Red Maple. This is/was a small seasonal puddle of water, almost big enough to be called a vernal "pool". About half an inch high. Fruitbody and "stem" have different texture and color.
"White FW has mosaic-like pattern of brown, blue and moss green in basal and ST areas".
Flowers white with purple anthers. Pedicels hairy (please see photo). Leaves simple, minutely toothed and undersides hairy (see photo) and with a row of dark glands on upper surface of midrib (see photo). Growing on exposed rocky top of Klondike Mt.
Pale blue with yellow eye on sleder erect peduncles. Leaves opposite, entire, mostly basal. (Plants of Acadia Nat.Pk.)
The only hummingbird in our area.