#NC Wildlife

[soibeanxgalactica]

#backyard turtle #turtle #orange turtle #north carolina wildlife #nc wildlife #wildlife #eastern box turtle #t. c. carolina

[t-0-b-y]

#birds #nc wildlife

[harkthorn]

Raccoon lineart!

Left the eyes white so people can colour them, but lol at the effect- OuO

Feel free to colour/use, but no commercial usage, and credit/links to see what you do are cool

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#art #sketch #daily sketch #traditional art #pitt pens #ink sketch #inked sketch #lineart #free to colour #non commercial #raccoon #raccoon art #wildlife #colour me in #color me in #free to color #CC BY-NC 4.0

[the-cricket-chirps]

N. C. Wyeth, Maine Headland, Black Head, Mohegan Island, circa 1936-1938

Andrew Wyeth, Clouds and Shadows, 1940

Jamie Wyeth, The Islander, 1975

#nc wyeth #andrew wyeth #jamie wyeth #american artist #american art #american painting #american painter #seascape #sea aesthetic #ocean aesthetic #ocean view #sea view #aesthetic #beauty #nature #animals #beautiful animals #wildlife #modern art #art history #aesthetictumblr #tumblraesthetic #tumblrpic #tumblrpictures #tumblr art #tumblrstyle #artists on tumblr

[earthanthem]

(via GIPHY)

#giphy #nature #jc property professionals #wildflower #yellow flower #wild flowers #world wildlife day #western nc

[hello-delicious-tea]

Deer I have known more intimately than I wanted to:

1. The fawn our extremely friendly to other animals dog greeted (startling her out of hiding) that I then had to pick up to rescue from the OTHER dogs who were very curious and MY dog who was ten pounds and full of Murder. It was extremely damp and covered in gravel bits and dirt. I put it back in the woods after getting my siblings to corral all the dogs inside.

2. The deer that screamed at me because it was hiding (badly) beside the road and I was walking softly and startled it. It was a hot summer day, it screamed, I screamed, that’s when I learned deer scream! Yay!

3. The peeing deer in Astoria. We were driving through there for our honeymoon and walked up the big hill to their nice tower thing. There was a deer. Peeing. For a very very long time. Did you know that lady deer squat to pee? Now you do! What a memorable deer that was.

#close encounters of the cervidae kind #wildlife #deer #I was reminded of this by that post about large mammals in the US that’s doing the rounds #also saw three adolescent bear triplets roll under some bushes next to a churchbushes #in a ritzy neighborhood in Western NC #but that’s neither here nor bear

[thesingingbullfrog]

Tiger Mimic (Tithorea harmonia). Road Trip: Museum of Life and Science Butterfly House, Durham,NC

#tiger mimic #tithorea harmonia #museum of life and science #butterflies #durham nc #wildlife photography #photographers on tumblr

[gardenstatehiker]

Little beasts popping up on my morning run. . . #nc #northcarolina #🦆 #obx #outerbanks #summer #vacation #duck #shore #ocean #wildlife #jellyfish (at Duck, North Carolina) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChR3SiqOhbc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#nc #northcarolina #🦆 #obx #outerbanks #summer #vacation #duck #shore #ocean #wildlife #jellyfish

[ncwortcunning]

POCOSIN LAKES NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, N.C. (WITN) - Two new families of red wolves have been released in an Eastern North Carolina wildlife refuge.

The Red Wolf Recovery Program announced the release on Thursday saying that the two families had been released into separate areas of the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge.

#NC #North Carolina #Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge #Red Wolves

[soibeanxgalactica]

I don't think I've shared this here (or maybe I did, idk), but I have a collapsed chicken coop in my backyard from the guys who lived here before me. A fox decided it'd be a nice, shady spot for a nap a couple months ago

I kept a safe distance and used the zoom on my camera to take these, and was sure to be careful not to startle it

#grey fox #gray fox #north carolina #wildlife #north carolina wildlife #nc wildlife

[pbbg]

We made another 🐢 friend the other day🥰 #boxturtlesofinstagram #mtnislandlake #nc #wildlife (at Mountain Island Lake) https://www.instagram.com/p/CijwFPzugPgvUgU7FiGhSKX7fY2JlWn7KvPszs0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#boxturtlesofinstagram #mtnislandlake #nc #wildlife

[vibinwiththefrogs]

Cane/Bamboo Adventures Part 1/?

So we just moved into a new house and there's this huge thing in the very back of the yard along a creek that I thought was bamboo, then I thought it was cane, and then after checking as many cane ID posts and videos I could find, I'm still completely unsure. My friend who's a wildlife student says it doesn't look like bamboo to her, but we both agree it doesn't look like the cane we've seen around South Georgia. She said it must be Arundinaria gigantea because no other cane gets this large, but all the cane we've seen identified as A. gigantea doesn't look like this. Here's my notes and some pics.

First, the leaves are much smaller than cane I've seen around here. Even very small, young cane around here has leaves about the length of my forearm.

Second, a couple things online I found distinguishing bamboo from cane say that new bamboo branches grow outward, while cane grows more upward. However there seems to be both upward and outward shoots on this bunch (examples of both pictured above). Also worth noting, the picture above on the left is the biggest diameter branch I found. I have relatively small hands for context (I wear small-medium sized gloves).

Then here's just some more pictures. I crawled down into a creek for the root picture (left)(a steep 7 foot drop haha). The middle picture is the youngest bunch I found, again it doesn't resemble cane I've seen around here. The picture on the right is a further away picture after I cleared some dead branches.

Also worth noting, this is tucked behind a house, between a fence, a creek, and like 3 trees. So it doesn't have a ton of space to grow, and I'm guessing that's why it's so dense.

If anyone happens to know anything about this please let me know! A week or so ago I emailed a guy from NC State and uploaded it on inaturalist, but I haven't received any replies or ID 😭

#I'm working on clearing out all the dead branches currently to give it more space #native plants #bamboo #cane #river cane #plant identification #plant ID #arundinaria gigantea #? #solarpunk

[rebeccathenaturalist]

Y'all know I'm a sucker for endangered species reintroduction stories, right? Especially when it's not a charismatic megafauna being highlighted. So of course I was excited when this headline crossed my dash.

The magnificent ramshorn (what a great name!), also known as Planorbella magnifica, is a tiny snail endemic to ponds and other quiet waterways in North Carolina's lower Cape Fear River basin. In fact, they were only known from four sites in the region. Due to plummeting numbers in its limited habitat, some of the last of these snails were removed from the wild to create an intensive captive breeding program. (It really doesn't take much to keep a snail happy in captivity once you figure out what conditions it needs.) The last wild individual was observed twenty years ago, and it is considered to be extinct in the wild.

That is, until now. Two thousand of these little reddish snails were released into a safe pond in Brunswick County. Researchers are using this as a way to observe how well these captive-bred snails adapt to their historic habitat, including successful reproduction. If all goes well, we can hope to see more reintroductions of these native mollusks back into their original range.

We nature nerds are biased, because we think everything in nature is awesome (yes, I'm even an apologist for mosquitoes!) So of course we get excited when a bunch of rare little snails get a second chance, because we understand how crucial each species is to its ecosystem. It can be tougher sometimes to sell the importance of this to the general public, who may question why it would be such a big deal for one snail species to go extinct. That's why I think it's so important for us to keep sharing our knowledge and--perhaps even more importantly--our enthusiasm for all these amazing beings. Keep being cheerleaders for critters like these snails, and your enthusiasm may end up being contagious!

#snails #ramshorn snails #magnificent ramshorn #molluscs #mollusks #gastropods #wildlife #animals #endangered species #habitat restoration #extinction #environment #conservation #nature #ecology #science #scicomm #North America

[amnhnyc]

Is that a mouse?🐭 Guess again: This pocket-sized critter is the western pygmy possum! (Cercartetus concinnus). One of the world’s smallest possums, this species typically weighs just 0.5 oz (13 grams)— the size of an AA battery. This dainty marsupial is a nectivore, meaning that its diet consists primarily of plant nectar. It inhabits treetops in forests throughout parts of southern Australia, using its long prehensile tail like a fifth limb as it moves from branch to branch. Photo: latcho, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist #nature #animals #amazinganimals #natureisawesome #wildlife https://www.instagram.com/p/CpiJrz6NSbo/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#nature #animals #amazinganimals #natureisawesome #wildlife

[thesingingbullfrog]

#white tailed deer #deer #rhododendron #nc mountains #forest #wildlife photography #nature photography #photographers on tumblr