A male/female pair of Eastern Forktails at Trustom Pond NWR. The female is still in the red phase.
A White-rumped Sandpiper at Napatree Point. The uninterrupted white rump patch is clearly visible in Photo 1 along with the orange base of the lower mandible and the streaked flanks. Photo 2 shows the relative size difference with a couple of Semipalmated Sandpipers.
Some Roseate Terns at Napatree Point. Dark bills (early in breeding season) with red-orange legs and long, forked tails.
A Predaceous Diving Beetle (Acilius mediatus) in a large puddle along Schoolhouse Pond Trail.
One of many Six Spotted Green Tiger Beetles along Schoolhouse Pond Trail.
A group of four Purple Martins moved into my neighbor's birdhouse.
A Louisiana Waterthrush near Barden Reservoir.
A male Black Purseweb Spider on the road next to Barden Reservoir in Scituate, RI.
An Eastern Eyed Click Beetle on the road next to Barden Reservoir in Scituate, RI.
An Emerald Euphoria (most likely the Euphoria fulgida fulgida subspecies) on the road next to Barden Reservoir in Scituate, RI.
One of the Net-winged Beetles, Caenia dimidiata. When I was taking the photo I thought this was a Black-and-yellow Lichen Moth. There is a spider crawling under its wings.
A Six-spotted Fishing Spider on the surface of Farm Pond in Trustom Pond NWR.
A Northern Water Snake at Trustom Pond NWR. Maybe 2.5 feet in length.
A male Lawrence's Warbler, which is actually a Blue-winged x Golden-winged Warbler hybrid (Vermivora [cyanoptera x chrysoptera]), at Trustom Pond NWR. It was with a typical looking and sounding Blue-winged Warbler. The voice sounded to me like a modified Blue-winged Warbler, where the "bee" in "bee-buzz" was more modulated. However, a more experienced birder who reported it separately said it sounded more Golden-winged Warbler-like. I've read that the hybrids can sometimes sing both songs.
Vermivora lawrencei refers to this hybrid, but I wasn't sure if it is really valid and I didn't know how to enter recognized crosses into iNat.
A Gray Treefrog in Trustom Pond NWR. As far as I know and according to RIDEM, we don't get Cope's here.
A Gold-and-brown Rove Beetle on some scat in Francis C. Carter Memorial Preserve. It was almost an inch long and was lifting its yellow tipped abdomen in the air. There were about 6 American Carrion Beetles and a Duskywing also on the same pile of scat.
A Mournful Thyris Moth on some scat at Francis C. Carter Memorial Preserve.
This White Corporal landed on the ground near me while hiking through the woods at Francis C. Carter Memorial Preserve. I think this is an immature male.
A singing male Yellow Warbler at Trustom Pond NWR.
A Spotted Lady Beetle eating pollen from a Common Buttercup in Trustom Pond NWR.
A Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle at Trustom Pond NWR.
A Rose-breasted Grosbeak at John H. Chafee Nature Preserve (Rome Point).
Sessile Bellwort, I think, in Trustom Pond NWR.
A Red-spotted Newt swimming in Trustom Pond NWR's Farm Pond
A Blue-winged Warbler in Trustom Pond NWR.
A Great Crested Flycatcher high in a tree singing at Trustom Pond NWR.
