A Virginia Ctenucha caterpillar at Trustom Pond NWR.
A Gray Catbird at Trustom Pond NWR.
A worker Baldfaced Hornet on Hare Figwort (Scrophularia lanceolata) in Trustom Pond NWR.
A female Isabella Tiger Moth. Reared it from a caterpillar and released in Trustom Pond NWR.
A Phantom Cranefly at Great Swamp. Very ethereal as it glided across the ground.
A male-female pair of Vesper Bluets at Great Swamp MA.
A Sedge Sprite at Great Swamp MA.
A Six Spotted Orbweaver at Trustom Pond NWR.
A Northern Lined Seahorse in Potter Pond.
A Clapper Rail in the marsh at Potter Pond.
A male Sachem at Great Swamp MA.
A Mournful Thyris Moth at Great Swamp MA.
A female Juvenal's Duskywing at Great Swamp MA.
A Yellow-throated Vireo at Great Swamp MA.
A female Dot-tailed Whiteface at Great Swamp MA.
A female Harlequin Darner at Great Swamp MA.
A male Orchard Oriole at Trustom Pond NWR.
A male Boat-tailed Grackle at the Charlestown Breachway. A rare vagrant to RI. Besides the clear size difference, it did vocalize a bit to confirm the ID.
Photo 1: Boat-tailed Grackle (left) with a Common Grackle
Photo 2: Boat-tailed Grackle (left), Common Grackle (middle) and Red-winged Blackbird (right)
Photo 3: Common Grackle (left) and Boat-tailed Grackle (right)
A Sleepy Duskywing at Great Swamp MA.
A male Four Spotted Skimmer at Great Swamp MA.
Marsh Marigold at Trustom Pond NWR.
A Jumping Spider, Phidippus princeps, at Great Swamp MA.
Some Wood Anemone at Trustom Pond NWR.
A group of 7 Caspian Terns at Succotash Salt Marsh
A Hoverfly (Toxomerus geminatus) on a Wood Anemone blossom at Trustom Pond NWR.
A tagged Ring-billed Gull at Succotash Salt Marsh. The report says it's a male hatched in 2009 (or earlier) and was banded at Carson Beach in MA on 12/11/2012 (about 85 miles away).
A female Ringed Boghaunter at Great Swamp MA.
