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Very active and vocal sea lion colony!

Butterfly in Yosemite National Park

Incredible Sequoia grove in Yosemite

Doe and fawn

Dark-eyed juncos?

A beaver swimming in Lily Pond along the Appalachian Trail

Yellow?

Aka bibilava lateralis

Very plentiful in Gorham, especially on the USM Gorham Campus and by roadsides.

Chronologically, the second of four ring-tailed lemur groups we encountered in Anja.

Group of ring-tailed lemurs at Anja!

What species of fern is this?

What butterfly is this?

Quite plentiful on the edge of Tannery Brook in this area.

Garter snake crossing the road in Gorham

A group of Madagascar wagtails on a ravenala. Unmistakable: plumage gray above, yellow belly, white chest with black band, also characteristic "tree-oo" call much in evidence.

Two young lowland streaked tenrecs-likely twins!

There were two, in the bamboo forest among a Prolemur simus group. We saw them mating, indicating a healthy pygmy kingfisher population in the area, although no picture was taken of this

Two small chameleons, found together in the foothills of Vatovavy, of the same species. They look to me like B. superciliaris.

Known locally as "lapata"

Another ring-tailed lemur encounter at Anja!

Greater hedgehog tenrec!!!! A juvenile, striped sokina

Fenale ring-tailed vontsira, with noticeably darker tail than the male in the previous observation

Cool butterfly around Vatovavy

ID confirmed by local guide

A second U. phantasticus, this one a juvenile! Ranomafana wonders.

Golden bamboo lemurs, Wright's marvels, in the Talatakely Forest of Ranomafana National Park!!!! Identity solidly confirmed by local guides

Two red-bellied lemurs playing in a tree at Ranomafana. ID confirmed by local guide.

Varecia variegata editorum-we saw 3 individuals at Ranomafana National Park! Unmistakable

Absolutely stunning male and female giraffe-necked weevils at Ranomafana

A family of Milne-Edward's sifakas huddled against the rain in Ranomafana. ID confirmed by local guide.

Satanic leaf-tailed gecko! iD confirmed by local guides. Ranomafana is amazing.

Cuckoo-roller!!! ID confirmed by local guide

Sweet-smelling leaves used locally in teas

Crested drongo (only all-black bird in Madagascar)

Male Madagascar green sunbird drinking from a ravenala flower

Magpie-robin: black passerine with white wing stripe

Kite (or crab) spider

Baneberry in Standish

Some sort of large bird, but sitting for a rather extended period on the ground.

White wildflowers in Point Cabrillo SHP

Monarch caterpillar in Gorham

Foliose lichen?

Seed bug captured indoors

Necrotic arthropod with orange bands on wing-cases

White-tailed doe in Gorham

Conifer at Olmsted Point, Yosemite National Park

Steller's Jay near Lower Yosemite Falls

4 ramets in T2 Q0

With dark-eyed junco

Extremely plentiful

White stripes on the back of the wings

Yellow patch under the wings