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Sweet Joe-Pye-Weed (Eutrochium purpureum)Observer
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Probably dry joe pye weed by ranger station
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Yellow Garden Spider (Argiope aurantia)Observer
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Garden spider at butterfly garden
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Two-colored Bolete (Baorangia bicolor)Observer
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A mushroom of some description. Picnic area behind gazebo at Wolf Trap meadow
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Eastern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)Observer
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A squirrel in the Wolf trap park
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Northern Watersnake (Nerodia sipedon ssp. sipedon)Observer
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Northern watersnake a day after it shed its old skin
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Barred Owl (Strix varia)Observer
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Barred owl above the pond bench in the Wolf Trap park
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Barred Owl (Strix varia)Observer
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Barred owl at the entrance to wetlands of Wolf Trap
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Common Watersnake (Nerodia sipedon)Observer
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Two young watersnakes close to gazebo bridge
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Pennsylvania Blackberry (Rubus pensilvanicus)Observer
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Blackberry bush at the entrance to lot 4 at Wolf Trap
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Common Watersnake (Nerodia sipedon)Observer
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This male is trying to strike up a conversation with the resting female
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Northern Watersnake (Nerodia sipedon ssp. sipedon)Observer
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Watersnake guarding the residential bridge just outside the Wolf Trap National Park
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Northern Watersnake (Nerodia sipedon ssp. sipedon)Observer
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Warning: these photos contain adult situations and may not be suitable for all audiences (watersnake party ten feet upstream from gazebo bridge)
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Northern Watersnake (Nerodia sipedon ssp. sipedon)Observer
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This is one of Wolf Trap’s watersnakes (Joan of the Park) and some of her suitors about ten feet upstream from Gazebo bridge
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Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus)Observer
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Three vultures at the first sharp bend when you go from the pond bridge to the ridge trail
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Green Heron (Butorides virescens)Observer
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Some water bird at wolf trap pond, probably Virginia Rail
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Eastern Copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix)Observer
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Copperhead at the pond trail, conveniently positioned about twenty steps from its own photo on an info board
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Northern Watersnake (Nerodia sipedon ssp. sipedon)Observer
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Probably watersnake in driftwood by children’s theater
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Frost's Bolete (Exsudoporus frostii)Observer
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Some kind of mushroom