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Clusters of bell shaped flowers with color ranging from blue to purple.
Photographed in Nisqually National Wildlife ...
Cluster of mushrooms tucked under a dead tree trunk.
Photographed in Nisqually National Wildlife ...
Seen at Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, ...
Photographed at the Nisqually National ...
Non breeding plumage. Juveniles have a lighter chest - like the one on the left.
Breeding plumage. Males have a green mask around its eyes.
Brightly colored caterpillar, about 2.5 cm long.
Unidentified beetle of the weevil family (Curculionidae). About 1.5 cm long.
This is the male Hooded merganser in his breeding plumage.
Drying feathers and preening (pic3) after bath.
I always find these large wading birds at this refuge. Nice wispy plumage on ...
Foraging in the shallow tidal influenced estuary waters. Females are are ...
A saw several breeding pairs showing their breeding plumage. A small dabbling ...
The largest frog in North America, Green to yellow above with random mottling ...
Rather small beetle, though not tiny. The flower (thimbleberry, Rubus ...
Dark colored frog, about 8-9cm (3.5 in).
Restricted to dabbling in shallow waters Wigeon's are known to steal food from ...
The largest of the American Herons. Slate blue body and neck with a black and ...
Drake in his breeding plumage. The second pic shows the shoveler rotating or ...
trail at Nisqually National Wildlife ...
Dark hood on the head, upperparts are dark bluish grey, the contrasting chest ...
Blue top of head and back, white underparts and cheeks, dark grey eye stripe ...
A mating pair. These medium sized dabblers are characterized by their round ...
Large green frogs with prominent eyes that have brown irises and horizontal, ...
The male in breeding plumage has bright wings, a bright iridescent-green head ...