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Callen Harty @callenh.bsky.social · 23h

Painted turtle. #PaintedTurtle #ChrysemysPicta #Turtle #Reptile #Animal #Nature #Photography #UniversityOfWisconsinArboretum #Madison #Wisconsin

A painted turtle out of the water. It is standing on a pile of small rocks. The turtle is mostly a dull green on the top of its shell, with red edging and red on the lines of its shell. Its head is sticking out of the shell and is also a dull green, with some light green stripes on the neck. The legs are black with red dots on top and a red stripe on the side. Red can also be seen around the edge of the bottom shell.

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Callen Harty @callenh.bsky.social · 1d

Willet. #Willet #TringaSemipalmata #Sandpiper #Shorebird #Bird #Animal #Nature #Photography #HoneymoonIsland #Florida

A willet walking along the beach. The bird is facing left and is walking along some sand at the edge of the water. Behind it is water with a large number of rocks sticking up. The bird is stout. Its breast is white with some markings on it and the feathers are a greyish brown. It has dark legs and the right one is lifted up as it walks. It has a long black bill and a black eye with a white eye ring. There is also a white streak going from the top of the eye to the bill and a dark line under that.

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Callen Harty @callenh.bsky.social · 3d

Hermit thrush. #HermitThrush #CatharusGuttatus #Thrush #Bird #Animal #Nature #Photography #Brooklyn #Wisconsin

A hermit thrush on the ground. The bird is standing in dirt next to a green plant. There are several pockets of green plants/growth scattered around the picture with brown dirt between them. There is the end of a board at the top center. The thrush is just barely right of center in the photo, looking to the right. Its feathers and head are brown and the long tail looks orange. Its chest is white with brown streaking. It has a black eye with a white eye ring and a short stout beak.

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Callen Harty @callenh.bsky.social · 3d

Ring-billed gull. #Ring-BilledGull #LarusDelawarensis #Gull #Seagull #Seabird #Bird #Animal #Nature #Photography #LakeMichigan #Algoma #Wisconsin

A ring-billed gull on the edge of Lake Michigan. The gull has its back to the camera and its head is turned to the left. Its feathers are a light grey and its neck and head are white. It has a yellow eye and a thick yellow beak with a black ring just short of the end. The tail is black. The bird's yellow legs are in shadow, so they look dark in the photo.

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Callen Harty @callenh.bsky.social · 5d

Lilium, Casa Blanca. #CasaBlanca #Lilium #Lily #OrientalLily #Flower #Photography #Monona #Wisconsin

A bright white lily at the left of the photo. Most of the background is black with a few green leaves showing. It has four large oval petals and several smaller ones. There are half a dozen stamen, reddish-brown in color.

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Callen Harty @callenh.bsky.social · 6d

Stacked chairs. #StackedChairs #Chair #Metal #Curves #Photography #Madison #Wisconsin

Side view of a number of chairs stacked one upon the other. At the bottom of the photo, the silver metal of the chairs is curved downward. Stacked over them are chairs with the metal curved upward. The lower chairs can be seen behind the upper chairs on the left. The image creates an unusual picture of curves and lines.

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Callen Harty @callenh.bsky.social · 6d

Green stink bug. #GreenStinkBug #ChinaviaHilaris #StinkBug #Bug #Insect #Animal #Nature #Photography #Wisconsin

A green stink bug on a brown leaf. There are another couple of brown leaves to the left and the green of the bug really sticks out against all the brown. It is a bright green bug. It is looking to the right. Its wings form what looks like a shield from the top. It is green all over, including its head and legs, except for its antennae, which alternate between black and tan.

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Callen Harty @callenh.bsky.social · 7d

Blue dasher. #BlueDasher #PachydiplaxLongipennis #Dragonfly #Skimmer #Insect #Animal #Nature #Photography #EdnaTaylorConservationPark #Madison #Wisconsin

A blue dasher dragonfly on a plant. It is facing left in the photo. Its head is green with a white face and a black eye. The wings are clear with veining and black tips at the end. They are spread out and held forward. The thorax has alternating brown and yellow stripes. The dragonfly's abdomen is a chalky white with a black tip.

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Callen Harty @callenh.bsky.social · 8d

Song sparrow. #SongSparrow #MelospizaMelodia #Sparrow #Bird #Animal #Nature #Photography #Wisconsin

A song sparrow perched on a branch. There is a branch to its left and it is perched on one at the center of the photo that curves upward to the right. Behind it is a blue sky except for part of a cloud at the bottom left. The branches are bare. The sparrow is centered in the photo and looking to the right. It has brown wings with dark bars and a long tail. The breast is white/grey with brown streaks, mostly on the upper half, as is the neck. Its head is greyish. It has a dark eye and a short stout beak. There is a brown streak that stretches from the eye to the back of the head.

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Callen Harty @callenh.bsky.social · 9d

Green-striped darner. #Green-StripedDarner #AeshnaVerticalis #Dragonfly #Darner #Insect #Animal #Nature #Photography #LakeFarmCountyPark #Madison #Wisconsin

A green-striped darner dragonfly clinging to the bottom of a green stem. The dragonfly is facing upwards. It is mostly a chocolate brown, but with several light green stripes on its thorax and green spots running all the way down its abdomen. The wings are spread out to the right over its body and are clear except for veining.

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Callen Harty @callenh.bsky.social · 10d

Tree swallow. #TreeSwallow #TachycinetaBicolor #Swallow #Bird #Animal #Nature #Photography #HoriconMarsh #Wisconsin

A tree swallow resting on a cement sidewalk. Its neck and belly are white with a couple black spots on the breast. Its head is a deep blue. It has a short black beak. The wings are dark and are folded over its back.

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Callen Harty @callenh.bsky.social · 11d

Milbert's tortoiseshell. #Milbert'sTortoiseshell #AglaisMilberti #Tortoiseshell #Butterfly #Insect #Animal #Nature #Photography #CadizSpringsStateRecreationArea #Browntown #Wisconsin

Milbert's tortoiseshell butterfly on a yellow flower. The butterfly is centered in the photo and looking right. Its wings are closed and are a dark brown from the head do just over half-way toward the end, where it turns into a tan stripe.

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Callen Harty @callenh.bsky.social · 12d

Great spreadwing. #GreatSpreadwing #ArchilestesGrandis #Spreadwing #Damselfly #Insect #Animal #Nature #Photography #Wisconsin

A great spreadwing damselfly on a stick. The damselfly fly's body is mostly black, with blue at the tip. It has four clear wings with veining showing and they are spread wide. There is a light stripe on the side of its thorax, which is otherwise dark. They eyes are blue.

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Callen Harty @callenh.bsky.social · 13d

Great egret. #GreatEgret #ArdeaAlba #Egret #Heron #Bird #Animal #Nature #Photography #Orlando #Florida

A great egret standing in water, facing left. The bird is all white except for a long orange beak, a yellow eye, and black legs. It has a long, curved neck.

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Callen Harty @callenh.bsky.social · 14d

Confused eusarca. #ConfusedEusarca #EusarcaConfusaria #Moth #Insect #Animal #Nature #Photography #Wisconsin

A confused eusarca moth on a leaf. The moth is mostly white with a couple of thin brown lines crossing its wings and another line at the top of the wings. Its fuzzy antennae are curved back toward the body just above the wings.

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Callen Harty @callenh.bsky.social · 15d

Bald eagles. #BaldEagle #Haliaeetus#eucocephalus #Eagle #Raptor #BirdOfPrey #NationalSymbol #Bird #Animal #Nature #Minong #Wisconsin

A pair of bald eagles near the top of a tree. The tree has orange leaves and some bare branches. The eagles are just a couple of feet apart on one limb on the left side of the tree. The one on the left is a juvenile. It is mostly brown with some tan and white showing in its wings. It also has a lighter patch showing just under its eye. The beak is black. Just to the right of that is an adult eagle, with mostly dark brown feathers and the usual all-white neck and head and yellow beak.

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Callen Harty @callenh.bsky.social · 17d

United States Capitol at Dusk. #UnitedStatesCapitol #USCapitol #Capitol #CapitolBuilding #Congress #Government #Architecture #Dome #StatueOfFreedom #WilliamThornton #BenjaminHenryLatrobe #Washington #DistrictOfColumbia

The United States Capitol at dusk. The sky behind it is blue. The dome is toward the right side of the photo and the lower portion of it is lit up. Only the first portion of the wing to the right can be seen. The other wing stretches out to the left almost to the edge of the photo. There are lights in many of the windows. The Statue of Freedom can be seen at the very top.

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Callen Harty @callenh.bsky.social · 17d

White-tailed deer portrait. #White-TailedDeer #OdocoileusVirginianus #Whitetail #Deer #VirginiaDeer #Animal #Nature #Photography #Cade'sCove #Tennessee

A close-up of a white-tailed deer. It is at the right of the photo looking left. There is a second blurred deer in the background. The photo is from the neck up. The deer is brown with white under its neck, a black band and a white one around its mouth. It has a large round black eye with long thick lashes, and a curved white or tan line over the eye. Both of its ears are raised.

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Callen Harty @callenh.bsky.social · 18d

Eastern amberwing. #EasternAmberwing #PerithemisTenera #Amberwing #Dragonfly #Insect #Animal #Nature #Photography #PatrickMarsh #SunPrairie #Wisconsin

An Eastern amberwing butterfly. It is mostly brown, but with white stripes circling around each segment of its abdomen. The wings are transparent with a golden hue and a dark orange or red mark at the upper tip of each wing.

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Callen Harty @callenh.bsky.social · 20d

Osprey. #Osprey #PandionHaliaetus #BirdOfPrey #Raptor #Bird #Animal #Nature #Photography #FourLakesWildlifeCenter #Madison #Wisconsin

An osprey atop a stump. It is facing left. Its underside is white and its feathers are mostly brown with white markings. The head is white with a black V on its neck starting right behind its brown eye. There are black patches on the top of its head also. and a short black, hooked beak. The legs are white with a little bit of grey on the front and its talons are large, curved, and black.

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Callen Harty @callenh.bsky.social · 20d

Definite tussock moth caterpillar. #DefiniteTussockMothCaterpillar #OrgyiaDefinita #TussockMoth #Moth #Caterpillar #Insect #Animal #Nature #Photography #MammothCaveNationalPark #MammothCave #Kentucky

A definite tussock moth caterpillar at Mammoth Cave. It is facing down. It appears to be on a rock or a wall. It is mostly a light yellow, with four darker yellow tufts on its back and a black line running down the center of its body. Fuzzy yellow hairs sick out from both sides of the moth. A pair of long brown hairs stick out from its yellow head. Similarly, a number of long brown hairs stretch out at the rear end, forming what looks like a tail.

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Callen Harty @callenh.bsky.social · 21d

Red-tailed hawk. #Red-TailedHawk #ButeoJamaicensis #Hawk #Raptor #Bird #BirdOfPrey #Animal #Nature #Photography #UniversityOfWisconsinArboretum #Madison #Wisconsin

A red-tailed hawk atop the edge of a shingled roof. It is at the far right edge of the roof and is looking left. The hawk is mostly white with some brown spots on its abdomen and legs. Its head is a light brown and it has an intense yellow eye and a short curved sharp beak. The wing is dark brown with a little bit of white in the center. The tail stretches out a bit and down over the edge of the roof. There is a deep blue sky behind it.

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Callen Harty @callenh.bsky.social · 22d

Eastern American toad. #EasternAmericanToad #AmericanToad #AnaxyrusAmericanus #Toad #Amphibian #Animal #Nature #Photography #Kalkaska #Michigan

A toad atop a pile of wood chips. It is in the middle of the photo, facing right. It has many warts scattered over its entire body. They are all very red, giving its entire body a reddish hue.

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Callen Harty @callenh.bsky.social · 23d

Hore Abbey as seen from the Rock of Cashel. #HoreAbbey #Abbey #SaintMary #Ruins #RockOfCashel #Landscape #Photography #CountyTipperary #Ireland

Hore Abbey. The ruins of an old abbey, taken from the wall of the Rock of Cashel. There is a large square section in the middle and then a number of remaining walls all around it. A number of cows are seen grazing, mostly to the right of the abbey. The background is green fields.

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Callen Harty @callenh.bsky.social · 24d

Gray treefrog. #GrayTreefrog #DryophytesVersicolor #Treefrog #Frog #Amphibian #Animal #Nature #Photography #LakeKegonsaStatePark #Stoughton #Wisconsin

A gray treefrog sitting in a cement water fountain. The frog is facing right. It changes colors from green to gray. In this photo it is gray, blending in with the cement It has darker spots all over its body.

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