A Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta) greets the morning sun. The small individual florets bloom sequentially from the bottom to the disk's center. The new florets are about halfway up the disk, with the yellow pollen-covered anthers forming a ring above the purple-brownish stigmas and florets.

A black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) forages through early summer locust leaves.

Twin White-tail Deer fawns (Odocoileus virginianus) pause in their playing to check their surroundings.

Flowering Mayapples
A wide-angle lens let me get low to the ground to see under the covering leaves of these mayapples and show the flower and its surrounding wooded hillside environment.

A black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) pauses momentarily on a bare twig, with autumn leaves of focus in the background and the early morning sun rim-lighting its feathers.
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#birdwatching #wildbirds #chickadee

Autumn Whitetail
A yearling White-tail Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) stands rimmed by the early morning sun on a frosty November hillside.
#whitetaildeer #autumn #wildlife #animal #naturalists #photography

A graceful Great Egret (Ardea alba egretta) forages in a shallow pond in the early morning light.

A Least Flycatcher (Empidonax minimus) pauses watchfully on a low lichen-covered twig.
#bird #flycatcher

Friendly chats.
A pair of ravens visit along a seaside path in Half Moon Bay, California.

Close-up view of a small jumping spider on a glory of the snow flower.