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Well, it's not quite as much fun as yard work and trying to get contractors to return my phone calls. But it will do.

This guy, on the other hand, was only like 3mm long. Tiny. Tiny. Tiny.

He/she was on my front porch, and that was fine. Because, tiny metallic green/white/black/yellow spiders are OK.

Nikon D90, 105mm macro

And this guy/gal was sharing the web. Life partner, I assume. This is NC, we don't ask.

Nikon D90, 105mm macro

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Also saw a pileated woodpecker, but didn't get pix. These guys are really cool looking, and are the size of a crow. But s/he wouldn't leave the forest, unlike the many red-bellied woodpeckers that hang out at our feeders, so it might take some luck to get a good pic.

In addition, a pair of bluebirds have made a nest in the vestigial newspaper box under our mailbox. Every time we get near the mailbox, a bluebird shoots out and flies for safety. One actually hit me in the heel, when I went ran past the mailbox last week.

This is, I'm told by my entomologist friend, a nursery web spider. It's big, and is guarding that egg sac fiercely.

Nikon D90, 105mm macro

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Nikon D90, 105mm macro

I just want it to get the hell off my back door and go away.

Nikon D90, 70-300mm

Taken a few milliseconds before this one.

Nikon D90, 70-300mm

A pair of nesting ospreys fight off a marauder, near Jordan Lake NC.
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