Mammals:

• American Black Bear (roadkill)
• Eastern Gray Squirrel
• Common Raccoon (roadkill)
• Nutria
• Virginia Opposum
• Eastern Cottontail Rabbit
• White Tailed Deer
• Offshore Bottlenose Dolphins
• Nearshore Bottlenose Dolphins
• Bat sp.

Reptiles:

• Redbellied Cooter
• Yellowbelly Slider
• Green Anole
• Dekay’s Brownsnake
• Redbellied Watersnake

Amphibians:

• Fowler’s Toad
• Southern Cricket Frog
• Green Frog
• Holbrook’s Southern Dusky Salamander
• Southern Two Lined Salamander

• (32) Marbled Salamander
  * migrating east from west side of paved road [Grafton Ponds Natural Area Preserve, VA] walked ~0.75 mile stretch

Fish:

• Eastern Mosquitofish
• Bluegill
• Large Four-Wing Flying fish sp. (Genera Cypselurus, Hirundichthys)
• Small Clearwing Flying fish sp. (Exocoetus sp.)

• False Albacore Tuna
  * Feeding on surface [during Pelagic], Terns feeding on smaller bait fish

Arachnids:

• Southern Black Widow
• Mabel Orchard Orbweaver

Insects:

• Black Swallowtail
• Common Wood-Nymph
• Red Spotted Purple
• Spotted Cucumber Beetle
• Horned Passalus Beetle
• Fringed Diving Beetle
• Dart Moth sp.
• “Hammerhead” worm sp.

Birds:

• https://ebird.org/tripreport/76991
  * (104 Species)

Other:

• Cannonball Jellyfish

• +1 other unknown jellyfish sp.
  * possible moon jelly sp.?

Posted on September 26, 2022 06:30 AM by alexpellegrini