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Wildlife photography and fun facts about Garden State creatures!
📸: @evanpleongmedia @jcob_604

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A great egret captures a minnow at Raritan Bay Waterfront Park.

Great egrets typically eat fish, as seen here. They also feed on aquatic invertebrates, amphibians, reptiles, and small mammals and birds.

📸: @evanpleongmedia taken in Raritan Bay Waterfront Park by @gardenstatecreatures

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POV you’re on a bird photo walk taken in Middlesex County by @gardenstatecreatures

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First insect photos with the new lens!

Halloween Pennants perch on tall grass (pictured) and twigs, swinging in the breeze like flags. They were given the name “pennant” as a result.

These dragonflies feed on mosquitos, gnats, and other small insects.

📸: @evanpleongmedia taken in Raritan Bay Waterfront Park by @gardenstatecreatures

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Found this male horseshoe crab upside down, and had to flip him over!

You can see some hitchhikers on its shell. The small ones are barnacles, and the large ones are slipper shells — which are actually marine snails.

Both hitchhikers tag along on horseshoe crabs’ backs, eating detritus and plankton from the water column.

📸: @evanpleongmedia taken in Raritan Bay Waterfront Park by @gardenstatecreatures

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These Canadian Geese goslings are getting big!

Goslings are born with the ability to walk, swim, and eat, and they only need 8-10 weeks to reach full adult size.

These goslings were traveling with both parents, foraging for food along the Raritan Bay coastline.

📸: @evanpleongmedia taken in Raritan Bay Waterfront Park by @gardenstatecreatures

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Spotted cucumber beetle!

Major pests that chew holes in plants and fruit. They’re also notorious vectors of plant pathogens like Bacterial Wilt.

Found in Long Branch, NJ.

📸: @evanpleongmedia taken in Long Branch, New Jersey by @gardenstatecreatures

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Who doesn’t love mallards?

They’re the most abundant ducks in the world. This one is male, as evident by the green head, while females are brown and striped.

📸: @evanpleongmedia taken in Raritan Bay Waterfront Park by @gardenstatecreatures

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American Oystercatchers are monogamous shore birds that sometimes mate for life. Occasionally, in areas with high populations, they may form trios, with one male and two females.

This pair has been found twice (so far) at Raritan Bay Waterfront Park in South Amboy, NJ.

📸: @evanpleongmedia taken in Raritan Bay Waterfront Park by @gardenstatecreatures

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Common Mergansers are also known as sawbills or fish ducks. The British call them Goosanders.

📸: @jcob_604 taken in Cheesequake State Park by @gardenstatecreatures

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Grackle. That’s it. That’s the post.

📸: @evanpleongmedia taken in Raritan Bay Waterfront Park by @gardenstatecreatures

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Did you know box turtles can live over 100 years?

This Eastern Box Turtle has red/orange eyes, which indicates that he’s a male.

📸: @johart322 taken in Monmouth County by @gardenstatecreatures

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