Five pages of images from Pennsylvania. This page includes birds and other critters seen in Penn Hills. The next two pages are flowers seen in Penn Hills. The fourth page has images from Penn Hills Park. The last page has images from an I-79 rest stop in Greene County and from the Car and Carriage Museum at The Frick Pittsburgh.
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Song sparrow
[Bird perched on a bird feeder which has grey bottom and a red house full of seeds. The brown and white speckled bird with a white throat faces the camera and appears to have seeds in its mouth. The tail is lifted up and visible in this image.]

Male house finch
[Bird perched on a bird feeder which has grey bottom and a red house full of seeds. This side view of the bird shows its red head and stomach, light brown thick beak, and brown feathers on the body. Its one dark eye appears to be watching the camera.]

This male house finch (facing away from the camera) was seen feeding seeds to the presumable youngster.
[Two birds on the tray around the red house-shaped bird feeder. There is a red patch on the tail and the head is red on the male facing away from the camera. The slightly smaller all brown bird, seen from its right side, has its head bend near the seeds.]

Mourning dove
[Bird perched on a tree limb facing left. It has a light brown body with darker brown wings that have black at the tips. The bill is short and pointy-thin and the same dark brown. It has reddish-pink legs.]

Two views of the same chipping sparrow
[Two images spliced together. On the left the bird's head is upright and faces to the right as it stands in the grass. The head is brown, but there is a white stripe from the eye to the back of the head. The stomach is white-grey. The rest of the body is mostly brown. On the right the sparrow has its head bent to the ground making the white stripe on both sides of its head visible around the brown at the top of its head.]

Bee fly
[A top down view of a fly perched on a leaf of grass facing the upper left. It has a brown and tan striped body with clear wings. Four legs are visible as are the large eyes and the things protruding from the front of the head.]

Confused eusarca moth
[A moth with outstretched wings perched in the grass. It's face is not visible. The wings are a very pale brown with a dark brown stripe across each of the wings. There is a thinner stripe across all wings closer to the head, but it is not as visible due to the grass blades covering some of it.]

Cabbage white butterfly
[A mostly white butterfly with wings held above it perched in the grass. The white wings are all white except for a small section at the upper edge which is black as is one dot on its wing.]

Pipevine swallowtail butterfly
[Two photos spliced together. The one on the left is the butterfly lying on the grass as seen from ground level on one side. The yellow spots along the edges of the black wings stand out in the grass. There is also some blue showing on the hind wings. The photo on the right is a top-down view of the butterfly standing in the grass with its wings spread. The hind end of the wings are a white to light blue. Most of the wings are dark brown, but the lower edges are edged with yellow spots. This butterfly has thin tails on the edges of the lower wings.]

Eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly
[Two photos spliced together. The one on the left is top-down view of the butterfly with its wings outstretched. The tail on the left wing is missing. This butterfly is yellow with black edges and black stripes. There are a couple of red-orange and blue spots on the hind wing. The body is yellow and black striped. The photo on the right is the butterfly standing on the deck with its wings above-behind it. In this view the orange and blue sections each align in their own rows in a diagonal across the wings. Although the legs and antenna appear black, there looks like there might be some yellow on them as well.]

I presume this rabbit, lying motionless in the middle of the road, was a traffic casualty.
[The rabbit is lying on the asphalt road with its ears, head and torso visible. There is a bloody spot on its shoulder. The eye is open and the ears are relatively short--less than the length of the head.]

This fawn was a traffic casualty.
[Two photos spliced together. On the left is a close view of the fawn's head and neck. It's eyes are open and its ears alert on its head. The white splotches on its brown fur are evident. The photo on the right is the entire deer including the blood splattered on the road. The deer is lying on its left side with its legs spread as if it died and fell in mid run across the road. There is not blood on most of the fur, so I think it was hit in the leg or hind end. The fawn was probably a couple of months old.]

Fowler's toad
[Two photos spliced together. On the left the heaad is visible coming out from under a brown leaf. The toad has very wide mouth which protrudes outward on the sides well beyond the eyes. This toad is shades of brown. On the right is a top down view. There is a light brown stripe down the center of the back. There are dark brown warts ringed with balck on the brown skin of the toad.]

Garter snake
[The snake apparently died while crossing the freshly stoned road. It is stretched out except for the last six inches of tail which are curved back toward the body. There are yellow lines down the length of the body beside the darker stripes with geometric shapes on it (triangles?).]

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All photos © S. M. Garver