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Note black bill w/ dove-like face appearance; narrow wings w/ deeply forked tail; black-and-white w/ shining blue-gray upper-wings. I was thrilled to watch four of these graceful raptors flying above an agricultural field feeding on insects.

~4 ft. in length. Different individual than observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/224580051 ; though was in the same immediate vicinity (~5m) and displayed similar behavioral signs of being fed by humans.

I am a herpetologist There have been confirmed sightings of alligators in South Fayette County in the wolf River area. But this may be the first confirmed sighting in the Loosahatchie river, but this has been suspected for sometime and is referred to in the recent publication reptiles and amphibians of Tennessee. It’s good to have a confirmation.

Of the herbs native to temperate Eurasia, this best-known, weedy invasive member is a biennial in the small genus of flowering plants in the mustard family Brassicaceae (also known as the older name, Cruciferae, meaning "cross-bearing", describing the four petals of mustard flowers, which resemble a cross); arranged in clusters, each small white flower of 4 deeply notched petals gives a heart-shaped appearance that upon first glance may look like 8 petals on the flowering stalk from the springtime rosette of leaves close to the ground

Some similar species:
• Shepherd's purse, Capsella bursa-pastoris – flower petals do not have the deep notch of hoary alyssum flowers; those triangular seedpods are slightly heart shaped, hoary alyssum seedpods round and flattened

• Field pennycress, Thlaspi arvense – flower petals do not have the deep notch of hoary alyssum flowers, and their leaves have toothed edges; the edges of hoary alyssum leaves are smooth

• Green flowered peppergrass, Lepidium densiflorum – flower petals are not deeply notched, and the larger green flowered peppergrass leaves have toothed edges; the edges of all hoary alyssum leaves are smooth