February 25, 2022
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s one of our smallest, earliest, and most commonplace wildflowers, the Violets of genus Viola. The Violets are...
February 18, 2022
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s a wily freshwater shorebird that many believe is make-believe, the Wilson’s Snipe (Gallinago delicata). I’m sure many...
February 11, 2022
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we’re talking about something a little off topic, an ecological phenomenon rather than a specific organism; this week...
February 4, 2022
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we’re taking a gander at our most miniscule member of the amphibians, the Little Grass Frog (Pseudacris ocularis)....
January 28, 2022
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have a much maligned and often misidentified member of the mighty oaks, Darlington Oak (Quercus hemisphaerica). Darlington...
January 21, 2022
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s a one of our winter waterfowl, the Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola). Buoying between the breakwaters and burying itself...
January 14, 2022
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s a blossoming beach winter wildflower, Beach Evening-Primrose (Oenothera drummondii). Winter weather leaves us wishing to welcome warm...
January 7, 2022
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have a clade of clingy calcareous crustaceans, Acorn Barnacles (Subclass Cirripedia, clade Sessilia). You read me right,...
December 31, 2021
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s a curious coastal shrub that’s as good at inflicting pain as it is at killing pain, Southern...