May 3, 2024
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday, we’re on the lookout for our local Clover, Carolina Clover (Trifolium carolinianum). Carolina Clover is native to the...
April 26, 2024
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s the homecoming for an odd and ephemeral butterfly, the Yucca Giant-Skipper (Megathymus yuccae). The Yucca Giant-Skipper is...
April 19, 2024
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have an uncommon member of the maritime forest understory, Wild Olive, or Devilwood (Catrema americana). Wild Olive...
April 12, 2024
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s the colorful, colonial, and cacophonous Red-headed Woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus). With a bellowing and a banging this boisterous...
April 5, 2024
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have one of our first flowers of the floodplain forest, Butterweed (Packera glabella). Butterweed is annual wildflower...
March 29, 2024
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we’re on the lookout for a cryptic climbing amphibian of the forest canopy, the Cope’s Gray Treefrog (Hyla...
March 22, 2024
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have the perimeter of the pocosin and border of the bay, Shining Fetterbush (Lyonia lucida). Shining Fetterbush...
March 15, 2024
Above: Greater Yellowlegs on left and Lesser Yellowlegs on right. Top Row: Pair of Greater Yellowlegs on saltwater mudflat.Bottom Row: Lesser Yellowlegs in managed rice...
March 8, 2024
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s the floral oracle of the solar aura, Carolina Rockrose (Crocanthemum carolinianum). Carolina Rockrose is a tiny wildflower...
Cooper’s & Sharp-shinned Hawks
March 1, 2024
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we’re investigating a duo of agile aerial assassins, the Hawks of Genus Accipiter. We have two species of...
