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...
February 23, 2024
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s an omnipresent weed that's tough to get ID’d, Cudweed (Gamochaeta spp.). Cudweed, or Everlasting, is a genus...
February 16, 2024
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we welcome the turbulent return of our wetland building rodent, the North American Beaver (Castor canadensis). Beavers can...
