Pink Cattleheart Butterfly

Living Conservatory

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

An Owl Butterfly

Living Conservatory

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

Malachite Butterflies

Living Conservatory

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

Postman Butterflies

Living Conservatory

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

Blue Morpho

The underside of the wings on the Blue Morpho are dull brown and dotted with eyespots.


But when they open their wings - WOW!

Living Conservatory

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

Julia Butterflies

Living Conservatory

NC Museum of Natural Sciences

Migrant Berry Pickers

The Cedar Waxwings have done an efficient job of stripping the berries off our American Holly tree.

Congaree National Park

The sounds of woodpeckers pecking and birds singing filled the air as I walked the boardwalk through this floodplain forest.

Red-headed Woodpecker

Golden-crowned Kinglet

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Apple Blossom Amaryllis

has now peaked with four blooms.

Birds in the Wild

I spotted an Eastern Bluebird and a Red-bellied Woodpecker today while walking the trails of the Cox Ferry Recreation Area which is part of the Waccamaw National Wildlife Refuge.