by don | Jun 10, 2013
As we turn to bask in the full glow of the summer sun, mornings begin to heat up quickly and as they heat they become quieter. The Neotropical migrants that arrive in waves in April and early May filling forests, glades, parks and backyards with the lustful music of...
by don | May 19, 2013
What could be more fun than a weekend of fellowship and great birding? Maybe setting a new record for total number of species recorded during the annual Great Smoky Mountains Birding Expedition? This year was the 29th installment of the Great Smoky Mountains Birding...
by don | May 5, 2013
We’ve had a good run in the watershed. The Town of Waynesville has sponsored spring and fall guided hikes in its 8,000-plus acre watershed since 2007. The hikes provide a great way for residents and other interested parties to see this wonderful resource that has been...
by don | May 4, 2013
The blue-headed vireo sang to me of spring sometime around the first week of April. Blue-headeds are generally the last “non-resident” songbird we hear in the fall (sometimes into November) and the first we hear in the spring – probably due to the fact that many...
by don | Apr 11, 2013
Love may be a little anthropogenic for toads but the eons old “urge to merge” was quite prevalent last Sunday (4/7) when we were at Oconee State Park. Oconee State Park, in Mountain Rest, Sc., is along U.S. Hwy 11 around 14 miles south of Cashiers, Nc. and about an...
by don | Mar 29, 2013
Wild South held its Fifth Annual Green Gala, celebrating the 2012 Roosevelt-Ashe Society’s Conservation Award winners, last Friday March 22. Wild South is a regional nonprofit with offices in Asheville, Nc. and Moulton, Ala. that works to protect, conserve and enhance...
