Here's a family of Wood Storks for today's #BirdoftheDay alt theme of #WhattheFlock.
#Birds #nature #photography

One of my favorites!

Thank you!

Side view of a Killdeer chick beautifully lit up by late afternoon sunlight. It is standing in a patch of spring leaves, some ovate and some fern like. It is standing in front of shaded shallow water and greenery.

This not quite week-old Killdeer chick stepped into a patch of late afternoon sunlight. Stunning + adorable?! I'll take it. 🥰 #stunday #birds #babybirds

Three ducks floating on blue water, two in the foreground facing left, one in the back turning away. The middle duck is in focus. The ducks are beige, taupe, and brown, with coral bills and white ringing their dark eyes.

For today's #BirdOfTheDay Alt Theme #WhatTheFlock (three or more of the same species), a trio of black-bellied whistling ducks (Dendrocygna autumnalis) at Circle B Bar Reserve this winter.

#NaturePhotography #CircleBBarReserve #FloridaBirds #BlackBelliedWhistlingDuck #Ducks

In a field of purple and yellow wildflowers, a large black vulture with bald dark gray head, looking off into the distance pensively at something off camera.

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #PetalsAndPerches, here is one of my early bird photos, a black vulture (Coragyps atratus) in a field of wildflowers at Clybel WMA in Georgia. I call this emo vulture "Me in High School."

#NaturePhotography #BlackVulture #GeorgiaOutdoors #GoOutdoorsGA #ClybelWMA

An April Walk in my Garden A tour with my macro lens

New Substack post

Return to a Springtime Dream Another visit to the Shirley Miller Wildflower Trail

This week's post highlights a recent visit to the Shirley Miller Wildflower Trail in Northwest Georgia.

A Cedar Waxwing waving to the camera

Close-up of a tan snake, head nestled in curled up body, with slightly milky eyes as though preparing to shed

Looking for millipedes, I instead found a smooth earthsnake. Photographed this evening at Sweetwater Creek State Park. #NaturePhotography #Earthsnake #Snakes #GAStateParks #GeorgiaOutdoors

Black and yellow butterfly visiting white flowers on a tree branch

Close-up of a mostly pale yellow butterfly, with black, blue, and orange markings on the ventral wing, visiting a white flower

Black and yellow butterfly visiting white flowers on a tree branch

A few different views of a Giant Swallowtail #butterfly on a wild plum at Hannahatchee Creek WMA this weekend
#NaturePhotography #GeorgiaOutdoors #GoOutdoorsGA #HannahatcheeCreek #SWGA #ExploreGeorgia

Noticing Nature Everywhere or How I Accidentally Became the Top iNaturalist Observer in My State, and You Can, Too!

My constant search for wildlife teaches me to see more and more. It starts with a leaf. Then, I notice the insect on the leaf. When I get closer, I notice a gall on the plant or a leafmine etched into that leaf. I may notice a mite attached to the insect. The more you see, the more you learn to see.

Last day to register for the #ColumbusBotanicalGarden Naturalist Symposium Speaker Day, with keynote speaker Janisse Ray. I'll be starting the day to talk about #CommunityScience, @inaturalist.bsky.social , and noticing more nature wherever you are. 💚 www.columbusbotanicalgarden.org/naturalist-s...

Emerge As February flows into March and winter becomes meteorological spring, we exist among the edges where two seasons meet.

We are in the period where meteorological spring and the end of astronomical winter merge and coexist. My latest post focuses on details of this time in and around Atlanta.
Also, the second installment of my Georgia Wildflower Day Trip guide!

Violet miner bee visiting white form of common blue violet. The bee has a black abdomen with thin yellow stripes, yellow fuzz bordering the thorax and head, and fuzzy yellow legs. The violet has five petals, all white streaked with dark blue-violet. It is a short plant with heart-shaped dark green leaves growing amid brown leaf litter.

My lifer violet leaf miner bee, pollinating a violet in my back garden this weekend.