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Holly Shelter Game Land March 22, 2015

My son lives one mile from Holly Shelter.  I ran over to do a quick check of the bird situation and got totally distracted by plants.   A 30-minute walk into the gameland from the Hwy 17 entrance yielded some nice images.  One of the few times I did not hear or see a Red-cockaded Woodpecker…

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England 2016 – The Tower of London

My trip to England began with a visit to the Tower of London.   At the moment, I am sitting at the international terminal in Philidelphia.  To save money, I created my own flight schedule, and thus had to walk from terminal B to A-west, with my luggage, outside.  Took about 10 minutes, which was…

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Echo Lake, Marquette, Michigan

Most of my 20 hours each week were filled with peace and solitude Allow me to preface that first title and embellish it as well. Born in New York just north of NYC, I spent my entire adult life in North Carolina. In the spring of 2019, we, my wife Sheree’ and I purchased a…

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September on the NC/SC Coast (Oh, my Maria!)

The plan was – Sheree and I spend a day at Pettigrew State Park  and a day at Oregon Inlet campground, after which, I head solo down the Outer Banks, birding as I go, take the ferries, bird from Cedar Island all the way down to Litchfield Beach, S.C., where I attend the Carolina Bird Club fall…

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