Various April and May photos.
Before posting the NC pictures, I wanted to get these earlier photos out.
An Oriole upset by the presence of a Crow.
I wish this were in better focus. That Oriole really put on an intimidating show.
It seems like ages ago that we saw this hepatica.
And this groundhog along the entrance to Meadowside.
We saw this while in Roanoke.
And this.
Three photos from the Patuxent North Tract.
Same dragonfly, different angle.
A spread-wing damselfly.
A toad at Riverbend park in Virginia.
We were there for a dragonfly count. This is a Cobra Clubtail.
How the experts hold them for study. Do you see the eggs?
Damselfly, on a thumb for scale.
Immature Common Whitetail.
Mature male Common Whitetail.
On the way back we stopped at Turkey Run to see Valerian.
And Squawroot.
Is that a Broadhead Skink?
A female Rose-breasted Grosbeak drying off after a bath.
Turkey Run
Virginia Watermark