West Virginia Highlands, 2008
Seneca Rocks
A composite picture of the rocks.
The view from Seneca Rocks (can you see Brady's car?)
Damselfly
Elderberry
Pearly everlasting with pollinator
Fire weed on Spruce Knob
Dolly Sods
We visited a bird banding station...
Close-up of Magnolia warbler feathers
First year Magnolia warbler
Close-up of Magnolia warbler feet
Magnolia warbler in hand (note that only the experienced bird-banders may handle the birds).
Cape-May warbler
Cape-May warbler
Bird banding
Magnolia warbler after banding
Ruby-throated hummingbird, a little stunned from the nets.
Female Black-throated blue warbler in hand
Female Black-throated blue warbler
Female Black-throated blue warbler
Blue-gray gnatcatcher
Mark handling a Blue-gray gnatcatcher
Gentian flowers. Gee, how do they get pollinated?
Bees know how (that's a bee's behind sticking out).
A pipe-vine swallowtail
More fire weed
Tiny caterpillar
Mountain Holly (Ilex mucronata)
Sphagnum and cranberries
Cotton grass over the bog
Sundew (a carnivorous plant)
Sundew
Sundew
Sundew meal
Dragonfly
The road through Dolly Sods
Monarch butterfly wing
A blue-headed vireo
Salamander
Dragonfly
A different salamander
A red-spotted Purple butterfly
A black-billed cuckoo!
Cool insect wings
The Allegheny Front is the high-point in the middle. That's where Dolly Sods is.
Blackwater Falls
Blackwater Falls
Where most of your electricity probably comes from.
Where the forests are going.
Sideling Hill
Pictures of interest to naturalists (not necessarily pretty)
Fossil worm burrows (from the Silurian?)
There is a reason they are called cicada killers.
Cicada killer carrying away a cicada