Sunday, June 8, 2008

Mid Crabtree Owl and Snapper eggs

Barn owl off deck of Middle Crabtree's greenway



Turtles basking on this same stretch


This is the rock that turns Crabtree Creek at Capital Boulevard

The owl is in this scene somewhere. Below is a female snapping turtle laying eggs.




The family of one of my students had a female snapper crawl up into a sandy area near their backyard creek and lay some eggs.

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Wakefield Middle School Ecology Club

The Raleigh Naturalist get-up shown at Wakefield MS.
The large map is being color-coded to delineate the watersheds.


The school is on a lovely site near the Falls Lake dam. Below are some nature images from their campus.

These blackberries will be tasting good by mid-summer!

This nifty rockfall includes the most interesting "man-made conglomerate" I've seen - really pretty high-iron rock encased in cement.

return to Raleigh Nature

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Spring Flowerings

Henbit at Lassiter Mill


front yard volunteers

Lady Banks on fern


buttercups on Hodges Road



Atamasca Lily stand on Buckeye Trail


Saturday, April 12, 2008

Spring in Asheville


Above is Reed Creek flowing through The Botanical Garden at Asheville. Adjacent to campus, it holds over 700 plant species. The campus itself has a pretty good show of flowering trees in the spring.



Virginia bluebells

violets



Roadside flowers by the French Broad River

Mayapples by seep

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Fletcher Park's new project

The basin of the new water garden, which will retain and filter the water headed toward Pigeon House Creek.


The driveway of a street that edges Fletcher.

Fletcher Park off St Mary's Street

amphitheatre

upper terrace

red oak

white oak

Fletcher water garden project at top

Fletcher water garden site

Raleigh Nature (return to main site)

Sunday, March 2, 2008

Bike Trails RIP - greenway buffer loss

Here is my image of what Joe Miller described as the mohawk effect


Looking from the new development at the south end of Six Forks.



























The wholesale destruction of the old farm between Atlantic Acenue and Capital Boulevard, north of hodges. The tent below is home to quite a few fellows, I'm told, and is generating the trash pile below that.



trash pile near Atlantic Ave swamp tent

troublesome hillside deck off Capital Blvd

bog behind Atlantic Ave. swamp, from greenway deck

Atlantic-Capital greenway, looking toward beltline ramp