Observations by bhiles

Red-shouldered haw with a shrew.

Upland Chorus Frogs mating.

Upland Chorus frogs singing.

Two adult groundhogs appeared to be engaging in courtship behavior.

At a retention pond behind an office complex

4 Sandhill cranes were in a field in Rockingham County, North Carolina.

Squirrel gathering leaves on a frosty morning in the south.

Males swimming around females doing a "head throw."

Hooded mergansers were performing courtship rituals in a retention pond behind an office building. A muskrat was also on the scene.

A family of eastern gray squirrels in my neighborhood occasionally produce young with blue eyes and white markings.

The heron was at the Bog Garden near downtown Greensboro. They're coastal birds, and we don't usually see them here.

A sparrow fed a fledgling cowbird, which appeared to be twice the size of the "foster" parent.

Luna moths mating in a meadow in Greensboro, N.C.

An orb spider carefully wraps up a grasshopper. The spider had built a web in weeds at the shore of a lake at an office park near Greensboro, N.C.