Published October 8, 2019 Iridescent Bird Many birds are colorful, but few can rival hummingbirds. The colors are from both pigment in the plumage, and also structural, with […]
Published July 27, 2015 Honeybee bouquet This honeybee is flying between blooms of an especially profuse flowering trumpet creeper vine. Invasive outside of its range, even here in […]
Published June 13, 2015 Very friendly salamander This black-bellied salamander was remarkably tame as it perched on a rock in a cool mountain stream in the Smoky Mountains. This […]
Published September 8, 2016 Sky Show The Blue Ridge Mountains are blue at dawn and dusk, a result of the nearly invisible breath of thousands of trees. […]