Every night back at AMC August Camp , someone from each of the half dozen hikes would give a brief - well, usually they were brief - trip re...

On Tuesday's hike into Cape May Point State Park , I encountered this creature on the trails.  Usually, animals tend to flee when they s...

On my Friday hike through White Oak Canyon , a large bird swooped along Cedar Run.  What I initially thought it was, I was wrong about, as I...

I'll take a bit of a break from my Scotland posts, lassies and laddies, to post about Friday's (June 6) hike in Shenandoah National ...

While exploring Cape May Point State Park a couple of weeks ago, I came on this bird sitting in a tree over the water.  It is one that I s...

During my six mile hike / training walk Wednesday after work, I spotted this creature in Maymont.  Maymont has a number of captive creatur...

As I hiked along the Old Indian Trail in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore last week, I heard an animal moving more or less in my dir...

On my kayak outing last week in Michigan , I snapped a photo of this bird in flight.  Can you guess what it is? Far from water I don...

I saw this western animal on both the Donner Lake and the Mount Judah hikes in California last week.  Can you guess it?  It is not an eas...

On my short nature hike last Monday along Donner Lake in the Sierra Nevada , I was fortunate enough to spot this quick and active creature f...

Here is the fourth "What Am I?" riddle from my backpacking trip on Shackleford Banks.... I live out on the ocean's floor...

Here is the third "What Am I?" riddle from my backpacking trip on Shackleford Banks.... Patrolling by the water's edge ...

Here is the second "What Am I?" riddle from my backpacking trip on Shackleford Banks.... You ever think you've seen a ghost ...

It's been four weeks since I was backpacking on Shackleford Banks, and it is past time to document some of the other wildlife that I saw...

I saw this mercurial creature on my hike two days ago in Staunton River State Park .  It took me persistence and moving at a slow pace, but ...

Although I see (and especially hear) these little birds all of the time, I don't usually get a photo of them.  But on Friday's rambl...

On my nature hike at the Pony Pasture in James River Park yesterday , I saw this commonly seen feathered friend.  Can you guess what it is? ...

I saw this animal on my final hike in Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge a few weeks ago.  I already miss going there, but expect I will go ...

Just over three weeks ago, I was hiking in the Great Dismal Swamp , and I saw an animal that I have only seen three times before in the wild...

It took me a long time to post this because Blogger stopped allowing me to load photos.  But thanks to Google (what an amazing thing), I fo...