Entrance sign
for original neighborhood which, in 1998, was the entire Town of Carolina
Shores
This Great Blue
Heron stands at attention at one golf course pond, waiting for the moment
to strike. Some of the more interesting species of birds that I have seen
in Carolina Shores are Cooper's Hawks, Pileated, Downy, Hairy, Red-bellied
and Red-headed Woodpeckers, Green Herons, Hooded Mergansers (in photo
below with Great Blue Heron), Great Egrets, Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers,
Great Crested Flycatchers, masses of Ibises, and a Rufous Hummingbird
for six consecutive winters.
Turtles inhabit
golf course ponds. At a pond across the street, friends and I call and
hand-feed as many as 50 Yellow-bellied Sliders at a time. In another pond,
there are only Red-eared Sliders.
Golf course scenes
January 20, 2009
The sun rises
over Calabash to the right of my backyard. When sunrise is spectacular,
I grab my camera and rush to photograph it.
Golden Silk Spider,
Nephila clavipes. Sometimes there many of them in their webs in my yard.