Ocracoke’s Snowy Winter
By Peter Vankevich
Photos by Dianne Fodrie Stankiewicz
Ocracoke certainly had an unusual winter. With two wonderful snowstorms and the school closed for several days, the...
Spotted on Ocracoke: Peanuts! and the Blue Jay
August 2013
Text and Photo by Peter Vankevich
This month’s feature bird is a familiar but somewhat notorious Ocracoke resident. The Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata) is...
Spotted on Ocracoke: a homing pigeon named Paloma
Spotted on Ocracoke: A Homing Pigeon
Text and photo by Peter Vankevich
November 2010
The storm system around the beginning of October (2010) brought out a...