Spotted on Ocracoke: The Great Black-backed Gull
Spotted on Ocracoke: The Great Black-backed Gull
April 2011
Text and Photo by Peter Vankevich
Most of the year –less so in late spring to midsummer-...
Spotted on Ocracoke: Another Glimpse of Winter Light
December 2010
Text and photo by Peter Vankevich
What is spotted this month is not a curious artifact but an impressionistic mood. As Yogi Berra allegedly...
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...
Spotted on Ocracoke: The Lion’s Mane
September 2010
Text and Photo by Peter Vankevich
Two years ago or so, I featured in this column the Cannonball Jellyfish (Stomolophus meleagris) that had been...
Spotted on Ocracoke: The Green Anole
August 2010
Text and photos by Peter Vankevich
Let’s start with a colorful story: “Hey did you see that bright green lizard sunning on the porch...
Spotted on Ocracoke: The Sanderling
April 2010
Text and photo by Peter Vankevich
A good part of the year, except perhaps for the heart of summer, it is hard to walk...
Spotted on Ocracoke: The Dashing Little Merlin Falcon
November 2009
Text and Photo by Peter Vankevich
What makes birdlife on Ocracoke fascinating is that it is always changing. There are the year-round residents such...
Observed on Ocracoke: The Black Skimmer
Text and Photo by Peter Vankevich
The North Carolina coastline is home to about 25 species of colonial nesting water birds. Along the Ocracoke beach...