Ocracoke Nature

  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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...