Oriental, Sailing Capital of NC

Oriental, Sailing Capital of NC

Greetings from the Neuse River

Life here along the banks of the Neuse River, overlooking close to four miles of water, is a sharp contrast to living in a city. Most months, it is idyllic; then, there are the months that remind you that Mother Nature is definitely in charge.

This neighborhood of houses face the Neuse River and backs up to several acres of farmland -- most years, soybean --- then thick tracts of pine forests to the main road.

I love to watch the sea gulls, sometimes the pelicans, and cormorants or egrets and the occasional eagle or osprey. The cute visitors are "chickens" that my neighbor called me about photographing who were grazing in her yard. Even at 100 feet away, they were skittish and flew to the further neighbor's yard but just enough for me to photograph them for identification. These "chickens" turned out to be cattle egrets. The flock numbered about thirty -- by the river bank...not sure why they picked her yard.

I suppose you could say this blog is an occasional picture-book of life in Pamlico County or whatever comes to mind at the time.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Monarch Butterfly on Pink Zinnia

Each year, I plant a patch of zinnias for the butterflies. Monarchs and swallowtails love zinnias. This photo was taken in my garden last year. I was disturbed to read that this year, the Monarch population may be down 50%. This is due to a very cold winter, herbicides and of course, destruction of habitat. Monarchs do about a 3,000 mile roundtrip migration each year. Next year, I'm going to try to plant a milkweed habitat for them.
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