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By Jordan Lake Neighborhood, part 2, 6 photos 08-17-2018
The Jordan Lake Neighborhood Roundup, part 2
 
songbirds and flycatchers
 
Eastern Phoebe
This medium sized flycatcher was still just long enough for me catch its profile.
 MARK5815 Ebenezer 05-08-18 07-38 phoebe
Prairie Warbler
This songster was a new addition to my life list.  It is a summer breeder here.
MARK5844 Ebenezer 05-08-18 07-48 prairie warbler
 
Chipping Sparrow
He has a beak that is crammed full with insects.
MARK6288 Ebenezer 07-08-18 07-27 chipping sparrow 
Eastern Wood-Pewee
The pewee often has a favorite look-out perch branch and will return to it in-between catching flying insects.
This is a pair of wood-pewee fledglings that are playing king-of-the-perch-branch.
MARK6796 Ebenezer 08-08-18 07-44-40 pewee
 
Yellow-throated Warbler.
Just how handsome can a bird get?
MARK6847 Ebenezer 08-08-18 08-34-11 yellow-throated warbler
 
Carolina Chickadee
 
The bird to the right is the parent chickadee.
The bird to the left is a newly fledged chickadee – still very awkward in flight.

By JL Neighborhood Roundup, part 1, 6 photos 8/10/2018
I always have so much of Jordan Lake that I want to share!
My emphasis for my media time is usually on the bird life – in particular the raptors.
But by no means do I miss opportunities to photograph the other lives at Jordan Lake.
 
So, this is part 1 for the current catchup: critters without feathers.
 
Meet the official North Carolina Reptile: the Eastern Box Turtle
This beautiful box turtle strolled out from under my truck as I was packing up to leave one morning.
I picked him up and carried him, in the same direction he was headed, to an area in the woods off the edge of the parking lot.
 
 
The Imperial Moth was well-named: this one was wider than my hand. 
 They get to be about 4” across in their wingspan.
 
 
The Sleepy Orange butterfly.
If the photo was of this butterfly with his wings out flat, you would see the “orange” of its name.
 
 
The Swamp Cicada.
This noise maker is an annual cicada: they appear every year.  Some cicada species appear every 13 or 17 years.
I really like its brilliant green wing veins.
 
 
The Deep Yellow Euchlaena moth.
The angles in the wing structure and the curves in the color patterns make an interesting and pleasing contrast.
 
 
Skink tail bling!
Notice that I did not name the specie.
Without a clear photo of the side of the face of a skink, I have no way to know if this is a five-lined skink or an immature broad-headed skink.

By JL Ranger Cove: Osprey Family update, 1 photo, 1 slideshow 08/03/2018
Ranger Cove Osprey Family
 
I got to the cove to find Dad osprey sitting on one branch to the left of Brother Piper on the right.
They both looked at me, checked me out and then ignored me.
They sat there for more than 10 minutes.  Once in a while Piper would look hard at Dad.
Finally Piper got tired of just waiting around and he left.  Dad Osprey kept watching life flow by.
It was not until Dad Osprey took flight 12 minutes later that I realized he had been standing on a fish!
No wonder Piper kept looking hard at Dad.
As Dad took flight I heard Broken Feather. She got to the nest as Dad did with the fish.