Weymouth Woods

Howdee all,

Last Saturday after watching the Southern Pines annual Christmas parade…

Jeff and I needed a walk, so we went to one of our favorite spots for walking and birds here in the Sandhills of NC.

Weymouth Woods

There seem to be many Red-breasted nuthatches in the area this year.

  Plenty of Golden-crowned Kinglets also.

We walked the paths thru the Longleaf Pine forest.

Wonderful lighting..

Long shadows..

An American crow was clucking..

See the young Longleaf pine trees in the middle?

This is the habitat for the Red-cockaded woodpecker.

We didn’t see any this trip.

I did find some lovely Turkey tail mushroom

And an amazing huge hole

I didn’t see any birds near it.

What do you think?

Piliated Woodpecker?

I love this bark..

I take a photo of this tree just about every time we visit.

Hermit thrush

A few Maple leaves shining in the sunlight.

 

Jeff waiting for me on the bench while take photos.

A young Longleaf pine

More shadows and sunlit grasses.

We saw a herd of 20 deer in the distance.

See the pathway..

its sand..

We are in the Sandhills region of NC

The Sandhills is a region in the interior of the U.S. states of North Carolina and South Carolina. It is a strip of ancient beach dunes which generally divides the Piedmont from the coastal plain, and is the evidence of a former coastline when the ocean level was higher, or the land lower. The beach deposits were formed principally during the Miocene Epoch, circa 20 million years ago. Typical beach fossils are found along the front edges. The coastal plain is terraced from other ocean levels, but none appear to have been so long-lasting, so as to build up dunes of this size.

 

 

Pine Warbler

Here I am shooting shadows again..It was a wonderful day for shadows.

Brown Creeper

We ended our walk with a look at the feeders

Brown-headed nuthatch

Caroline Chickadee

Always a pleasure to visit Weymouth Woods

 

Birds of the Day

Weymouth Woods Nature Preserve
Traveling
1.5 miles
80 Minutes
Observers: 2
All birds reported? Yes
Comments:  
Submitted from BirdLog NA for iOS, version 1.5.1
 Turkey Vulture
 Red-shouldered Hawk
 Mourning Dove
 Red-headed Woodpecker
 Red-bellied Woodpecker
 Pileated Woodpecker
 Blue-headed Vireo
 American Crow
 Carolina Chickadee
 Red-breasted Nuthatch
 White-breasted Nuthatch
 White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)
 Brown-headed Nuthatch
 Brown Creeper
 Carolina Wren
 Golden-crowned Kinglet
 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
 Eastern Bluebird
 Hermit Thrush
 American Robin
 Northern Mockingbird
 Yellow-rumped Warbler
 Pine Warbler
Eastern Towhee
 White-throated Sparrow
 Dark-eyed Junco
 Northern Cardinal