Branco Solitary sandpiper Great blue heron (juvenile) Broad-headed skink Canada geese Canada geese honking at Branco Canada geese - a different angle Early morning at the pond Grey squirrel in "bird" feeder Canada geese Canada geese Rose bud Gray squirrel chewing on deer antlers Painted turtles on a log Cattle egret Green treefrog (Dryophytes cinereus) Painted turtle Cooper's hawk Catalpa speciosa Rat snake (Elaphe obsoleta) Pond reflections Ruby-throated hummingbirds Wood ducks Great blue heron (Ardea herodias) "When will those children come out?" "When will those children come out?" My neighbor's beaver pond My neighbor's beaver lodge Female wood duck in fog Water spider Raccoon high in a sweet-gum tree Empty cardinal nest Baby cardinals three days after hatching Three baby cardinals Male eastern bluebird Female eastern bluebird Baby cardinals Zebra swallowtail Canada goose on the pond Hooded merganser (F) Hooded merganser (F) Hooded merganser (F) Hooded merganser (F) TVA power line Wood ear fungus