Spangler WOOD & BIRDS

My second consecutive weekend camping on the coast included a black bear-filled day at the Pungo Unit of Pocosin Lakes NWR on the...

A spur of the minute overnight kayak camping trip down east led me to Shackleford Banks and featured some great birds, including two...

Late summer/early fall 2017 ushered in some particularly strong piedmont mudflats, reinforcing this as my favorite time of year to bird...

A Christmas trip to Florida two years ago—specifically, a 12/20/14 kayak trip on the Chassahowitzka River—is what initially motivated me...

With more experience under my belt, and spoiled by the extensive mudflats present last year, I was really looking forward to the fall...

The idea is this: every year in late summer to early fall, the water level in Jordan Lake drops, exposing mudflats at the shallow northern e