Coastal Carolinas Nature Calendars with 30+ images, printed on a single 8.5" x 14" metallic photo paper for crisp bright images, are $15. Larger sizes on other media can be ordered. Images below give the common species name and locations. Links to the locations can be found on the Resources page.
Migratory Wetland birds include roseate spoonbills, wood storks, white pelicans, and some of our osprey. Try these viewing locations: OIB gazebo behind the chapel, OIB foot of bridge at the turnout by Lillah (statue), Carl Bazemore Bird Walk, Shallotte Riverwalk, Rivers Edge Public Nature Trail, Vereen Gardens, Airlie Gardens, Huntingon Beach State Park.
Native bloomers can be seen on un-mown roadsides, in pine barrens and pocosin swamps at these viewing locations: Carl Bazemore Bird Walk, Green Swamp Preserve, Brunswick County Botanical Gardens, Piney Ridge Nature Preserve, New Hanover County Arboretum, Airlie Gardens, Brookgreen Gardens, Huntington Beach State Park.
Local cultivated gardens include: Brunswick County Botanical Gardens, New Hanover County Arboretum, Airlie Gardens, Brookgreen Gardens.
Roseate spoonbill 6, Huntington Beach State Park, SC
Loggerhead 1, OIB east end
Swamp hibiscus 1, Carl Bazemore Bird Walk
False Foxglove, Green Swamp Area
Savannah meadowbeauty 2, Green Swamp Preserve
Prickly pear 7, OIB east end
Grassleaf Barbara's-Buttons 1, Green Swamp Area
Rosebud orchid 7, Green Swamp Preserve
Lady tresses orchid 1, Green Swamp Preserve
White-fringed orchid 2, Piney Ridge Nature Preserve
Grass pink orchid 7, Green Swamp Preserve
Violet butterwort 1, Green Swamp Preserve
Venus flytrap 4, Green Swamp Preserve
Crimson/white pitcherplant 2, Piney Ridge Nature Preserve
Bee on Mexican bush sage, New Hanover County Arboretum
Palamedes swallowtail on zinia 2, Brunswick County Botanical Gardens
Monarch on Milkweed, New Hanover County Arboretum
Hummingbird 14, Brunswick County Botanical Gardens
Cucumber 1,Brunswick County Botanical Gardens
Coneflower 9\, Brunswick County Botanical garden
Rose 9, Brunswick County Botanical Gardens
Rose 7, Brunswick County Botanical Gardens
Rose 28,, Brunswick County Botanical Gardens
Rose 23, Brunswick County Botanical Gardens
Camellia 4, Brunswick County Botanical Gardens
Rose bud 3, Brunswick County Botanical Gardens
Camellia 5, Brunswick County Botanical Gardens
Camellia 9, New Hanover County Arboretum
Rose 20, Brunswick County Botanical Gardens
Sunrise 1 , OIB My Deck, Aspect Ration 3:2
Sunset from Beach 8, OIB East End, Aspect Ration 3:2
