Black snake on the holly

Hopefully, she/he is looking for caterpillars for dinner.

Butterfly Great Spangled Fritillary

I had not seen this butterfly before yesterday. Thankfully, Grant had a readily accessible book on butterflies that helped identify it. Click to enlarge these-nice details on them.

Birds

Here are some recent sighting in the backyard.

Male pileated woodpecker

Turkey vulture

Scarlet tanager in our yard right before the rainstorm last night,

Better late than never

Although it is the end of memorial day weekend I am finally getting around to posting more photos. Some of these are from a few months ago when Spring sprung on the Ridge. If any of you have any photos to share of nature, please do!