An Amateur Naturalist documents his wanderings in Shenandoah National Park

• Monarch
• Mourning Cloak
• Comma
• Another Comma
• Red Admiral
• Zebra Swallowtail
• Pearl Crescent
• Great Spangled Fritillary (above)
• Great Spangled Fritillary (below)
• Meadow Fritillary
• Red-Spotted Purple
• Hackberry Emperor
• Tawny Emperor, above
• Tawny Emperor, below
• Northern Pearly Eye, below
• Northern Pearly Eye, above
• Little Wood Satyr, above
• Little Wood Satyr, below
• Painted Ladies
• Painted Lady, closer view
• Painted Lady, underneath
• American Lady, on thistle
• Sleepy Orange, on heal-all
• Eastern tailed-blue
• Gray Hairstreak, on nodding wild onion
• That same Hairstreak, rare (for me) shot of upper side
• Juniper Hairstreak
• Early Hairstreak
• Banded Hairstreaks
• Brown Elfin
• Male Zabulon skipper
• One of the plume moths (Pterophoridae)
• Bluish Spring moth
• Damselfly
• Michaux's saxifrage
• Bishop's cap
• Bishop's cap, golden ragwort, columbine, on Cedar Run trail
• Blazing Star
• Puttyroot
• Bear descending tree
• Another look at the bear
• A different bear (scratch)
• That bear in context
• Grey Fox in my yard
• Same Fox, different photo
• Entwined rattlers: males dancing, or male/female mating?
• Lower Falls on White Oak Canyon, February 2006