The fruit of the Chinaberry tree and green leaves of Mistletoe are easier to spot now that the leaves are off the trees.

There are plenty Ring-Billed gulls flying through South Carolina this time of year, scavanging meals as they go.

A listener finds a snake about to have an unusual meal...

Clathrus columnatus, commonly known as the column (or columnar) stinkhorn, has a widespread distribution, and has been found in Africa, Australasia, and the Americas. It may have been introduced to North America with exotic plants.

Rudy shares the words of Bradford Torrey .

The double-crested cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) is a member of the cormorant family of seabirds. Its habitat is near rivers and lakes as well as in coastal areas, and is widely distributed across North America, from the Aleutian Islands in Alaska down to Florida and Mexico.

Usnea is a genus of mostly pale grayish-green fruticose lichens that grow like leafless mini-shrubs or tassels anchored on bark or twigs. The genus is in the family Parmeliaceae. It grows all over the world. Members of the genus are commonly called old man's beard, or beard lichen. Like other lichens it is a symbiosis of a fungus and an alga.

The Carolina wren sometimes overnights in the shelter of a porch.

The patent-leather beetle or "Bess Beetle" (Odontotaenius disjunctus) is most commonly found in climates with higher humidity, mainly in the warmer parts of both hemispheres, and also widely distributed in temperate North American forests. They are usually found under, or inside, old logs or stumps and are rarely observed outside of their wooden habitats.

The sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter striatus) is a small hawk, with males being the smallest hawks in the United States and Canada.