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Carolina Nature Tours

We offer guided walks and hikes in western North Carolina, specializing in birding and plants.

05/28/2026

Kevin caught this tender moment between a pair of Yellow-billed Cuckoos, notice how the male brings in a small insect as a gift for the female.

05/17/2026

Great birds on our tours this past week!
Golden-winged warbler, Chestnut-sided warbler, Least flycatcher, Blackburnian warbler, Orchard Oriole, Cerulean Warbler!

05/13/2026

We celebrated our wedding anniversary yesterday (even though it’s actually tomorrow) with a magical hike on Conserving Carolina’s Trombadore trail. The trail starts at the Bear Wallow Mountain trailhead and ends at Blue Ridge Pastures. We hiked through some spectacular cove hardwood forest and found lots of warblers and wildflowers! Pictured here: Clintonia umbellulata, Canada Violet & Virginia Waterleaf. Such a beautiful day!

05/09/2026

Every spring in late April Cape May Warblers arrive and spend a couple weeks in the Norway Spruce in our front yard. There were several cooperative birds out and about the other day giving us great views! They are always here for Kevin’s birthday in early May so we call them his birthday birds.

05/07/2026

Two different species of Rhododendron blooming at Bear Wallow Mountain earlier this week: Catawba & likely Carolina. I always forget how high the mountain is. Lots of other botanical treasures here too!

05/03/2026

Kevin got some great warbler shots on a private tour last week! Yellow-throated & Cerulean Warblers, a Brown-headed Nuthatch too!

04/21/2026

Saw some great plants on our Lower Cat Gap hike today!

04/20/2026

While I am not able to make it to the official Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage in the Smokies this year, I did make my own annual pilgrimage to Great Smoky Mountains National for spring flowers on Sunday. My daughter and I met up with a good friend in Big Creek and did a short hike on Big Creek Trail. While the flowers were nice on the trail, they were absolutely spectacular on the Baxter Creek Trail which we also explored. Showy Orchis is always one of my favorites. When we lived in Tennessee Yellow Trillium was everywhere and I took it for granted, but we don’t have it here in North Carolina- at least not near Hendersonville. The last photo has a bunch of awesome plants- Wild Ginger, Maidenhair fern. So lush and green! Wish I could have spent longer in this magical spot!

04/18/2026

We had a great Big Hungry Birding day trip last week on the north side of the Green River Gamelands! Prairie warbler on the Bishop Branch Trail, Northern Parula near the dam on Big Hungry Road, just hanging around, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher in the parking lot of the Long Ridge Trail.

04/10/2026

Gorgeous wildflowers at Jones Gap State Park today!

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Hendersonville, NC
28791

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