When you're hiking in the Smokies, keep an eye out for snakes - but remember that humans probably see only 10% of the snakes ...

At my home near the border of Western ... North Carolina and East Tennessee, I see migrating and breeding birds, wild turkeys rearing poults, white-tailed deer with their fawns and the occasional ...

Near the border of Western North Carolina and East Tennessee ... their fawns and the occasional black bear. By far the most exhilarating sightings are of snakes. Last year, between mid-July ...