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Almost open water

January 31, 2018 - It's really too early to be thinking about an early spring, but after yesterday's snow disappeared quickly, I had a chan...
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Shovels await

January 30, 2018 - Sometimes you can stick to your schedule; sometimes your schedule eats you alive. This morning was a case of the latter.
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Liquid water

January 28, 2018 - I never get tired of taking this shot. The weather warms, the stream I long ago named for my son Noah—he used it as a pl...
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Thaw evidence

January 28, 2018 - Showers overnight and this morning gave way to sunnier skies, and after I walked, fast and camera-less, I grabbed the 85...
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Second stroller

January 27, 2018 - It was a reasonably nice day, with temperatures in the 40s and very little wind. I probably should have gone to the dump...
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Meeting the enemy

January 26, 2018 - After considerable hemming and hawing, we finally decided that it might be OK to put up the birdfeeder that son Caleb ha...
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Thorny

January 24, 2018 - I'm normally at least halfway decent at identifying plants with thorns. There just aren't that many of them around here,...
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Fairy cup

January 23, 2018 - Among the many natural history tasks on my to-do is this one: learn the lichens. It's actually been there for a long tim...
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Early bug

January 22, 2018 - It was warm today, almost ridiculously so, with temps in the 50s and an inordinate amount of melting going on. After nig...
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Upstart

January 22, 2018 - Most of last year's perennial wildflowers have gone to ground and are protecting themselves from winter cold in subterra...
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Praying for mantises

January 21, 2018 - Find Praying Mantis egg cases isn't quite as rare as finding deer antlers, but the former is definitely an uncommon sigh...
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Cabin fever cure

January 20, 2018 - I don't normally post images of non-natural-history here, but the day got way ahead of me, what with wiring in a new lig...
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Showoffs

January 19, 2018 - I have a number of natural history touchstones in the neighborhood—places I always check out to keep tabs on nature's pr...
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Mini-icebergs

January 18, 2018 - On yet another futile search at the end of our road by the river, I once again failed to see the fabled Pink-footed Goos...
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The un-woodpecker

January 17, 2018 - Spotting the Pileated Woodpecker I wrote about a couple of posts back was something of a surprise—the great birds are mo...
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Post-Epiphany decor

January 16, 2018 - Just about every conservationist will tell you that, in the list of invasive species, Japanese Knotweed, the bamboo-like...
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Woody is back

January 15, 2018 - I heard the woodpecker long before I saw him... and that's hardly surprising. Pileated Woodpeckers, our largest local me...
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Natural sculpture

January 14, 2018 - Winter isn't over... yet. In fact, winter isn't over, despite what the temperature said recently—pushing 60, with warm,...
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Bridge under exuberant waters

January 13, 2018 - Downpours and temperatures pushing 50 have taken away most signs of winter, including just about all of the snow, and in...
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The great meltdown begins

January 12, 2018 - The recent coy and halting flirtation with actual warmth, which is to say, temperatures consistently above the freezing...
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Opportunity knocks first

January 11, 2018 - It looks like a thaw is genuinely with us, and though it's still below freezing at night—no chance of going without a fi...
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Peeved

January 09, 2018 - It's a little hard to read the mind of a Song Sparrow, so I can't be sure how this bird is reacting to the impending sta...
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The start of the Thaw

January 09, 2018 - It wasn't much, I have to admit, but there were subtle signs of the approach of a January Thaw in the slenderest stretch...
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Pretty bird

January 08, 2018 - The cold wave shows no signs of abating today—there are rumors of January Thaw style moderation on the horizon—but duty...
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Low ebb

January 07, 2018 - True to predictions, it was cold over night... very cold... In fact, when I emerged from under the covers in the dayligh...
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Rarer species

January 06, 2018 - It was below zero cold at daybreak, but the morning warmed to the plus numbers... well, plus single numbers... so, with...
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What Grayson wrought

January 05, 2018 - Finally, a winter storm actually worthy of the name—and the hype. Grayson delivered about a foot of the driest, fluffies...
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A bomb arrives

January 04, 2018 - Winter Storm Grayson, screamed the Weather Channel, was not only going to be the Real Thing, it was going to be The Bomb...
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Hanging on

January 03, 2018 - The weather remains impressively frigid, with this morning's temperature bottoming out at four below and all eyes fixed...
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Downy dilemma

January 02, 2018 - It's so cold on our ridge—the temperature's not forecast to get out of the teens—that much of my activity centers around...
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Happy 2018

January 01, 2018 - It was so cold this morning—I had two below for the minimum—that a number of places actually cancelled their "polar plun...
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