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Still ticking

November 30, 2018 - I don't know why I haven't done so already, but I have never made the slightest effort to become an expert on a group of...
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Upstart

November 29, 2018 - At the very least, I manage to make trips to the wood pile several times a day, so that has to count for a daily natural...
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Crinkled

November 27, 2018 - The days continue to slip away from me on the natural history front, but I do manage a brief walk or two after dark. Equ...
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Leaf leaping

November 27, 2018 - When I started this more-or-less daily blogging endeavor more than five years ago, my self-imposed mandate was to chroni...
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Frozen, leaf edition

November 26, 2018 - The cold remains solidly in place, and speaking of solids, the millpond is wearing a coat of thin ice across its entire...
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Finch dive

November 25, 2018 - Shoot enough pictures and sometimes you get lucky and come up with a real winner. I don't like to brag, but I think this...
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Fantastical

November 24, 2018 - While there's a suggestion that a warming spell might be in the offing soon, it hasn't arrived yet and my morning trek a...
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Natural thermometer

November 23, 2018 - The weather turned sharply colder yesterday for Thanksgiving, and this morning, the temperature nudged the single digits...
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Big Game day

November 21, 2018 - On Turkey Day, most families, we're told, celebrate by watching football. Our tradition, now at least a half-century old...
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Sous-chef

November 21, 2018 - This was a busy, busy day and, before the Thanksgiving festivities, there was no time to do much trekking, besides the i...
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A minor mystery

November 20, 2018 - In the five years I've been putting together this documentation of my corner of the natural world, I've never done what...
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Cold but hot

November 18, 2018 - Annoyingly, I've had no time recently to do much more than walk to the mailbox and back... not exactly a way to fulfill...
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What's for dinner

November 18, 2018 - I began work on a biological survey of a newly acquired refuge for the Avalonia Land Conservancy today, but it turns out...
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Mephitic preview

November 17, 2018 - The snow continues to hold on in a few of the shadier and cooler spots, but there's barely more than a frozen crust—and...
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Late-autumn leaves

November 16, 2018 - The snow changed to rain later on at night, and though I got in 10 laps of cross-country skiing in the backyard track—pr...
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Not-Quite-Winter-Storm

November 15, 2018 - All day long—a definitely cold one during which the temperature never rose above freezing, which, by my reckoning, made...
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Bark, silvered

November 14, 2018 - The air is taking on a definite chill, and there's downright genuine cold in the forecast for tomorrow with... gasp... t...
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Invertebrate camel

November 13, 2018 - There's been a return to warmish air and yet more incredible downpours, but with the rain finally over this evening, I g...
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Icy arrival

November 12, 2018 - The decision I made yesterday to pick that mini-rose in advance of the predicted cold snap turned out to be a great one.
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Rose finale

November 11, 2018 - It's been almost unnaturally warm, but the temperatures have begun sliding in the opposite direction, so when I spotted...
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Night hunt

November 10, 2018 - One of the best parts of my "job" as a nature documentarian is that I have access to the newest and most improved field...
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An old cold-weather friend

November 08, 2018 - Last year, I had the wonderful experience of talking to the "lightning bug lady," a.k.a. Lynn Frierson Faust, about her...
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Warm spice

November 08, 2018 - Most of the colorful foliage is fast falling off the trees and shrubs, but if you take the time to look for autumn leave...
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Fun with fungi

November 07, 2018 - Some of the mushrooms are big and obvious, but other members of the Kingdom Fungi are easily overlooked. Of course, it's...
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The other kinglet

November 06, 2018 - There's heavy rain in the forecast—yet again—and while the deluges, if they in fact arrive, will no doubt keep my photo...
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The last anemone

November 05, 2018 - The day after Halloween, November greeted me with warmth and a stunning flower that crowned a tall and, truth be told, p...
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Out of eclipse

November 04, 2018 - There was definitely a chill in the air today, a genuine sharpness that could only have said one thing: fall. The breeze...
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Color's end

November 03, 2018 - The annual autumn color display arrived much later than usual, and once it came, it didn't stay long, particularly in th...
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SS, find home

November 02, 2018 - Anyone who knows me even slightly soon discovers my affection for amphibians. This love often, particularly in the early...
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A proper Indian Summer

November 01, 2018 - We've had a genuine killing frost and so, with the temperature today well up in the 60s, we can now properly call the we...
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