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Open for business

September 29, 2018 - From all local accounts, this has been yet another rebound year for Monarch butterflies, and many people have born witne...
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Garden gift

September 29, 2018 - Among the end-of-the-growing-season wildflowers, I'd rate the members of the Gentian family at just about at the top of...
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Illuminati underfoot

September 28, 2018 - In the blogosphere of the unhinged, the world is supposed to be controlled by a dark force known as the Illuminati. Peri...
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Soft stalactites

September 27, 2018 - It's been an amazing year, what with our abundant precipitation, for fungi, and everywhere you look, the woods are reple...
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Left behind

September 26, 2018 - One thing on my trekking search agenda has been photographing a Great Blue Heron that hangs out in the plunge pool below...
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Goldenrod turbulence

September 25, 2018 - One of my favorite ongoing projects is to comb the goldenrods for caterpillars and then, after I've found and photograph...
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Left behinds

September 23, 2018 - One of the real joys of my year is the fact that the head of the University of Rhode Island's Environmental Education at...
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Doomsday forecast

September 23, 2018 - I found this fat, furry caterpillar, which was over two inches long, in the leaf litter, and I promptly put it in a smal...
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Home town fest

September 21, 2018 - For the past several years, towards the end of September, my home town of North Stonington has put on a fine, fine celeb...
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Boys from girls

September 20, 2018 - As warm and wet as it has been, the summer's most abundant harvest has probably been the plethora of mosquitoes we're ex...
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Hitchin' a ride

September 20, 2018 - I truly love beetles, and though I am not even close to being an expert on the identity of local members of the order Co...
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Unexpected dinner item

September 19, 2018 - Sometime last year, I bought a bag of "organic potting soil" that was at clearance prices at one of the local hardware s...
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Monsoonal

September 18, 2018 - I had planned on getting out early, but no sooner had I poured a cup of coffee and started assembling the camera gear th...
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Dragonhunter finale?

September 17, 2018 - One of the "inconvenient truths" I discovered during my long recovery from heart surgery is that all of those daily walk...
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Goldenrod dazzler

September 16, 2018 - There are goldenrods in glorious bloom everywhere you look, and one of the tried and true ways that members of the Solid...
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Migrant search

September 15, 2018 - This morning marked the start of the first guided nature walk I was leading for the Watch Hill Conservancy, the organiza...
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Almost autumn blues

September 14, 2018 - I wanted to check out an Osprey nest near the Pawcatuck River, but when I trekked up the power line right-of-way where t...
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Twilight hunter

September 12, 2018 - One of the best parts of the arrival of cooler weather, besides the simple fact that I feel much, much more energetic, i...
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Lawn glow

September 11, 2018 - One of my favorite nighttime activities is to hike the eastern edge of what passes for a lawn—a greensward maintained wi...
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Not quite a rarity

September 11, 2018 - A few weeks ago, the birding hotlines lit up with news that at least one Little Egret, the European equivalent of our Sn...
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Fog hopper

September 10, 2018 - To get a shot that resembles the work of painter Edward Hopper, as I think this image of the Watch Hill Lighthouse does...
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Can you believe it? Yes!

September 09, 2018 - The Red Sox designated hitter, most of the time, is a bona fide slugger and MVP candidate named J.D. Martinez. He's been...
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Sunflower uncertainty

September 08, 2018 - While the impressively large garden sunflowers are well past their August peak, a local native Helianthus is just now co...
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Bringing in the silage

September 07, 2018 - The Harvest Moon, the full moon rising over the landscape closest to the Autumnal Equinox, won't be here for quite some...
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Silver, not gold

September 06, 2018 - Nature's first green may be gold, notes Robert Frost in his classic poem, "Nothing Gold Can Stay," but the floral world...
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Mimicry magic

September 05, 2018 - It's been a summer of depressing abundance for Yellow Jackets, those nasty tempered wasps that, too often, rise out of t...
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Malocclusion, by design

September 04, 2018 - The Black Skimmer—this one's a juvenile who won't get his mourning plumage until next year—would, at first glance, appea...
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Until next year

September 03, 2018 - This just might be the saddest day of the year, and the melancholy only increased because a little before noon, my grand...
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Cannonball!

September 01, 2018 - The formal part of summer, which is to say, the vacation season between the Fourth of July and Labor Day, is fast windin...
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Perplexing mystery

September 01, 2018 - Caterpillars drive me nuts. I really, really need to apprentice myself, if anyone would have me, to an expert—UConn's Da...
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