Blues antidote
January 31, 2019 - There's something about the light at the end of January that says, well, it doesn't say winter is over. Not by a long sh...
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Another freeloader
January 30, 2019 - Last winter I put up the new tube feeder that my son have given me, and no sooner did it start to attract birds than it...
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Bully no more
January 29, 2019 - One of the great truths of the playground... and sometimes of the natural world... is that if you stand up to bullies, t...
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Dipteran uncertainty
January 28, 2019 - The warm, January Thaw weather we've been enjoyed is about to undergo a reality check, but while the temperatures remain...
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Flicker, well-grounded
January 27, 2019 - The Northern Flicker that made a surprise visit last week—I don't usually see these striking members of the Woodpecker f...
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Minuscule harbinger
January 26, 2019 - At this quiet time of the year, fresh signs of new life are few and far between. The buds are tight, no early flowers wo...
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Not frozen
January 25, 2019 - In a typical late-January, the surface of the Pawcatuck River in the slower spots upstream from the Potter Hill Dam woul...
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Out of hiding
January 24, 2019 - The cold has moderated enough so that we're probably entitled to call the "heat" wave—it's in the 40s, even after dark—a...
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Avian charm
January 23, 2019 - All birds have personality, but if I had to choose one that defined the term "charm," I think I'd have to nominate the B...
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Re-arrival
January 22, 2019 - I'd seen a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker at the suet feeder at the very end of last year, but while I was trying to figure ou...
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Gone to wolves
January 21, 2019 - Beginning around 11 yesterday evening, the full Wolf Moon, a "supermoon," incidentally, entered the Earth's shadow and,...
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Flickering in the rain
January 20, 2019 - The light snow last night had turned to almost monsoonal rain this morning, and it was ridiculously warm, well into the...
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Disagreement
January 18, 2019 - Sometimes, a not very good photograph can serve a very useful purpose, and so it is with this shot of a Hairy Woodpecker...
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Ice fangs
January 17, 2019 - A species of winter cold is taking over, and with pretty chilly air—normal, historically, but a bracing surprise these d...
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Scarface
January 17, 2019 - The forecast gets more dire, which probably means we'll get very little in the way of snow. But I'm not taking any chanc...
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Heavy breathing
January 16, 2019 - The weather's turning colder, and there's even a possibility of significant snow in a few days. With that, I'm in high g...
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Tiny survivor
January 15, 2019 - C
Common Polypody, also known as Rockcap Fern and Rock Polypody, is a diminutive charmer that is more or less evergreen...
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Sound off
January 14, 2019 - Where summer nature walks are exercises in trying to sort through chaos, winter treks are the polar opposite. There's si...
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Survivor
January 13, 2019 - The Virginia Rockbreaker, a not quite accurate common name—it likes to grow on moss-covered rocks, but I've never seen t...
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Modest ebb
January 12, 2019 - There is painfully little going on in the natural world, as chillier weather and an inordinate amount of writing have de...
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Fast photo
January 11, 2019 - Time has been at a premium this week, and the best I have been able to do is combine a quick cardiac rehab walk with a t...
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Spring (tailing) ahead
January 10, 2019 - One of the surest signs of a warmer-than-usual winter is the appearance of vast congregations of pinhead-sized "insects"...
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Hardy flier
January 09, 2019 - The weather is still warmer than usual, and the moths remain on the wing, at the back porch lights, and lining the hardw...
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Electric climber
January 08, 2019 - When one of my grandsons, who were also my trekking companions, encountered this lethal looking Greenbriar, what struck...
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Cave tale
January 07, 2019 - Despite the "bleak midwinter"—OK, actually, by the calendar, winter is still in its infancy—chill—2nd OK: by my records,...
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Surfing bird
January 06, 2019 - I am not going to try to fool anybody: despite my best intentions to take and document a daily nature trek, there are st...
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Ready and waiting
January 05, 2019 - One of every naturalist's favorite winter activities, yours truly included, is to search the bleak and seemingly lifeles...
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Small stuff
January 04, 2019 - One of my favorite activities for the local conservation organizations I happily serve—besides leading nature walks—is t...
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Natural fireworks
January 03, 2019 - If 2018 had a "greatest hits" list, the amazingly abundant amount of precipitation we "enjoyed" had to be right near the...
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Slow, rewarded
January 02, 2019 - I'm not, by nature, a fast driver, but today, when I was coming home from a walk, I was on a narrow, twisty road and dri...
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Stormy Start
January 01, 2019 - Ir's been a long time... too long a time... since I made the walk to the very end of Napatree Point, my natural history...
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