Beach greeters
May 26, 2019 - It was definitely a day for Amos Lake, which opened for the season yesterday and was wonderfully inviting this warm afte...
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Pretty in pink
May 25, 2019 - If I had more time and space, I'd expand this blog to cover all of the important natural history events of each and ever...
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Shade-saving "miracle"
May 24, 2019 - There are no Gypsy Moths around, but that doesn't mean that we're free and clear from defoliation. It was, apparently, a...
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Dogwood days
May 23, 2019 - This has been a genuinely fine year for our native dogwoods. They started blooming about a week early and they've just k...
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Admiral ahoy
May 22, 2019 - I've been spotted the stunning Red Admiral butterflies off an on again for a week or so, but as the temperature has star...
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Welcome arrival
May 21, 2019 - Everything has been insanely slow this year, and while this is, no doubt, attributable to the insanely slow arrival of g...
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A time to plow
May 20, 2019 - Over the weekend, when I was gabbing with the folks who attended my Avalonia walk, one of them from the Big City... prob...
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For the bunnies... I hope
May 19, 2019 - The Avalonia Land Conservancy's Bell Cedar Swamp preserve is, without a doubt, one of my favorite refuges, both because...
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Uncertain serpent
May 18, 2019 - It was a bright. beautiful day for a public trek, and I was graced with a small but wonderfully attentive group of fello...
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May love
May 17, 2019 - The top image, of course, should really have appeared on Valentine's Day, but in February, the Cardinals weren't in the...
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Thanks to young eyes
May 16, 2019 - This entry in the journal could have been about "the one that got away," and, in all honesty, it was beginning to look l...
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Racer relations
May 15, 2019 - I have a public walk coming up this Saturday, so, to prepare for it, I had to do an advance trek... tough assignment, bu...
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Bobolink bounce
May 14, 2019 - The Bobolinks are back from South America, and they're setting up shop in one of the, alas, few places left for them to...
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Waterlogged
May 13, 2019 - Even I, perhaps the most drought-phobic human in the northeast, am, after a record-setting number of days of measurable...
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Catbird collision
May 12, 2019 - Every time I hear a thud against the kitchen window, I cringe. The noise means that a bird has mistaken the glass for c;...
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Out of sync
May 11, 2019 - There may well be no prettier May blossom than the tube-lobed flower of the Wild Columbine. And, for the Ruby-throated H...
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Apple blossom time
May 10, 2019 - It was an unusually dreary day, with rain and cold and the surprising need to keep the woodstove going. I walked a bit a...
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Lepidopteran poetry
May 09, 2019 - Robert Frost wrote about a "blue butterfly day" in a poem with that very title, and in it, Frost described seeing "sky f...
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Mystery... fungus?
May 08, 2019 - Today's trek took me into the heart of what appears to be a bona fide fen—a kind of peat-forming wetland whose water is...
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Newborns
May 07, 2019 - In truth, the world needs more Canada Geese that it needs, well, you insert your favorite non -need. Even so, the first...
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Close call
May 06, 2019 - There are all sorts of migrant songbirds starting to call and challenge the ears, to say nothing of dazzling the eyes. B...
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Trouble in suetland
May 05, 2019 - As if we didn't already have enough trouble keeping the suet cage on the tree... We know that squirrels will sometimes e...
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Show-off tree
May 04, 2019 - For some unknown reason—perhaps it had something to do with the chilly, overcast skies—the local Tree Swallows that have...
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Pretty pest
May 03, 2019 - Garlic mustard is actually a rather pretty plant—and a useful one, too, in that, in spring, the leaves, shoots, flowers,...
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Snow and rice
May 02, 2019 - Many, many years ago, I discovered a mail-order nursery in northwestern Connecticut known as White Flower Farm. It was m...
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Birthday presents
May 01, 2019 - Whether I deserved it or not... whether I expected it or not... I managed to turn 69 today, and after an earlier celebra...
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