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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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Sez who?
June 01, 2018 - Tomorrow is National Trails Day, and I, of course, am scheduled to lead a public walk, this time to the Avalonia Land Co...
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For MLK Jr., a question
January 16, 2017 - Given how busy every Monday is with writing my weekly natural history column, I wasn't, as is often the case, sure I'd m...
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Blowin', Part 2
November 12, 2016 - On a beautiful, sunny and almost warm afternoon, I hit the trail at the Henne Preserve again to try to capture images of...
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Old Blue Eyes, redux
September 29, 2016 - It hasn't been a very good year for Spreadwing Damselflies, the members of the odonate suborder Zygoptera whose fore- an...
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Another kind of turtle
September 13, 2016 - Last year, when the edge of a nearby wetland was "improved" in an overzealous project, I feared that I had lost a patch...
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Empty nest syndrome
August 31, 2016 - I was beginning to feel that the second young Osprey raised in the Henne marsh was never going to leave its nest and giv...
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Give an Osprey a fish...
August 05, 2016 - I was on Osprey fledging patrol at the Henne refuge this afternoon, and, yet again, I noticed one of the young birds in...
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Hail to the king
August 01, 2016 - I was leading a small natural history walk this evening at the Henne preserve, and while much of the trek was devoted to...
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Bee finding
July 30, 2016 - Maybe it's simply a matter of fate, or perhaps it has something to do with the fact that I'm reading a fascinating and c...
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Predator harassment
July 02, 2016 - As part of a semi-formal Red-headed Woodpecker monitoring project—I'm looking for ghosts at the moment, since the RHPs a...
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Tree flower show
June 20, 2016 - A few days ago, when we were on the road to White Flower Farm in northwestern Connecticut, I noticed that the Catalpa tr...
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A Snapper in the sun
June 12, 2016 - For a variety of reasons, I wasn't going to have a lot of walk time today, so, in the interest of efficiency—I try... I...
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Observing National Trails Day
June 04, 2016 - I couldn't have asked for nicer weather for National Trails Day—or a nicer group of about a dozen or so people who showe...
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A rumor of rattlesnakes
June 03, 2016 - The task for today's trek, as if I ever really needed an excuse for a walk, was to circumnavigate the Babcock Ridge and...
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Cooperative but still uncertain waterthrush
May 27, 2016 - I managed a before-work walk to the Babcock Ridge and Henne preserves, places I needed to check out in advance of a Nati...
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Airborne capture
April 26, 2016 - When you're using a "big gun," one of the hardest things to master is the classic action shot... especially if you're tr...
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Airborne
April 08, 2016 - I was out early this morning to check on how the local Great Blue Herons were faring in the Henne swamp near my house, a...
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Courtship dance
March 23, 2016 - It was a wonderfully warm day, and though I spent much of it indoors writing—virtuous me—I did eventually decide that I'...
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Last meadowhawk?
December 12, 2015 - When the temperature this afternoon soared into the 60s—a new high, I'm pretty sure—I knew that I had a mission: to visi...
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In focus
November 27, 2015 - The day after the feast, we needed to go for a hike, and since my granddaughter was with us and my wife wanted to test h...
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Unexpected eagle
November 23, 2015 - I easily could have missed this sighting. The large raptor made no sound whatsoever, but a few minutes before I noticed...
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Red-headeds return
November 21, 2015 - Several Novembers ago, my wife surprised me with the news that she thought she might have seen a Red-headed Woodpecker a...
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Uneaten lily
July 25, 2015 - The day lilies have been blooming in gardens and along the roadsides since the beginning of the month, but the native wi...
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Welcome home
June 15, 2015 - The baby Great Blue Herons, fuzzballs only a few weeks ago, are taking on the look of gangly adolescents. They've stretc...
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Lepidopteran punctuation
May 05, 2015 - I thought today would be the first dragonfly day, and I headed out to the Henne preserve hopeful of coming home with the...
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Reptile's return
April 13, 2015 - On visits to Henne, I've been scanning the air for signs of returning migrant birds and the water for signs of resurrect...
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Sleeping marsh
October 28, 2014 - On a delightfully warm, Indian Summer afternoon, my path brought me to the boardwalk at the Henne preserve, and there, I...
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