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October 06, 2020 - I'll be the first to admit it: this is a truly awful photograph—an image that, under normal circumstances, would never m...

July 02, 2020 - When the owner of a nearby field decided that it was looking too unkempt and needed to be mowed regularly, I knew that s...

August 11, 2019 - It was another day of short mileage... short, but productive mileage. I didn't get any farther afield than across the st...

July 23, 2019 - I'm not sure exactly what kind of milkweed this is, save that it's certainly not our common species, Asclepias syriaca,...

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...

September 24, 2017 - Summer just doesn't want to quit, and with the temperature in the upper 80s this afternoon, I finished up the work that...

April 13, 2017 - After the necessary trip to the town dump... er, landfill... no, make that transfer station... my reward for the hard wo...

March 08, 2017 - The day warmed fast after a chilly start, and after I'd gone on a reconnaissance hike to the Benedict Benson Preserve, a...

July 20, 2016 - Whenever I spot a butterfly whose identity I'm not certain of, I'm increasingly careful not to dismiss it as, well, in b...

June 28, 2016 - I saw the inert Painted Turtle shell from the road, and because the reptile remained in its spot when I approached its r...

June 27, 2016 - Today's agenda was a walk to the Bell Cedar preserve to help develop the right management strategy for the old field I l...

April 19, 2016 - In the butterfly appearance serial that is currently unfolding, I finally got Lepidopteran Number Three to sit still lon...

March 15, 2016 - These days, I have an agenda whenever I head out for a walk... and finding the first Mourning Cloak butterfly is always...

August 18, 2015 - Joy sometimes comes unexpected and in small packages. This was certainly the case around noon time, when, feeling very s...