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Wren, semi-mystery

November 10, 2020 - The gorgeous, Indian summer weather remains camped out in the area, so my mile-and-a-half cardiac rehab walk on the high...
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Menage a quatre

March 25, 2019 - It's still chilly, but I have a public walk for the Avalonia Land Conservancy to plan at my old stomping ground, the Bab...
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Heronry hatchlings

May 14, 2018 - The morning was murky and threatening, but I put the raincoats on the 85mm micro and 100-400mm mini-supertelephoto lens...
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Great luck bird

April 21, 2018 - One of my favorite quotes of all time comes from the nineteenth-century biologist Louis Pasteur, who told his audience,...
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Mallards on the move

February 15, 2018 - I realize these are just mallards... and not exactly the most exciting of waterfowl species. (I think there might be one...
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Pharmacy visit

September 09, 2017 - One of the most useful things about keeping natural history records is that, after a while—several years, at the very le...
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Katy doing

July 22, 2017 - I had a brief hole in what have become almost non-stop busy days and nights, and I quickly took advantage of the happy s...
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Empty nest syndrome

May 31, 2017 - The grim weather continues, and, surprise, surprise, there's more rain and chill in the forecast. This seems to be good...
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Not quite White-eyed

May 14, 2017 - The cold rains finally eased enough this afternoon to permit a camera-laden trek to the Henne Preserve to check on the s...
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Diners, home and away

March 26, 2017 - Little did I know that when I took shots of my granddaughter Stasia enthusiastically and, to be sure, messily, scarfing...
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Out from under

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...
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Aboveground

March 07, 2017 - i can't guarantee that this is the first Chipmunk, or, as my granddaughter charmingly used to call them, Chink munks, th...
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Open air, open water

February 03, 2017 - Phil the Groundhog saw his shadow, auguring a month and a half of wintry weather, but most of his competitors forecast t...
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Avian gold

November 19, 2016 - On yet another walk into the Henne Preserve on an afternoon warm enough to shed my jacket, I had a few things in mind. T...
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Back to it

November 10, 2016 - I can't stay mad forever, and, as if to put an exclamation point on the need to stay here and fight, I discovered, to my...
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Welcome to the swamp, baby GBHs

May 21, 2016 - Another day, another pretty amateurish composite. I was at the Henne Preserve with the Sigma, which, praise be and my go...
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Nursery search

May 07, 2016 - The sun was not the only thing that came out today. When I spotted those welcome rays in the late afternoon—it had raine...
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How to tell a Garter

April 15, 2016 - On my walk today, I ran into an old friend at the Henne Preserve and in the course of chatting about the local birds, th...
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Serious climbing

April 13, 2016 - I spent most of the afternoon at our local middle school, where I volunteer from time to time as an environmental educat...
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Now arriving... tree swallows

March 27, 2016 - Early spring is all about firsts, and at the Henne Preserve that, of course, started with the arrival of the first Great...
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LBJs ID'd

November 29, 2014 - Sparrows, with the exception of White-throats, have never been easy for me, and all too often, I take a quick look, shru...
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