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Piping up
April 14, 2020 - Thanks to COVID-19, we Connecticut residents are now not encouraged to cross the border into Rhode Island, which means t...
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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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Migrant search
September 15, 2018 - This morning marked the start of the first guided nature walk I was leading for the Watch Hill Conservancy, the organiza...
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Not quite a rarity
September 11, 2018 - A few weeks ago, the birding hotlines lit up with news that at least one Little Egret, the European equivalent of our Sn...
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Malocclusion, by design
September 04, 2018 - The Black Skimmer—this one's a juvenile who won't get his mourning plumage until next year—would, at first glance, appea...
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Easy parking
August 05, 2018 - Going to the beach on a hot Sunday summer morning was probably an act of insanity, even though I had left early enough t...
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Oh say can you see?
March 11, 2018 - Today marked another wonderful milestone in my ongoing return to full natural history action: a trip to Watch Hill to, a...
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Fear not, paraskevidekatriaphobia
October 13, 2017 - I'm not particularly superstitious, so I, this Friday the 13th, I did not give in to that special fear of that date on t...
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Golden afternoon
September 25, 2017 - The insanely glorious and record-breaking-warm weather continues, and it's really putting a crimp in my productivity. Ab...
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On the Monarch move
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...
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Along the shoremen
August 23, 2017 - After I'd finished up the usual round of work and house work, I had a little bit of time to myself, and I decided to spe...
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Elegant commoner
January 21, 2017 - There was a fairly heavy fog this morning, but, since I really needed to put some mileage on my legs, I figured that I'd...
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Sanderlings presumably
November 17, 2016 - I'm not alone in finding shorebird identification a non-stop challenge, and while I know there are plenty of tricks to m...
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Bucket list
November 13, 2016 - It was beautifully clear and the sun was just coming up when I dragged my weary corpse out of bed—I'm still not sleeping...
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Still oystercatching
October 18, 2016 - Indian summer is one thing, but true summer weather is quite another, so, with the temperature nudging 80, I gave up all...
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On the beach
September 12, 2016 - I know that, a la Louis Pasteur, "chance favors only the prepared mind"—or photographer and naturalist—but hey, sometime...
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Getting plumped
January 21, 2016 - Most of the birding action is now along the shore, so my feet are taking me in that direction. One of my favorite winter...
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On the rocks
January 17, 2016 - On the grayest of gray mornings—a time that, I swear, looked like it wanted to snow—I decided that the time was neverthe...
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