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Welcome, fish hawks
March 19, 2019 - This is definitely one of those "picture is worth a thousand words" shots. The Osprey couples are back and tidying up th...
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Irish Day luck
March 16, 2019 - I doubt I have one drop of Irish blood coursing through my veins, but I love corned beef and cabbage, Irish music, and t...
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Almost autumn blues
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...
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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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Usurper
March 23, 2018 - There's a backroad on my route to cardiac rehab, and at this time of the year, it's one of those natural history touchst...
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Angler competition
March 16, 2018 - At least three times a week I spend part of the afternoon driving down River Road, a country lane that borders the Pawca...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Home improvements
March 25, 2016 - I've heard rumors about the return of the Osprey all week, but this gray and raw afternoon, I finally spotted the first...
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