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Winter Walks
Go to the winter woods: listen there, look, watch, and “the dead months” will give you a subtler secret than any you have yet found in the forest. ~William Sharp Our two trail cameras have given me a new excuse to walk in our woods every couple of days (to retrieve images) and it has… Read more
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Finally
We usually get what we anticipate. ~Claude M. Bristol It has been a great year for those birds from up north (a so-called bird irruption). This occurs periodically when cone crops fail across vast stretches of Canadian boreal forests. Other factors can contribute, and different species may react differently, but those that migrate far from… Read more
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How Many Birds?
Now Bird-Lore proposes a new kind of Christmas side hunt, in the form of a Christmas bird-census. We hope that all our readers who have the opportunity will aid us in making it a success by spending a portion of Christmas Day with the birds and sending a report of their ‘hunt’ to Bird-Lore before… Read more
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Otterly Fantastic (and more)
The heron and the otter are my friends And we are all connected to each other In a circle, in a hoop that never ends! ~Carl Binder A few days after our virtual program outing, I decided to make a day trip to the refuges for some quiet time watching wildlife. I headed out last… Read more
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Virtual Mattamuskeet
If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it’s a duck. ~Robin Cook Last week, I helped Melissa with a virtual program on waterfowl at Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge. Titled Duck, Duck, Goose, the program was a team effort of museum staff designed for families with the goal of introducing people to the… Read more
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They’re Back and All is Right with the World
Birds have always had the ability to bring me out of a dark space and provide relief in bad times. ~Jason Ward You may have noticed I have fallen way behind in my musings on the natural world this past month. I still haven’t even finished posting about our last road trip back in October!… Read more
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October Surprises
The surprise is that you continue to be surprised. ~Jill A. Davis I interrupt the truck camping travelogue posts to bring you some current yard sightings. We have been gone quite a bit the past couple of months so the “yard” has taken on more of a jungle look. On Friday, I started some long… Read more
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Reaching the Mountains
We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. ~John Muir After driving across the high plains for several days, we finally saw the sharp peaks of southern Colorado reaching for the hazy skies (fires in Wyoming brought smoky skies… Read more
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Heading West
The road is there, it will always be there. You just have to decide when to take it. ~Chris Humphrey Two days before departing on our journey, we finally made plans to head toward Colorado. Why not, right? We had been there last year about the same time and it was beautiful, but this time… Read more
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Wait, What, Again?
A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. ~John Steinbeck Yeah, we did it again. A mere two weeks after we returned from our first… Read more
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