Roads End Naturalist

Exploring the natural world as we wander at the end of the road


Tag: alligator river national wildlife refuge

  • A Rare Day

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    …a very secretive animal; you rarely see them. ~Paul Rezendes, in Tracking and the Art of Seeing Secretive indeed. I have been lucky over the years to have seen several (about twenty five or so), mainly at Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge. A few others at Alligator River and Mattamuskeet, one in Chapel Hill at Read more…

  • The Wilds Close to Home

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    What makes a place special is the way it buries itself inside the heart, not whether it’s flat or rugged, rich or austere, wet or arid, gentle or harsh, warm or cold, wild or tame. Every place, like every person, is elevated by the love and respect shown toward it, and by the way in Read more…