Roads End Naturalist

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

Tag: barred owl

  • My Temple is the Swamp

    …I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most impenetrable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place…I seemed to have reached a new world, so wild a place…far away from human society. ~Henry David Thoreau My last trips to the magical swamps of the Roanoke River happened Read more…

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    Mike Dunn

  • Some Days You Get Lucky

    I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. ~Thomas Jefferson Today was one of those days. Coming back home after a doctor’s appointment, a motion caught my eye while driving past a small roadside vernal pool. I slowed and saw it was a Barred Read more…

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    Mike Dunn

  • Swamp Sounds

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    Natural, ambient sounds give us a picture over time and define place…every landscape has a rhythm to it. ~Dr. Bryan C. Pijanowski There is, indeed, a rhythm to paddling in a swamp, and the sounds help define it. Putting our canoes in at Gardner Creek a couple of weeks ago, we could hear the sounds Read more…

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    Mike Dunn

  • Sunrise to Sunset Owls

    I too felt a slumberous influence after watching him half an hour, as he sat thus with his eyes half open, like a cat, winged brother of the cat. ~Henry David Thoreau, on watching an owl I got a surprise email this week from a friend that had been one of my Yellowstone participants last Read more…

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    Mike Dunn