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Coyote Capers
Coyotes have the gift of seldom being seen; they keep to the edge of vision and beyond… ~N. Scott Momaday On our last round of trail camera videos, we caught members of the local coyote clan in several places, often alone, and on a few occasions, as a group —-A Coyote trots by a trail Read more…
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Change is in the Air
Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald The change is happening…we have longed for it, and it is starting to tease us with the possibility of cooler nights and sunny, comfortable days. I see it in our woods as well in the plants and critters. New activity Read more…
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Dog Days
Now came the dog days – day after day of hot, still summer, when for hours at a time light seemed the only thing that moved… ~Richard Adams The last week has provided a nice break from the typical heat and humidity of this time of year, the so-called dog days of August. Historically, the Read more…
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Night Beauties
There is something to be said for the night. The darkness holds a sense of promise, as if anything could happen. ~Meg Collett The frequent evening storms have kept me from setting up my moth lights, so with a break in the rain earlier this week, I jumped at the opportunity. I was feeling a Read more…
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What the Cameras See
Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way. ~John Muir While we were away (more on that in a future post), the trail cameras caught some interesting events in our woods. They also caught several deer inside our deer fence Read more…
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Woods Neighbors
My favorite thing is just walking in the woods. I can do it for days on end without tiring of it. ~Jim Harrison This may be why I can’t get to all the posts I need to write about prior adventures…interesting things keep happening here in our woods. We were gone for several days and Read more…
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More Than Just Cicadas
Wherever we go on land, these small creatures are within a few inches of our feet—often disregarded. We would do very well to remember them. ~Sir David Attenborough The sound of periodical cicadas continues to dominate the air here in our woods, but I see more and more of their lifeless bodies scattered about as Read more…
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Cicada Post Addendum
I’m like a fungus; you can’t get rid of me. ~Adam Baldwin Yesterday’s blog on Brood XIX was a brief summary of what I have been doing the past several evenings as I marvel at this occurrence. There are two things I had hoped to find in this year’s emergence after reading more about these Read more…
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That Sound
Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests that they are about to die. ~Matsuo Basho I imagine you are deluged with social media posts and news reports about the spectacle that those of us in this area are living with right now – the emergence of Brood XIX of periodical cicadas. I hesitated adding one Read more…
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Seldom Seen
Coyotes have the gift of seldom being seen; they keep to the edge of vision and beyond… ~N. Scott Momaday As you may have noticed in recent months, I have not written as many blogs as in the past. I will try to do better since there is a lot to share. I’m going to Read more…
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