Roads End Naturalist

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

Tag: prothonotary warbler

  • 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…

    Written by

    Mike Dunn

  • Swamping Again

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    The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness, and of a freedom almost forgotten. ~Sigurd F. Olson The Swamp Queen (aka Melissa) did it again…planned a canoe/camping adventure to our favorite swamp destination, the Roanoke River. So, last week, we headed east to spend a planned 6 days paddling over 50 miles Read more…

    Written by

    Mike Dunn

  • Roaming the River of Life

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    A river is the most human and companionable of all inanimate things. It has a life, a character, a voice of its own, and is as full of good fellowship as a sugar maple is of sap. It can talk in various tones, loud or low, and of many subjects grave and gay…For real company Read more…

    Written by

    Mike Dunn