Dawn Chorus: Birding Long Island- Dune Road
I suspect that most birders think of themselves as lucky to live where they do- almost every location has something interesting to recommend it. I know I consider myself lucky to live within a few...
View ArticleDawn Chorus: A Morning at Alley Pond Park
This week spring migration moved into the northeast like a tidal wave. After weeks of the slow buildup of new arrivals, the floodgates opened on Friday. The New York City Parks were host to a great...
View ArticleDawn Chorus - A Cold Day at Montauk
Lying at the eastern tip of Long Island's south fork, Montauk caters to hoards of vacationers in the summer months, and hides enclaves of the rich and famous trying to escape the Hamptons. During the...
View ArticleDawn Chorus- Birding Costa Rica- Part 1 the Pacific Coast and Osa Peninsula.
In mid August I was lucky enough to spend about 9 days birding and hiking in Costa Rica with a couple of my birding/ biologist buddies. This was my first foray into Central America, but for my three...
View ArticleDawn Chorus- 9 Days in Costa Rica- Part 2- the Interior Highlands and...
Part one of my Costa Rica birding travelogue- San Jose to the Pacific and down to the Osa- can be found here Dawn Chorus- Costa Rica- Part OneAfter spending the better part of a week birding along the...
View ArticleDawn Chorus: A Down Day in Florida? Let's Go Birding!
My carefully laid plans for spending the first weekend of October at the Florida theme parks hit a glitch when one member of the group landed a new job (yeah!) and had to fly down a day late. So with...
View ArticleKKKrybabies and Weeping Nazis- the Prequel
There have been a couple of diaries recently about Christopher Cantwell, one of the stars of the Vice/ HBO documentary about the Charlottesville marches. One of the first I saw was this one...
View ArticleThe Honeypot
For those who have been speculating about the more salacious aspects of the Mariia Butina spy scandal, TPM has posted the US Government’s Request for Pre-Trial Detention. Among the new details...
View ArticleDawn Chorus: Birding Long Island- Dune Road
I suspect that most birders think of themselves as lucky to live where they do- almost every location has something interesting to recommend it. I know I consider myself lucky to live within a few...
View ArticleDawn Chorus: A Morning at Alley Pond Park
This week spring migration moved into the northeast like a tidal wave. After weeks of the slow buildup of new arrivals, the floodgates opened on Friday. The New York City Parks were host to a great...
View ArticleDawn Chorus - A Cold Day at Montauk
Lying at the eastern tip of Long Island's south fork, Montauk caters to hoards of vacationers in the summer months, and hides enclaves of the rich and famous trying to escape the Hamptons. During the...
View ArticleDawn Chorus- Birding Costa Rica- Part 1 the Pacific Coast and Osa Peninsula.
In mid August I was lucky enough to spend about 9 days birding and hiking in Costa Rica with a couple of my birding/ biologist buddies. This was my first foray into Central America, but for my three...
View ArticleDawn Chorus- 9 Days in Costa Rica- Part 2- the Interior Highlands and...
Part one of my Costa Rica birding travelogue- San Jose to the Pacific and down to the Osa- can be found here Dawn Chorus- Costa Rica- Part OneAfter spending the better part of a week birding along the...
View ArticleDawn Chorus: A Down Day in Florida? Let's Go Birding!
My carefully laid plans for spending the first weekend of October at the Florida theme parks hit a glitch when one member of the group landed a new job (yeah!) and had to fly down a day late. So with...
View ArticleKKKrybabies and Weeping Nazis- the Prequel
There have been a couple of diaries recently about Christopher Cantwell, one of the stars of the Vice/ HBO documentary about the Charlottesville marches. One of the first I saw was this one...
View ArticleThe Honeypot
For those who have been speculating about the more salacious aspects of the Mariia Butina spy scandal, TPM has posted the US Government’s Request for Pre-Trial Detention. Among the new details...
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Dawn Chorus -Southeast Arizona- Birding in the Sky Islands- Part I
Few places spur the imagination of North American birders the way that Southeastern Arizona does. There are a lot of great birding spots scattered across the country, but in that relatively small...
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Dawn Chorus -Southeast Arizona- Birding in the Sky Islands- Part II
In last week’s Dawn Chorus I chronicled my birding adventures in the Sierra Vista and Patagonia areas of southeastern Arizona. The mountains, canyons, deserts and grasslands in the southern part of...
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The Daily Bucket- My Bird Race totals for 2021
The Daily Bucket is a nature refuge. We amicably discuss animals, weather, climate, soil, plants, waters and note life’s patterns.We invite you to note what you are seeing around you in your own part...
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Second Groundhog Found Dead- Fowl Play Not Ruled Out
The climate prediction world was upended today when it was announced that Milltown Mel, a longtime prognosticator of early springs, was found dead in his burrow. Mel spent his most productive years at...
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