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Butter-and-eggs are in full bloom, thanks to a late-October warm spell

It was early in the morning before the sun had come up, and I was tasked with the weekly chore of taking the garbage out to the curb.

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The Recorder - Speaking of Nature: Man vs. squirrel, round 2

In last week’s column, I featured the American red squirrel and I shared a photo of one of these rascals solving the puzzle of one of my birdfeeders. “How, do I get those peanuts?” it must have wondered and in relatively short order it managed to get...

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The Recorder - Speaking of Nature: The grand deception of the northern mockingbird

I have no idea how many photos exist in my personal collection, nor, I am afraid, will I ever know. I can say (definitively) that in the past 6 years I have taken exactly 104,308 photos, but that is where “exact” comes to a close. My records prior to...

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The Recorder - Speaking of Nature: 22,000 photos: An unexpected milestone

It was the Sunday after Thanksgiving and, once again, I was up early. The sunrise that morning was one of those spectacular events when the sky actually seemed to be the ceiling of a cave that was being lit from below. Joules Verne would have used...

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The Recorder - Speaking of Nature: Remnants of the past: The princess pine

A walk in the winter woods can be a surprisingly interesting activity if you know what to look for. With the leaves off of most of the deciduous trees (except the American beech, which retains many of its dead leaves throughout the winter) there isn’t...

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The Recorder - Speaking of Nature: Examining the rules of nature photography

The world of wildlife photography is an interesting one. First, there are the difficulties associated with actually taking the photographs. In the days when I first got started (back at the end of the 20th century) the difficulties were almost beyond...

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The Recorder - Speaking of Nature: The effects of this summer's drought on the winter ahead

Winter is on the horizon and I have been making preparations for her arrival. The lawn must be tended to one more time. Wood must be moved, stacked and covered before the snow falls. Leaves must be removed from gutters before they freeze into a...

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The Recorder - Speaking of Nature: Like father, like son: Big and Little Bruce

Regular readers of my column might remember a story that I did back at the end of August that featured a predatory interaction between a mantis and a northern cardinal. Due to limitations of space I was unable to discuss the particular bird that was...

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The Recorder - Speaking of Nature: Seasonal fox sparrow sightings short but sweet

One of the beautiful things about living on planet Earth is the cycle of the seasons that marks the passage of time. Up here in the north it’s cold for part of the year, warm for part of the year, and there are seasons of transition from one extreme...

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The Recorder - Speaking of Nature: Wondrous story of American oystercatcher No. 1105-16724

In 1988, at the tender age of 20, I spent the summer field season on an Island in Maryland’s Chincoteague Bay. I worked for the Maryland Colonial Waterbird Project and I spend the entire summer capturing, banding and tracking all sorts of birds:...

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