Monthly Archives: October 2022
Last Flight of the Marlins
Memories of the Canadian wilderness forty years earlier were still sharp in Dr. Robert Morris’s mind as an old man in the 1930s. A pioneering New York surgeon, he was also a distinguished naturalist, horticulturist, and poet. One day in … Continue reading
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Tagged Eskimo curlew, marlin, Robert Tuttle Morris
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Tracking Whimbrel
An elegant shorebird with a lovely piping call of the wild. After they leave their breeding grounds in the tundra, Whimbrels stop to feed on fiddler crabs in the mudflats of the Eastern Shore of Virginia. By October, they leave … Continue reading
Jamestown is drowning
Historic Jamestown celebrated Archeology Day today with various events and demonstrations to make history seem more authentic. Artifacts discovered on the island in the past 30 years give glimpses of how the first English colonists lived before they moved to … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, James River, Jamestown Island, Jamestown Rediscovery
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Roger musing about Peace with Nature 