Inge captured this beauty perched in a tree watching spivvy cedar waxwings feeding in a holly tree. The berry eaters ought to be grateful their guardian stood close by that day until giving up to hunt other small birds and mammals or frogs and snakes.
I am waylaid by Beauty. Who will walk
Between me and the crying of the frogs?
Oh, savage Beauty, suffer me to pass
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
See a Red-tail sitting on three eggs at the Cornell Labs live cam in Ithaca, NY
There is something magisterial about the biggest living things on Earth. We are the most intelligent, the most prolific, and the most polluting species but we dont tower in height over everyone. We look up at some animals and plants
I have posted articles about reproductive medicine, science, and population on Substack at Whats Hot in Fertility? since the spring of 2024. And shortly I will launch new literary work on my Personal Substack at https://gosden.substack.com/p/welcome-to-my-personal-substack. I hope you will
We have a similar birth date and the same hometown, but otherwise I have nothing in common with Charles III, except a passion for nature that grew out of childhood and has never faded. I am no apologist for monarchy,