Tag Archives: Boy Scouts
Look like a Wild Turkey
I want to look like a turkey. Don’t misread me. I want to look like one, not look like a turkey. The eyesight of wild turkeys is superior to every other inhabitant of eastern forests with the exception of raptors … Continue reading
Posted in Animalia, Environment, Nature
Tagged artists and painters, Boy Scouts, cross eyes, First Avenue, Look Wide, Lord Robert Baden-Powell, naturalist, optical brighteners, Rembrandt, strabismus, Wild turkey
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A Hunter’s Heart
Of all the things I remember about being in Boy Scouts, the stories told by Akela, our scout leader, about how to survive in the wilderness have stayed with me over the years. Suburban London children didn’t need to know … Continue reading
Posted in Animalia
Tagged Boy Scouts, childhood, London, naturalist, nature, outdoors
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