Tag Archives: Chesapeake Bay

Tundra Swans

Posted on February 12, 2022 by Roger Gosden

Hereby begins a short series of our winter visitors. The Tundra Swan is smaller than the other two swans found in Virginia. The Mute Swan was introduced and breeds here, but the Trumpeter Swan like the Tundra is a winter … Continue reading →

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Virginia is for Oyster Lovers

Posted on July 17, 2020 by Roger Gosden

“Why then the world’s mine oyster, which I with sword will open.” Thus, Shakespeare gave us a new idiom in the Merry Wives of Windsor repeated ever since, and Oscar Wilde wielded it with customary wit: “The world was my … Continue reading →

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Shifting Baselines

Posted on January 5, 2014 by Roger Gosden

In 1608 Captain John Smith led a crew of fourteen to explore the Chesapeake Bay in a shallop brought over from England in the hold of the Susan Constant. Leaning over the side of the small craft they could see … Continue reading →