Tag Archives: naturalist
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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Maungatautari
There’s an Isle, a green Isle, set in the sea… If you guessed Jean Blewett wrote this poem for Ireland on St. Patrick’s Day you are right. But the first line is also a good fit to New Zealand’s green … Continue reading
Posted in Animalia
Tagged conservation, kakapo, kiwi, Maungatautari, naturalist, New Zealand
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Shifting Baselines
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
Posted in Environment
Tagged American chestnut tree, Captain John Smith, Chesapeake Bay, Chief Seattle, Daniel Pauly, Forests, Gaudineer Scenic Area, George Washington, Global warming, naturalist, Ocean health, science, Shifting baselines
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Green Fire
“We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes—something known only to her and … Continue reading
Posted in Animalia
Tagged Aldo Leopold, conservation, Douglas Tallamy, Green fire, invasive species, native plant, naturalist, Virginia, wolf
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