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Heavy Metal Herons

Thursday night after we got our daughter to bed a little on the late side, I stepped out onto our back patio and was surprised to hear screams from the dark woods behind us that sounded every bit like the growl of a death metal singer.

A...

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Four Edgeland Walks

The first time I ever paid much attention to cliff swallows was on a spring day not long after 9/11, as I unloaded my canoe from the car. It was a Saturday morning, and my then second-grader son and I were planning to explore the stretch of...

24 days ago
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Cascarones, meteors, and other Easter eggs

I remember Enron

I was chilling by the pool surrounded by screaming first graders when I saw the object from space.

We spent the second weekend of spring break, which was also the vernal equinox and the official beginning of the new seaso...

a month ago
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The birds and the bees and the Bronson bots

They’re here

Springtime arrived in earnest this week. We saw our first bats of the season fly through last Friday evening, and over the weekend as February turned to March the first flowers appeared around our yard. This year the trees blo...

2 months ago
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Skull season

One morning last week, our year-old Jack Russell Terrier and I found three skulls in the weird woods behind our house. Fifi (so named by our six-year-old daughter) found two of them, proving herself a more capable field companion than I had...

3 months ago
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