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Toronto, Monarchs, and an ambushed fly

By Charlie August 25, 2008 3 comments

I spent yesterday in Toronto and nipped across to the Islands - a small group of now-stabilised sandbars a short ferry ride from downtown - looking for migrants. A combination of my jet-lag and the Islands’ slowly turning into a loud and brash amusement park contributed to the feeling that either most of North America’s [...]

Three Insects at Jamaica Bay

By Corey July 29, 2008 2 comments

Monday was a well-spent vacation day.  Why?  Well, Charlie was in town and we went birding at Jamaica Bay!  I’ll leave it to Charlie to tell the tale of the birds we saw and didn’t see and stick to three of the insects that we spotted: a fly, a butterfly, and a cicada.  Charlie also [...]

Red Lacewing Butterfly

By Charlie June 20, 2008 2 comments

When I was not revelling in numerous species of terns yesterday (June 19th) I spent a happy hour on Po Toi trying to photograph some of the island’s stunning butterflies. One in particular I spent a while trying to sneak up on was the large, bright, and very active Red Lacewing Cethosia biblis: I’m glad [...]

Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America

By Mike April 25, 2007 2 comments

The acquisition of a new field guide is always a joyous occasion, signaling either an impending journey or impending answers to old questions. By the latter, I’m referring to those unclosed cases that accumulate any time a nature lover ventures outdoors armed with a camera but not a clue. As you can imagine, my digital [...]

Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland

By Charlie April 20, 2007 No comments yet

Some years ago I thought that birds were where “natural history” started and birds were where “natural history” finished. Yes, there were Tigers and Snow Leopards, I wanted to Save the Whale, those glossy-red mushrooms that could kill you from across the room were pretty cool in a morbid kind of way, hairy spiders and [...]