James Russell Lowell famously wondered, “And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days…” Of course, he...
September is a ‘tweener month, straddling two seasons and belonging entirely to neither. Helen Hunt Jackson describes this delectable transition in a poem entitled, what else, September:...
September migration is a fine time to appreciate birds on the wing, so fine that many of you may have missed many of our Extinction...
In the few weeks we have been in Palmerston I have been enjoying some great birds and the cycling paths are particularly good and...
Keep your eyes to the skies. Maybe you’ll see a Passenger Pigeon, but probably not… September offers enough worthwhile diversions to make anybody’s head spin,...
So as some folks may have noticed, it seems that the centenniel of the Passenger Pigeon’s extinction is garnering a bit of press. Good,...
It stood like a sentinel at the entrance, lonely, waiting. I was running late, and yet I slowed the car down, to catch as much...
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