The Maurepas Swamp. I’ve never paddled through it or ridden through it in a boat. I’ve only driven over it via Highway 55. BUT, it still intrigues me every time I drive over it. So, let’s backtrack to this post I wrote in 2014 that mentions Julia Sims as one of the top influential female…
On a date? Off to college? Off to war? No, I’m not talking about your children here. I’m talking about those cute little fishes that you or child just had to have for the aquarium. In this case, I’m talking more specifically about a Tiger Shovelnose Catfish–a harmless little catfish that comes from the Amazon…
Readers: Thanks so much for reading the previous article about this project and for expressing your desire to know more about what we’re doing and how we’re doing it. Using a series of photos accumulated thus far over the past six weeks of monitoring the nest boxes, I will give you a more in-depth look and…
The prothonotary warbler derives its name from ancient Catholic scribes who were said to wear bright yellow hoods, which these cute little warblers appear to be wearing. As opportunistic as they are brilliant yellow, these eastern warblers are just a little bit lazy as well. If they can find a vacated downy woodpecker nest to…
Well, I had been preparing to post about a recent bass fishing trip with my oldest son and then a photo post about all the different wildflowers that have cropped up in our yard this spring, and then I guess I just sort of got a touch of spring fever. Well, spring fever and a…
Those of a particular generation acquired their first and only knowledge of dolphins through Flipper, the mid-1960s TV series about a precocious dolphin and its relationship with an adolescent boy. In the series, Flipper exhibited high intelligence and an extraordinary understanding of human motives, behavior, and vocabulary. This trained dolphin’s abilities, we now know, reflected the…