One of my neighbors made an appearance this morning after hiding away at home for the winter. My neighbor is a beaver and lives in a lodge catty-corner across the creek. Also, a male-female pair of ...

Air temperature: 58 degrees F Water temperature: 42 degrees F Wind: 20 mph, NNE Sunny. A few patches of snow remain along the trail, the last remnants of winter.

A friend of mine gave me the book Home Ground edited by Barry Lopez. It's a dictionary of idiosyncratic American landscape terms. The definitions are written by a who's-who of nature writers, so its ...

This morning, two cormorants made simultaneous appearances after a winter's absence. A Double-crested cormorant swam and dived in the river channel. The other cormorant perched atop channel marker #9 ...

This morning, when I looked out the parlor window, several flashes of white on the creek caught my eye. I set up the spotting-scope to take a closer look. Hooded mergansers--eleven of them: five mal ...

Yesterday, I had an errand to run to the sloop Clearwater. By dusk, the tide turned and pushed the remaining ice out of the creek. A strong southerly wind eventually calmed, so I decided to put the ...