Well, OK, more accurately, the eaglet has hatched! For some time, we've been watching our local bald eagle couple, Virginia and James, a...

If you visit this blog fairly often, you know that I enjoy Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge. Well this past Saturday, I did something a lit...

I haven't had as much time as I should to run lately with 13.1 miles coming up in just over three weeks and a 10K just two weeks after t...

We Americans talk about honoring our forefathers, but I jokingly say that I honor my "four mothers." My father was married four ti...

I saw this animal on a short hike yesterday in Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge. I have never been so close to one of these in the wild, an...

As mild as it was today, even should that Pennsylvania groundhog sees his shadow tomorrow and we end up having six more weeks of winter, we ...

Winter in these parts is pretty mild compared to the seventeen years I lived in Maine, where the standing joke was: "We have two season...

See if you can figure out what I saw last weekend on my short hike near Back Bay. Let's eliminate the entire plant kingdom and more th...

What was it I saw on my hike yesterday? As my name implies, I have no hair. But on the other hand, that is kind of a misleading clue, beca...

The animal stepped slowly from the brush onto the side of the gravel road that I was walking along during a return from an hour and a half h...