Author Archives
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Contact! Contact! My Musings on the Hunt
Consider Thoreau’s stirring words: ‘think of our life in nature, — daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, —- rocks, trees, wind in our cheeks! the solid earth! the actual world! the common sense! Contact! Contact!… Read More ›
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Hiking the Gibson Lake Loop, Frontenac Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada
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Hiking in Frontenac
A photo montage of a recent hikes in and around Frontenac Park, Ontario, Canada.
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Bird Courses
I highly recommend the online Ornithology courses that Cornell University offers through the Bird Academy. The courses are very well laid out and can be taken at your own speed. I am in it the midst of two — a… Read More ›
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Research at the Wet Collection
One of the most fascinating exhibits, that also serves as a functioning research room, is the Wet Collection of the Museum fur Naturkinde, in Berlin, Germany. This room is huge housing thousands of bottled specimens of preserved animals from around… Read More ›
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Dragonfly
A juvenile Slaty Skimmer?
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Over Toronto
Flying over Toronto, heading into Pearson. A Beautiful city!
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Over Greenland
Spectacular views from flight over Greenland. You can see a bit of the icecap in some of the pictures.
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Wandering in the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Some pictures of interest in the museum in Berlin. The large insect models were something special as was the room referred to as the Wet Collection. Dramatic fossils of a T-Rex (aka Tristan) and the original Archaeopteryx .
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Fox Down the Lane
Small baby fox along Birch Point Lane, South Frontenac Township. What did the fox say?
Walden Ponderings 