Joel on May 27th, 2009

 For those of us who care deeply about preserving biodiversity, there  is much in the world to feed our pessimism. But scattered among the examples of diminishing populations are some wonderful exceptions, species  on  an upward trend that are regaining lost territory (and even establishing outposts in places they never were before). I am referring here [...]

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Joel on May 21st, 2009

Louis J. Halle, in his wonderful Spring In Washington (1947) said that the wood warblers are the “principal glory of the North American spring, incessantly active, as bright and varied in color as butterflies.” The best places to revel in the essence of warblerness on the south end of Lake Michigan are the migrant traps. [...]

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Joel on May 6th, 2009

Blogging and Bogging Through the Spring Bird Count
My first foray into the world of blogging! I feel like Margaret Mead in Samoa. This seems especially strange given that I am a Luddite at heart, slowly being dragged into the 21st century. (I am not yet convinced that anything of importance has happened since Martha, [...]

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