A visit to the Home Depot sometimes yields more than hardware and tool. The wetlands behind the Home Depot in Seekonk, MA are home to a rookery of …
How It All Began
These little guys--Red-breasted Nuthatches--used to be a regular at my suet feeders during the winter. Then for a few years none appeared. This …
Osprey Monitoring
Every week, from April through August, volunteers in Rhode Island head forth to check on Osprey nests. The monitoring program, overseen by the Audubon …
Looking for the King
Recently I went looking for the king--the King Eider, that is. King Eiders are an Arctic species, usually seen only in Alaska in the United States. …
African Penguins
A colony of African Penguins (Spheniscus demersus), also known as Jackass Penguins because of their call, nestles on the Cape Peninsula in South …
Cape Sugarbirds
Did you know there is an entire floristic kingdom almost exclusively found in South Africa? It's called "fynbos," the Afrikaans name meaning …