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Something New Every Day
Walking the Berkshires | August 19th 2008
Here are some random facts I have learned this week. The meaning of "Fennicisation": to alter a word from another language to make it more like Finnish. What Anglicization is to English. (encountered at Aardvarchaeology) The first time a Gatling... read more
Bear Necessities
Walking the Berkshires | August 18th 2008
(Sign available at Animal Den) One of the central underpinnings of conservation biology is that just about every terrestrial habitat type - from southern New England calcareous sloping fens to the fynbos of South Africa - occurs where it does... read more
Red-spotted Newts
sectionhiker.com | August 18th 2008 by Philip Werner
I took a long day hike this morning in search of the Catskills Aqueduct which flows underground through the Mohonk Preserve. Along the way, I spotted a lot of wildlife including a swimming beaver, white-tailed deer, wild turkeys and a unusual congreg read more
Asian Longhorned Beetle Makes it in Massachusetts
Walking the Berkshires | August 17th 2008
The best way I know to absolutely kill an otherwise cheerful conversation over cocktails (aside from gross breaches of decorum) is to tell your companions that just about every tree species they know and love is poised to succumb to... read more
Natural History Museum
BABYCCINO! Kids and the City | August 17th 2008 by Babyccino
It is a marvel of a museum, a truly beautiful building with extraordinary exhibits. The Natural History Museum here in London first opened its doors in 1881, and his home to some of the most fascinating and rare objects (like the heaviest woolly mamm read more
"I Want To Go To The Science Museum"
Grizzled Old Traveler | August 12th 2008 by Sean McLachlan
When you hear your 2 1/2 year-old son say this, you know you're doing something right. As I mentioned in a previous post, Julian has become obsessed with the Oxford Museum of Natural History. Now when he wakes up he asks to go there. He needs to see read more
New York History - A History Of Taxidermy
Adirondack Almanack | August 12th 2008 by Adirondack Almanack - New York History Blog
Hunters, fishermen, and those interested in taxidermy may find my recent post at New York History interesting. The story includes the "world's largest mounted fish, maybe the largest piece of taxidermy in the world" - a 73-year-old, 32-foot, mounted read more
Rock Tripe
sectionhiker.com | August 10th 2008 by Philip Werner
Rock tripe is an edible lichen found in eastern parts of the US that is commonly found on rock faces and cliffs. It is very sensitive to air pollution, so when you see it growing abundantly, chances are good that the air around you is unpolluted. An read more
Bailey the Bobcat: Free at Last
Walking the Berkshires | August 8th 2008
This is a story about latent instinct and second chances. It begins in the days of my youth when it was still a rare event to see a flock of wild turkeys in eastern New York and before some of... read more
The Greatest Show Above
Walking the Berkshires | August 7th 2008
When we moved to Canaan six years ago (on Emily's second birthday), I started to put stars in her sky. Instead of random patterns of glowing stickers, I tried to map out the constellations of late August over her bed... read more
Fun Packed Week
Shooting Star Jewellery Designs | August 5th 2008 by Shooting Star Jewellery Designs
The past week has been very busy. Last week, having got an Orange Wednesday cinema ticket and a 2 for 1 voucher for Pizza Express, we headed to Gunwharf Quays to see The Dark Night and have a meal out. The film was brilliant, very dark and gripping. read more
Walking After Midnight
Walking the Berkshires | August 4th 2008
I got back late at night from visiting a friend Sunday evening. I stepped out of my car and glanced up at the sky and froze, head cocked back and eyes wide and wondering. I haven't seen a starry night... read more
Maria Sibylla Merian & Daughters at the Getty
The Rongovian Academy of Fine Arts | July 31st 2008 by Q. Cassetti
Merian's Crocodile from the Princeton Digital LibraryI was clicking around and found this croc and art by this artist and was floored. Today I was nosing around to see if red or black ware was Greek or Roman at the Getty siteto find out that there is read more
Driftwood and Fishwheels: Yukon Impressions
Walking the Berkshires | July 30th 2008
My homeboy Jim has a peach of a post at his blog Borrowed Suits, the first in a projected series of three about his recent trip to bang nails way up the Yukon in Alaska. “Alaska” has never been as... read more
How Much is that Redcoat (of Scarlet or Dusty Rose)?
Walking the Berkshires | July 28th 2008
J. L. Bell, always ahead of the curve on matters relating to 18th century America, alerted readers at Boston 1775 - even before NPR covered the story - of a move in Philadelphia to test and license historic tour guides... read more
Steve on the fast lane
Gallicissa...a birder in an endemic hotspot | July 27th 2008 by Amila Salgado
The sun was still struggling to appear through the thick carpet of grey clouds when we made our first leg stretch on the way to Sinharaja. I was on a day tour with Steve Lane, a keen British birder. With memberships in the British Dragonfly Society read more
Raising A Museum Junkie
Grizzled Old Traveler | July 25th 2008 by Sean McLachlan
One of the best parts about parenting is seeing your kid excited about something you love, and I've discovered that Julian is a bit of a museum junkie like his papa. We're in Oxford at the moment, and I've been taking care of him in the mornings whil read more
1800s Natural History Survey of New York Online
New York History | July 24th 2008 by Adirondack Almanack - New York History Blog
The mid-1800s Natural History Survey of New York has been posted online at the New York State Library here. According to a recent note from the Library's staff: The Natural History Survey of New York, undertaken in the mid-1800s, covered zoology, fl read more
making emma happy - part 2
Gallicissa...a birder in an endemic hotspot | July 21st 2008 by Amila Salgado
We heard it from a distance and knew we were approaching another flock. We had walked about 2 hours towards the research camp in the morning. Although, the flock we had the day before contained the usual suspects, in all honestly, it made us work har read more
Spangled with flowers
andrew from london | July 20th 2008
Sometimes when I go to see my Milbank client I drop into the Tate Gallery. Recently I saw the Return of the Gods exhibition of neo-classical sculpture (and didn’t enjoy it, which doesn’t bode well for my participation in Kim Blacha’s planned t read more
An unusual crop in the fields
andrew from london | July 18th 2008
Driving home in the warm sunshine (the air fresh after a recent shower of rain) on a whim I turned off the road to go down a lane I have never been down before. Above: Beyond the tumbledown drystone walls I noticed an unusual crop in the fields. Abov read more
making emma happy - part 1
Gallicissa...a birder in an endemic hotspot | July 17th 2008 by Amila Salgado
Emma and Alex were on the beach-leg of their Sri Lankan holiday when I picked them up from the Bentota Beach Hotel on 8 July for a 2-day birding & natural history trip to Sinharaja rain forest. On the way, we had several wayside birding attractio read more
"What if a Much of a Which of a Wind"
Walking the Berkshires | July 17th 2008
"what if a much of a which of a wind gives the truth to summer's lie; bloodies with dizzying leaves the sun and yanks immortal stars awry? Blow king to beggar and queen to seem (blow friend to fiend: blow... read more
"Sharks Patrol These Waters"
Walking the Berkshires | July 15th 2008
Nothing like a big dorsal fin to put a damper on a hot July day at the shore. The Boston Globe reports that a 6 1/2-foot long great white shark has washed up on a Nantucket beach. This comes on... read more
Three gems in my garden
Gallicissa...a birder in an endemic hotspot | July 14th 2008 by Amila Salgado
Adam's Gem Libellago adami - female Three fetching females of this endemic damselfly was recorded on 28th June in my home garden. This species proved to be a lifer, a garden tick and endemic no:2 in my garden. They were sitting pretty on three leave read more
Honorable Vegetables
The Pen & The Spindle | July 12th 2008 by Heather Vallance
My grandmother's childhood was spent close to the New Forest which is not as the name suggests, a body of trees. It is a space where trees coexist with human activity, and where history is not memory but tangible objects, and smells, and light infilt read more
Sex on the move – a blunt approach.
Gallicissa...a birder in an endemic hotspot | July 11th 2008 by Amila Salgado
As in most birds, males in dragonflies appear more colourful and are dressed to impress. Conversely, the ladies are ‘differently-coloured’ – which is my preferred politically-correct way of describing their looks. Take for example the Scarlet B read more
"Anwhere That Appears Dark and Safe": Bat in a B-Cup
Walking the Berkshires | July 10th 2008
Ah, the perils of airing your dirty laundry: "A teenager was stunned to find that a baby bat had been curled up inside her bra for five hours - as she was wearing it... '...When I was driving to work... read more
Kids go bananas at Duthie Park
Our Gym | July 7th 2008 by 1stAngel
Free bananas are up for grabs every morning this week to the first 50 kids attending the University of Aberdeen Natural History Centre’s summer project Planet Plant - free fun packed sessions being held at the David Welch Winter Gardens at Duth read more
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