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This 21st Century is Quite Fantastic And this is my wife, Emma Darwin, for those of you who have not seen her beautiful countenance. I hope you will come to know her better through my blog. This painting of her was done by our friend George Richmond in 1840, the year after we were married. Emma was then 32 years old and I was 31. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449767202708-4U1HPHI8P685AP7Z72BF/andes+mountains Darwin's Blog - Welcome to My First "Blog." I'm Writing It While Traveling 500 MPH Inside a Metal Bird. This 21st Century is Quite Fantastic This is my view of the Andes. We shall soon land in Tierra del Fuego, which I have not set foot upon in 130 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449776150739-JSF4V6YN4V5TYGNCT5A7/Charles+Darwin+travels Darwin's Blog - Welcome to My First "Blog." I'm Writing It While Traveling 500 MPH Inside a Metal Bird. This 21st Century is Quite Fantastic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449770037509-UB7RDPOONV0ZVAFKYT3L/image-asset.jpeg Darwin's Blog - Welcome to My First "Blog." I'm Writing It While Traveling 500 MPH Inside a Metal Bird. This 21st Century is Quite Fantastic Here is the HMS Beagle at Tierra del Fuego, as painted by our ship's draughtsman, Conrad Martens, who became my lifelong friend. Notice the Fuegians waving to us. Do you think they shall still be there when I arrive? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449772318090-8ZAVKM41Q004XIV425WD/image-asset.jpeg Darwin's Blog - Welcome to My First "Blog." I'm Writing It While Traveling 500 MPH Inside a Metal Bird. This 21st Century is Quite Fantastic This is the world's highest-flying bird, the Ruppell's griffon vulture, which lives in Africa. 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Apparently they are more like us than we sometimes remember. The three local families are known to have skirmishes and battles from time to time." https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/thinking-small-to-help-wildlife monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1483036234890-ALEV563TKAQ2OOX8LDVW/toadlet Blog - Think Small: What Would You Do to Help Toads, Frogs and Salamanders? Laurie Kelley Stewart shared with us her photo from Pennsylvania and wrote: "Each creature from the smallest insect to the largest mammal is an intricate part of our ecosytem." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1483036790689-8IOCRGXPV32FT7FQESF4/toadmilliontoadmarchatourhouseManuelCarolynPadronFL.jpg Blog - Think Small: What Would You Do to Help Toads, Frogs and Salamanders? - Million Toad March Manuel and Carolyn Padron sent us these two shots of what they call the "Million Toad March" that takes place at their home in Florida. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1483036811683-57XJ6EY94I401OQV0XYD/toadmilliontoadmarchManuelCarolynPadronFL1.jpg Blog - Think Small: What Would You Do to Help Toads, Frogs and Salamanders? They make sure the little toads cross safely. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1483115247618-D9C7TQLVZKT1V6W5EAOB/toadlet Blog - Think Small: What Would You Do to Help Toads, Frogs and Salamanders? Photo shared by Beate Kirk, who wrote: "A tiny toad from southwest Missouri. [I was] camping by a creek in the summer. Get lulled to sleep by all the frog sounds." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1483042561517-FQ0FBRBTGIP93AR6L5QT/newt Blog - Think Small: What Would You Do to Help Toads, Frogs and Salamanders? Photo shared by Stacy Chamness, who wrote: "South Park Drive in Tilden Park (Berkeley, California) is closed from October to March for California newt migration." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1483043175403-J4Y8ESST2AFBOIEGPKGH/turtle+crossing+sign Blog - Think Small: What Would You Do to Help Toads, Frogs and Salamanders? A turtle-crossing sign like the one Barb Duhlman Deibel mentioned. This one is in British Columbia and was photographed by Christian Engelstoft. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1483044594218-0UYTMPUXP2Y0MNAEBUA3/frogletDawnCoxPA.jpg Blog - Think Small: What Would You Do to Help Toads, Frogs and Salamanders? - Dawn Cox Pennsylvania https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1483044680776-8CKI9YH2W6ORU9V5KOR1/frogtinywecalltheserainfrogsdownhereinLACassieHoltLA.jpg Blog - Think Small: What Would You Do to Help Toads, Frogs and Salamanders? - Cassie Holt Louisiana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1483044723248-923SC92EWZVCKVGSGSDF/frogtoadonalittlepuddlebygardenhoseAgustinVelozTX1.jpg Blog - Think Small: What Would You Do to Help Toads, Frogs and Salamanders? - Agustin Veloz Texas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1483044760423-GL31GHTYLQ41RDXDHMXN/frogtreeAgustinVelozTX.jpg Blog - Think Small: What Would You Do to Help Toads, Frogs and Salamanders? - Agustin Veloz Texas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1483044802028-8PLL58C4PI3L8VRUGDG5/frogtreeCharisseKelosky.jpg Blog - Think Small: What Would You Do to Help Toads, Frogs and Salamanders? - Charisse Kelosky https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1483044830185-6C66NKT3RB99Y97HYLE8/frogtreegaragedoorPatsyGlotfeltyWV.jpg Blog - Think Small: What Would You Do to Help Toads, Frogs and Salamanders? - Patsy Glotfelty West Virginia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1483044865694-GR1VTWH8N31JVLCLEIK3/frogtreeLisaSpellmanThomasNY.jpg Blog - Think Small: What Would You Do to Help Toads, Frogs and Salamanders? - Lisa Spellman New York https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1483044904420-2A1FPTV2HG0W99G8I6DO/frogtreemaybeJillianCummingsPreston.jpg Blog - Think Small: What Would You Do to Help Toads, Frogs and Salamanders? - Jillian Cummings Preston https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1483044935577-3JI69MY5B3KK8RO32VYN/frogtreeSarahMeyer-PattersonFL.jpg Blog - Think Small: What Would You Do to Help Toads, Frogs and Salamanders? - Sarah Meyer-Patterson Florida https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1483044992252-8NNSHHT83UNUGL1EKJ5L/toadinmymailboxMelissaRauhAcostaVA.jpg Blog - Think Small: What Would You Do to Help Toads, Frogs and Salamanders? - Melissa Rauh Acosta Virginia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1483045227488-DXUJJI3MHL9IBSOGU7ZY/toadletDawnCoxPA2.jpg Blog - Think Small: What Would You Do to Help Toads, Frogs and Salamanders? - Dawn Cox Pennsylvania https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1483045269051-53J8VWLBF05HXDKRV8CW/toadletfrogletSesiWarnockMillerVA.jpg Blog - Think Small: What Would You Do to Help Toads, Frogs and Salamanders? - Sesi Warnock Miller Virginia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1483045331171-P1EJYFYW67VV94WMZSAN/toadletManuelCarolynPadronFL4.jpg Blog - Think Small: What Would You Do to Help Toads, Frogs and Salamanders? - Manuel and Carolyn Padron Florida https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1483045368578-B1M5NS62DDNR638BJ695/toadletmarissasilvaUT1.jpg Blog - Think Small: What Would You Do to Help Toads, Frogs and Salamanders? - Marissa Silva Utah https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1483045976874-H9ML79HYM9REGM93D64J/toadletsonoftoadloverGretaRossME.jpg Blog - Think Small: What Would You Do to Help Toads, Frogs and Salamanders? - Greta Ross Maine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1483046055143-JP41UZZY6IKS14THESB5/newtroughskinnedLisaPhillipsOlympicNPWA.jpg Blog - Think Small: What Would You Do to Help Toads, Frogs and Salamanders? - Lisa Phillips Olympic National Park, Washington https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/how-the-historic-supermoon-looked-from-all-50-states monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/maine-on-mars-and-a-visit-to-nasas-jet-propulsion-lab monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1478185667580-VLXIZZE471D3T5ZKVEO4/katiestackmorgancraigneff Blog - Maine on Mars! And a Visit to NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab Katie used a Mars globe at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to show me areas the rover was and was not exploring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1478202024531-1FTSQIPEBYX5IJMH53IH/MarsNASA.jpeg Blog - Maine on Mars! And a Visit to NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab - Mars images Courtesy NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1478202040046-LNRC90PMPI06NAD6PJ7M/MarsNASA1.jpeg Blog - Maine on Mars! And a Visit to NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1478202053129-KIMYHGAPRD1HM6SHQ1I9/MarsNASA.jpg Blog - Maine on Mars! And a Visit to NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab - Mars Rock Formation Katie Stack Morgan has a background in geology that is crucial to her work on the Mars project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1478202453956-XXVI8107L7D7SJK9XVH7/MarsCuriosityNASA.jpeg Blog - Maine on Mars! And a Visit to NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab - Curiosity Rover https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1478202462480-1DYH0AM9J1LYUBW436N6/MarsNASA4.jpeg Blog - Maine on Mars! And a Visit to NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1478202470544-LLEPSSCUCMRCUUVUYOJK/MarsNASA5.jpeg Blog - Maine on Mars! And a Visit to NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1478185217968-C21AJB0P25W05IG31TP6/califjplgate.jpg Blog - Maine on Mars! And a Visit to NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab - Jet Propulsion Lab Gate Everyone has to sign in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1478187429155-RCSYS7UDN6JGOBOUXTID/IMG_8025.jpg Blog - Maine on Mars! And a Visit to NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab - JPL Campus Katie Stack Morgan showed Craig Neff and Pamelia Markwood of The Naturalist's Notebook the complex of buildings and test grounds that make up the lab. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1478187133183-EVDCKITZUBDO80741ASU/IMG_7926.JPG Blog - Maine on Mars! And a Visit to NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab - Visitors Center Katie Stack Morgan showing Pamelia Markwood of The Naturalist's Notebook around at the start of our tour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1478185265088-PN9VZD0T2I0F2M0312MS/califkatiecraig.jpg Blog - Maine on Mars! 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Amazing Acorn Woodpeckers: Packing 50,000 Nuts Into a Single Tree Here's the photo I took of the taxidermied acorn woodpecker at the Point Reyes visitors' center. 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One of our Facebook followers wrote in to say that it looked like a squirrel's dream candy bar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1462980217035-8F5P68N6JHKYFKX20DGA/acorn+woodpecker+tree Blog - Amazing Acorn Woodpeckers: Packing 50,000 Nuts Into a Single Tree Peter Heymans of Crockett, Calif., later shared with us his shot of another tree larded with acorns by these remarkable woodpeckers. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/little-blue-heron-on-the-north-carolina-coast monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1461509218510-81IMT51GEGWZNILIL5BN/little+blue+heron Blog - Little Blue Heron on the North Carolina Coast Photo by Craig Neff https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1461509251470-6E6GMCZFTSRQP45E7F8T/littleblueheron Blog - Little Blue Heron on the North Carolina Coast photo by Craig Neff https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1461509291768-CLDNQ6EJYWHP6EDZ3T5R/littleblueheron Blog - Little Blue Heron on the North Carolina Coast photo by Janneke Koning Case https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/q-and-a-with-bernd-heinrich-about-his-new-book-one-wild-bird-at-a-time monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1460509180459-62P9WD5OK7IFKDWINCWG/One+Wild+Bird+at+a+Time Blog - Q-and-A With Bernd Heinrich About "One Wild Bird at a Time" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1460509107432-D1HEUWQ9JPQQG6B6VWZQ/Bernd+Heinrich+One+Wild+Bird+at+a+Time Blog - Q-and-A With Bernd Heinrich About "One Wild Bird at a Time" Bernd at his cabin in western Maine right after he received his hot-off-the-presses first copy of the book. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/migrating-bird-fallout-on-machias-seal-island monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1460286921517-VJSXUCBDJXDPU788OZIZ/Machias+Seal+Island+birds+Ralph+Eldridge Blog - Migrating Songbird Fallout On Machias Seal Island (Guest Post By Lighthouse Keeper Ralph Eldridge) Migrating songbirds (including what appear to be yellow, Blackburnian, black-and-white and common-yellowthroat warblers, American redstarts and ovenbirds, among others) on the lighthouse at Machias Seal Island. 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(photo by Ralph Eldridge) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1460291195528-GSQYL7MI2G6N6586DXL2/Machias+Seal+Island Blog - Migrating Songbird Fallout On Machias Seal Island (Guest Post By Lighthouse Keeper Ralph Eldridge) Machias Seal Island https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1460297285688-FQKBOVYQK88FQYUFOFG5/bird+fallout+Ralph+Eldridge Blog - Migrating Songbird Fallout On Machias Seal Island (Guest Post By Lighthouse Keeper Ralph Eldridge) During a fallout, Ralph says, "you don't grab your camera and charge outside. That's how you kill birds. You avoid contact as much as possible. And that's why I don't have decent photos of any fallout." His images of the May 2011 fallout are nevertheless stunning. (photo by Ralph Eldridge) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1460297336605-VGTM86AEU2XJR0KGZUKL/migrating+birds+Machias+Seal+Island Blog - Migrating Songbird Fallout On Machias Seal Island (Guest Post By Lighthouse Keeper Ralph Eldridge) Another amazing mix of migrating birds on the Machias Seal Island lighthouse. (photo by Ralph Eldridge) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1460297407674-QGZTJDNFSBKJ57N69BX2/bird+fallout+Ralph+Eldridge Blog - Migrating Songbird Fallout On Machias Seal Island (Guest Post By Lighthouse Keeper Ralph Eldridge) Again, the May 2011 bird fallout on Machias Seal Island. (photo by Ralph Eldridge) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1460297488481-V7XGTG8V8L4E6LMTVL2F/bird+fallout+Ralph+Eldridge Blog - Migrating Songbird Fallout On Machias Seal Island (Guest Post By Lighthouse Keeper Ralph Eldridge) Wow—this looks like an image a graphic artist would create for a bird guidebook to show a comparison among different species. (photo by Ralph Eldridge) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1460297636646-RUD6ZDJF32JHZL966I9U/bird+fallout+Ralph+Eldridge Blog - Migrating Songbird Fallout On Machias Seal Island (Guest Post By Lighthouse Keeper Ralph Eldridge) How many of these can you identify? (photo by Ralph Eldridge) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1460297702613-SVZP81N0AHMF963DLGV1/bird+fallout+Ralph+Eldridge Blog - Migrating Songbird Fallout On Machias Seal Island (Guest Post By Lighthouse Keeper Ralph Eldridge) You can see why Ralph is careful during a fallout not to disturb the resting birds, which cover nearly every available surface. (photo by Ralph Eldridge) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1460297094665-U2OKYVM4HA1C5ABKCM75/migrating+warblers+Ralph+Eldridge Blog - Migrating Songbird Fallout On Machias Seal Island (Guest Post By Lighthouse Keeper Ralph Eldridge) Ralph says that on some nights large groups of just one or two migrating species will land at the Machias Seal Island lighthouse, but this fallout flock was very much a potpourri. (photo by Ralph Eldridge) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1460297847513-2K4CDU2PPSCO79I6F7SY/bird+fallout+Ralph+Eldridge Blog - Migrating Songbird Fallout On Machias Seal Island (Guest Post By Lighthouse Keeper Ralph Eldridge) I love the black mask on that male common-yellowthroat warbler on the far left. (photo by Ralph Eldridge) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1460297965471-O4AMJMMJX4RSHH72HHLD/bird+fallout+Ralph+Eldridge Blog - Migrating Songbird Fallout On Machias Seal Island (Guest Post By Lighthouse Keeper Ralph Eldridge) With its distinctive black cap, the yellow bird on the lighthouse windowsill appears to be a Wilson's warbler. 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I puzzled over this creature for a long time. The museum had no label on the specimen, so I didn't know what it was, or if that apparent horn was real. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1459438565820-7NK2D9NGCCOOPKNHNUUZ/white+bellbird Blog - April Fools' Day and the Stories Behind Eight Animal Hoaxes This is a living white male bellbird. Note the floppy wattle, which would seem to be a major inconvenience when not courting a female. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1459463593017-7TOYWCZSPJZM60Q5RMI0/three-wattled+bellbird Blog - April Fools' Day and the Stories Behind Eight Animal Hoaxes Here's the three-wattled bellbird—one of the world's 10 sexiest birds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1459438521825-W5LH6WYHJM5WTSDW1CZC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - April Fools' Day and the Stories Behind Eight Animal Hoaxes The world's largest spider? 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Conservation groups even put those pipes (and other possible burrow replacements) out to help the owls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1459077524731-7LPA42KGLHD7OYK4RLUC/burrowing+owl+painting Blog - Burrowing-Owl Mural in Arizona Teresa included a chick in this portion of the mural. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1459077631118-INKDOAPV6CEVY440W61C/burrowing+owl+mural Blog - Burrowing-Owl Mural in Arizona Teresa the artist jokingly calls this owl "the critic." https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/burrowing-owls-in-florida monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1458849692448-BTN5U8YGNZHEKWMF49TL/burrowingowlsfrankgarcia Blog - Burrowing Owls in Florida Photo by Frank Garcia https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/v7zmvwu9fe89u2rztggt1qrv76x8in monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1458727972621-IZ1UZBJZBA2KJM9THK2U/bluebirdgaryeaglerenonevada Blog - 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(photo by Ruediger Loechner) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1457821334258-48MYX2K3DIM0G7CI0N7F/bigwavepetrelruedigerloechner Blog - 50-Foot Waves, the South Shetland Islands and Antarctica That's a cape petrel, our most common traveling companion as we neared Antarctica. (photo by Ruediger Loechner) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1456324340467-KE1P3YKV2H7OPL4DJWHJ/icebergantarctic Blog - 50-Foot Waves, the South Shetland Islands and Antarctica From every angle the towers of blue ice looked different. 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(photo by Ruediger Loechner) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1457820368686-E2DMI5MI2UIN6RH5CKNU/whalefluketruedigerloechner Blog - 50-Foot Waves, the South Shetland Islands and Antarctica Once back on board the Sergey Vavliov, we caught sight of another in a succession of whales that we had seen. I believe this one was a humpback. (photo by Ruediger Loechner) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1457820566006-8PVN9Q2EP380V2B22FBY/humpbackwhaleruedigerloechner Blog - 50-Foot Waves, the South Shetland Islands and Antarctica photo by Ruediger Loechner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1457822169949-H13J2773WDR0BLA3UIGS/pameliamarkwoodantarctica Blog - 50-Foot Waves, the South Shetland Islands and Antarctica Pamelia was ready to go as we waited to board Zodiacs for the ride ashore at Mikkelsen Harbor. She had been hoping for decades for a chance to set foot on Antarctica. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1457822247781-UMVMQB86NGB26C47PIL4/zodiacantarctica Blog - 50-Foot Waves, the South Shetland Islands and Antarctica The ride to Mikkelsen aboard Nate's Zodiac was bitterly cold, choppy...and spectacular. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1457822117382-IW2OMM88AGP3VIZ28TM1/weddellsealmikkelsenharbor Blog - 50-Foot Waves, the South Shetland Islands and Antarctica A lone Weddell Seal served as our Antarctic welcoming party. Weddells (named for British sealing captain James Weddell, who first saw them in the 1820s in the Antarctic waters now known as the Weddell Sea) have the most southerly distribution of any mammal. They're found only around Antarctica, and their range extends much farther south than the tip of the Antarctic peninsula, which we had reached. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1457822771226-6GLIDVWWGAQ2OONTF9ML/mikkelsenantarctica Blog - 50-Foot Waves, the South Shetland Islands and Antarctica I've mentioned how quickly and dramatically the weather can change in the Antarctic. Here at Mikkelsen it never stopped changing, from blowing snow to wild clouds to sun and back. The beauty was overwhelming. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1457832561321-KLFWUDCDIE9AXM6Q1CBB/mikkelsenantarctica Blog - 50-Foot Waves, the South Shetland Islands and Antarctica The rolling terrain at Mikkelsen is home to breeding and nesting gentoo penguins, which were clustered in several spots. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1457832447599-5NYBRKXNR2E4Z7EP9AC4/mikkelsenantarcticagentoopenguins Blog - 50-Foot Waves, the South Shetland Islands and Antarctica As I've written previously, the 30-inch-tall gentoos are the third-biggest species of penguin after emperors and kings. They're long-tailed penguins closely related two other species that we would unexpectedly see at Mikkelsen in the hours ahead—chinstraps and Adelies; in the course of evolution their genus broke off from those of other penguins 38 million years ago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1457832499679-P5WWWV4CP1NA27KE34E1/gentoopenguinsmating Blog - 50-Foot Waves, the South Shetland Islands and Antarctica As mentioned, the gentoos were mating. Gentoos lay two eggs, and males and females take turn (one per day) roosting on them for 34 to 36 days. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1457832620268-WSG9A5AT7ORLUHUUZFWQ/gentoopenguinsmikkelsonantarctica Blog - 50-Foot Waves, the South Shetland Islands and Antarctica Gentoos are quite vocal... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1457832666884-G60ZX0XJ1HCU4LU1EF78/gentoopenguinsantarcticamikkelsen Blog - 50-Foot Waves, the South Shetland Islands and Antarctica ...and feisty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1457956444473-ZUIAPJ2ZYJWF24DA9X6S/gentoopenguin Blog - 50-Foot Waves, the South Shetland Islands and Antarctica https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1457832720972-IGMMJS6N8ZYW00AMPZQT/gentoopenguinegg Blog - 50-Foot Waves, the South Shetland Islands and Antarctica Some of the gentoos already had laid eggs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1457832754835-5AN7Q566YXJOKK027W6F/gentoopenguinegg Blog - 50-Foot Waves, the South Shetland Islands and Antarctica I saw only one, not two, in this nest. which may have been a sign that... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1457834269422-FQJ4D23XI5E6JDVENUNQ/skuapenguineggruedigerloechner Blog - 50-Foot Waves, the South Shetland Islands and Antarctica ...a predatory skua might have stolen one. (photo by Ruedigger Loechner) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1457832826033-84ZVTJ0OP6UOMAQ1MKUM/gentoopenguins Blog - 50-Foot Waves, the South Shetland Islands and Antarctica Pamelia later painted an ink study of this battle royal. Later I'll show you the time-lapse video she created while painting it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1457833311999-NUKR0CQQ5GA4OF0E7IDF/mikkelsenhutantarctica Blog - 50-Foot Waves, the South Shetland Islands and Antarctica This was an emergency hut—the first we'd seen on our trip through thousands of almost completely human-free miles. That is an Argentinian flag painted on the side, a reflection of the closest neighbor on the South American continent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1457833396481-JMAZHE20QG8490X2XE9I/sheathbillantarctica Blog - 50-Foot Waves, the South Shetland Islands and Antarctica These are snowy sheathbills, scavengers that we had seen near several earlier penguin and seal breeding grounds. They'll eat anything from afterbirths to feces, which perhaps explains why they seem to spend so much time cleaning and grooming themselves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1457833459171-3PRI1ZS4WAK2TT7VWN63/sheathbillantarctica Blog - 50-Foot Waves, the South Shetland Islands and Antarctica I love this shot Pamelia took of a swooping sheathbill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1457834408103-67H3WFD6NCZSXYWY6VWT/snowysheathbill Blog - 50-Foot Waves, the South Shetland Islands and Antarctica Many of the sheathbills held one leg up to retain warmth in the frigid conditions. (photo by Ruediger Loechner) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1457834534978-MHAPXTR98TG1XL4STH6S/snowy+sheathbill Blog - 50-Foot Waves, the South Shetland Islands and Antarctica Note the stunning bill and sheath. (photo by Ruediger Loechner) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1457832882879-0P7V82NHVOB0ARCC2UA5/chinstrappenguin Blog - 50-Foot Waves, the South Shetland Islands and Antarctica Surprise! Suddenly a lone chinstrap penguin was wandering around. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1457832993484-MQEU9SC7FRM1TO7HRXQ5/chinstrappenguinmikkelsen Blog - 50-Foot Waves, the South Shetland Islands and Antarctica Chinstraps are slightly smaller than gentoos and loaded with personalty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1457833030539-2E0GX9EA7V3XK1SQHOWT/chinstrappenguin Blog - 50-Foot Waves, the South Shetland Islands and Antarctica They have amazing-looking eyes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1457833063997-H7OPMB8T6UWMR5HFYS38/chinstrapgentoopenguins Blog - 50-Foot Waves, the South Shetland Islands and Antarctica The chinstrap and a gentoo passed each other without incident—or even acknowledgement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1457833103660-NBF52XI4AY83KHOBMDH6/adeliepenguin Blog - 50-Foot Waves, the South Shetland Islands and Antarctica And who's this? An Adelie penguin popped up next—also a loner. Adelies were first seen in 1840 by French Antarctic explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville, whose wife was named Adelie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1457833131350-VCS102LQZJM9H7PMAOVE/adeliepenguin Blog - 50-Foot Waves, the South Shetland Islands and Antarctica Adelies stand between 18 and 28 inches tall and have particularly long tails. Their numbers have been declining on the Antarctic peninsula (perhaps because of warming conditions and melting ice), but not (yet, anyway) in Antarctica as a whole. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1457833210476-CIJRSDIR88Y6D4LZ1QVD/adeliepenguin Blog - 50-Foot Waves, the South Shetland Islands and Antarctica You may have seen the horrific news story in February 2016 that 150,000 Adelies on Cape Denison in Antarctica had starved as a result of a giant iceberg that had floated in and blocked their access to the sea. The penguins had to make a 75-mile round trip on land to get food. The consequences of melting ice in the Antarctic could be dire for the planet as a whole, but sometimes they are localized, sudden and unforeseeable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1457833642870-ENXMU4POK24K86SG8DY1/blueeyedshag Blog - 50-Foot Waves, the South Shetland Islands and Antarctica One of our new favorite birds became the blue-eyed shag, or cormorant. Pamelia took this amazing shot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1457834621869-4TYH701W9X5SYJF6UCLS/blueeyedshagsruediggerloechner Blog - 50-Foot Waves, the South Shetland Islands and Antarctica Our friend Ruediger matched that by capturing two of the blue-eyed shags in sync. Great shot. (photo by Ruediger Loechner) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1457833752558-UJ5M6O1LEFS8TX3CAN4L/mikkelsenantarctica Blog - 50-Foot Waves, the South Shetland Islands and Antarctica As the morning began to wind down, we could see the Sergey Vavilov in the distance waiting for us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1457833880195-AUI3RT1ZAWHUKCED6EYG/mikkelsongentoopenguins Blog - 50-Foot Waves, the South Shetland Islands and Antarctica We hiked back past the gentoo encampments. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1457833594700-RXY59AK7KUMGXO123AMQ/charlesdarwinantarctica Blog - 50-Foot Waves, the South Shetland Islands and Antarctica As always, Charles Darwin was traveling with us and was exuberant about the naturalist discoveries he was making. He had become a regular on the ship and had even begun writing his own blog. Charles continues to explore the 21st century, and relive his life and career, as part of The Naturalist's Notebook team. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1457834193826-3YPWWOTUMW2FHW9E2IVU/craigneffantarctica Blog - 50-Foot Waves, the South Shetland Islands and Antarctica Pamelia took a shot of me with some of my gentoo penguin buddies. Neither of us could fully absorb the fact that we were standing in Antarctica, the last wild continent left on Earth.   https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/guest-post-the-world-of-endangered-spirit-bears monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1457013704426-GLRM3NTIS7T7X29ZHT02/spiritbearsjennyvarley Blog - Naturalist's Notebook Guest Post: Photographing the Endangered Spirit Bear Because both parents must carry the gene mutation responsible for producing a white bear, white spirit bears can give birth to black cubs, which remain black all of their lives. (photo by Jenny Varley) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1457014377842-HOZFIQTFQ9NC7SXBFHWL/spiritbearsjennyvarley1 Blog - Naturalist's Notebook Guest Post: Photographing the Endangered Spirit Bear Studies have found that the white bears are more successful than black bears at hunting salmon during the day, when—from a fish-eye view—their coloration makes them less visible against the sky. (photo by Jenny Varley) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1457014161995-5M3MANYLD7EUM5SBA04G/greatbearrainforest Blog - Naturalist's Notebook Guest Post: Photographing the Endangered Spirit Bear The Great Bear Rainforest has been described as one of the world's largest remaining tracts of unspoiled temperate rainforest. In February 2016, after a decade of negotiations, the British Columbia government announced a deal to protect 85% of the rainforest from commercial logging. On March 1, 2016, as part of the compromise, the provincial government assured timber companies that for the next 10 years they would be allowed to harvest 2.5 million cubic meters of wood each year (down from 4 million a decade ago) under "strict, ecosytem-based management rules." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1457019089944-A14GS98QNSRERBUCY2B7/spiritbearsjennyvarley Blog - Naturalist's Notebook Guest Post: Photographing the Endangered Spirit Bear Kermode bears have been known to catch and feast on as many as 80 salmon in one session. Five species of Pacific salmon spawn in the streams of the Great Bear Rainforest. (photo by Jenny Varley) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1457017556120-Q7WNRB8N18C6VOEN23FI/spiritbearsjennyvarley Blog - Naturalist's Notebook Guest Post: Photographing the Endangered Spirit Bear A male spirit bear can stand almost six feet tall and weigh 500 pounds; females, such as this one, are notably smaller and usually top out at about 300 pounds. (photo by Jenny Varley) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1457019157965-WYE6RXWV6XSE5MMQTLPE/spiritbearjennyvarley Blog - Naturalist's Notebook Guest Post: Photographing the Endangered Spirit Bear Many thanks to Jenny for bringing us face-to-face with these rare and remarkable bears! (photo by Jenny Varley) https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/bernd-heinrich-and-the-case-of-the-dead-woodpecker monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/a-one-day-antarctic-wildlife-extravaganza-salisbury-cove-prion-island-elsehul monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454336095999-9JE95LV9MNSCCPVHRA8T/kingpenguinssalisburyplain Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure We arrived at Salisbury Plain on South Georgia Island in time to watch the Sun rise over a vast expanse of king penguins and elephant and fur seals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454339824296-5832MR0A2SK4BYS9KAZV/kingpenguinssalisburyplain1 Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure The king penguins and their brown, fluffy chicks filled the plain around us in every direction on South Georgia Island's largest coastal plain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454340072346-1JWL5BI1UUS139JMWGT9/kingpenguindssalisburyplain2 Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure Salisbury Plain is home to South Georgia's greatest king penguin colony. See our previous posts, below, for more on these regal, remarkable animals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454341557306-6HTX8AF0QXH7IMMG5W1J/kingpenguinssalisburyplain4 Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure Waves of king penguins came ashore and joined the masses on the plain. The ocean is home to these penguins for most of their lives, during the months when they're not breeding or molting (as many of them were at this time). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454340263771-AAAV0Z2GCEFX5EE5EGK1/fursealsalisburyplain Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure Fur seals popped up between the clumps of tussock grass. I had learned the hard way about the aggressiveness of these seals (see our post "Don't Mess With a Fur Seal") and would hear several weeks later about a bloody encounter: A passenger on another Antarctic voyage soon after ours suffered a severed artery when bitten here at Salisbury Plain by a fur seal. The injury required the ship to rendezvous with a British Navy vessel at sea and transfer the man for emergency surgery in the Falkland Islands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454340833680-D5ZH6L7SL1OAVR5GB4HO/southerngiantpetrel Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure Southern giant petrels scouted the plain for prey, specifically penguin chicks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454340971741-UNC61I03XWXNBS9RVW6U/southerngiantpetreleye Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure The eyes and bill of the Southern giant petrel are equally striking. Note the tube on the bill, part of a system that seabirds have evolved over millions of years for excreting salt from the sea water that they drink. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454341136381-TEEPB0RBYNJMDSOW5TBG/penguinpameliamarkwood Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure Pamelia spent one-on-one time with certain king penguins for ink studies that she would paint later. We'll soon share more of those studies and her time-lapse videos of herself painting them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454341257601-S3RTDD7RY65JX8SNQA2Y/salisburyplainkingpenguins Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure Once again we felt we were standing in one of the most breathtaking places on Earth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454690741093-CHKN6GSXYH4X3HHRW7OJ/charlesdarwintravels Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure As many of you know, we've brought the young Charles Darwin back to life at The Naturalist's Notebook and he was with us, enjoying his first voyage to the Antarctic. He's been writing his own blog about his trip. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454341381551-B6MDJCGND3YDPTUTGV2M/salisburyplain2 Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure The weather took a dramatic shift as we prepared to board the Zodiacs and return to the ship for a brief rest before heading to our next landing site, Prion Island. It was still just 7 a.m. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454619128783-QJ5NDGTYWA3Q1B1LFLNS/prionislandzodiac Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure Soon we were on the rough seas in a Zodiac again, this time bound for Prion Island, home to wandering albatrosses on the nest and—at long last—rare South Georgia pipits for Pamelia and me to see. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454619334307-HV4LI2Y5Y0ALQJR65DS5/prionislandelephantseal Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure A male Southern elephant seal stood sentry along the narrowing channel we had to negotiate to reach Prion Island. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454619434035-08HPQQMUMBU43A75KFM7/leopardsealprionisland Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure We caught our first good glimpse of a leopard seal—a species that can grow to more than 11 feet long and is second only to killer whales among Antarctic predators. He was resting and presumably waiting for a chance to devour one of the gentoo penguins that were nesting and swimming nearby. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454693309241-2ZONQWJ05E896X7DNU6H/prionisland Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure We ascended an icy wooden observation walkway (the only such visitor trail we would encounter on our three-week Antarctic voyage) to get a look at the wandering albatrosses nesting in the tussock grass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454619555335-WSDHRM64473ASBLLOH7P/wanderingalbatrossonnest Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure Wandering albatrosses are extraordinary birds. They have the largest wingspan of any avian species (up to 11-and-a-half feet) and can live for 50 years if not done in by getting snagged on baited longline fishing hooks, which kill about 100,000 albatrosses of all kinds each year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454619598596-RFIUY4QF14XO8EW6IFTK/wanderingalbatrossprionisland Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure The wandering albatrosses that we saw on the nests were seven-month-old juveniles. Our ship ornithologist, Simon Boyes, affectionately called this one Albert. Young Albert had been waiting for days for his parents—amazing long-distance flyers, as all albatrosses are—to return from a 3,100-mile flight to the waters off Brazil to gather food that they would regurgitate to feed him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454619630934-5APV2ETWGYD1UBBISRW9/wanderingalbatrossyoung Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure Wandering albatrosses flying along with a ship have always been thought of by sailors as a good omen—a mythology made famous by Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1798 poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," in which the mariner shoots an albatross that has just led his ship to safety from an Antarctic ice jam. The mariner and his ship suffer the consequences. We don't believe in omens, but seeing Albert certainly felt like a lifetime moment of good fortune. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454619767525-4TDVHFDTUVKM6FW6ZLES/southgeorgiapipit Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure Nearly as thrilling as standing a few yards from a wandering albatross was finding and photographing a South Georgia pipit, a species that had been endangered by the invasive brown rats in South Georgia. (See our previous Antarctic post for more on the extreme efforts underway to eradicate the rats.) These pipits hover in the air before diving into the tussock grass to catch insects. I was able to watch this one wandering and hunting in the grass for several minutes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454688777195-ZLUQAQE9D0Q70EQX2MMB/elsehulpenguinnesting Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure After a few hours back on board the Akademik Sergey Vavilov, we embarked on our final expedition of the day, to Elsehul, home to breeding gentoo penguins, fur seals, gray-headed albatrosses and light-mantled albatrosses. And also a macaroni penguin colony—that grayish patch within the green on the mountainside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454689809475-M6X4DW3TQD7FRX1TQOKF/macaronipenguinsnesting Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure Here's a (blurry) closeup of the colony. Macaroni penguins are closely related to rockhopper penguins and share the ability to climb up steep rocky hills to reach seemingly inaccessible spots like this. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454623108246-MWGW3HPHID66274MHE45/macaronipenguins Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure Some of the macaroni penguins were swimming. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454688709448-U5MCPE2F810M2BN6U17B/elsehulpameliamarkwood Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure Pamelia and I were bundled up again the strong winds and pelting snow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454688865450-RLUQOU5FZA1TACHRJMCO/fursealselsehul Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure Fur seals were watching us. Often visitors are not allowed to go ashore at at Elsehul because the breeding male fur seals are too aggressive (or because the waves and weather make landings impossible). Throughout our time at Elsehul, we had to be extremely careful not to intrude on the fur seals' space—and there were a lot of them around, often blending in with the rocks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454688926267-0A0DRTGJLDS1LH6AI61Z/elsehulrockyhike Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure We headed off on a rocky climb. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454689043132-W6TUNTVIH5ZK3SV59VDO/elsehulsealbones Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure Seal (and skua and petrel and penguin?) bones littered the ground—so many of them that one of the expedition members, noted wildlife filmmaker Peter Bassett, later put together a comical mock horror film in which the nesting gentoo penguins were bloodthirsty killers responsible for turning Elsehul into a boneyard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454688983242-XNEE5BARZP9N5AYI8YDD/elsehulhiking Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure We were on our way through muck and tussock grass to see penguins and albatrosses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454689087079-MYWPORIHKJA21NF9Z9PL/gentoopenguinelsehul Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure We soon encountered more gentoo penguins stomping around with their webbed, peach-colored feet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454689359426-LRPUURRX2WY0V9EVOS5D/gentoopenguinelsehul Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure Gentoos are playful, long-tailed penguins and, at 30 inches, the third-tallest of all penguin species. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454689142745-P0Q3873ZT96GCGJJJ7K6/gentoopenguinnestbones Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure Yes, this gentoo's nest was made mostly of bones. Cue the horror music! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454689197518-BEEBEZ2ADNDK2O30VW2S/gentoopenguinsnesting Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure Most of the nests were made of mud and stones. Male and female gentoos take turns on the nests (which contain two eggs) for a month, trading places every one to three days. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454689233256-HYRMQ2XQOCOKTFQSE27K/gentoopenguinnestbuilding Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure A nest builder in action. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454689303835-GUVEEV6YDTVD4246NPMC/gentoopenguinselsehul Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure Sometimes it was hard to believe that we were on one of the world's most remote and wildlife-rich islands watching these amazing animals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454689419946-C4FBGU4OQ4Q082JB6BLV/gentoopenguinfurseal Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure The penguins and fur seals shared some of the same ground, though the penguins quickly moved aside if a fur seal charged through. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454622931863-Z2KPOD3GL90XRDLA1MB2/elsehulsouthgeorgia Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure The albatrosses were nesting on the cliffside ahead of us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454689485664-M7UNTQN3J8NOOJA2JDAM/grayheadedalbatrossnesting Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure Our first look at a gray-headed albatross, a threatened species whose numbers are continuing to decline. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454689546056-UENS6RSRPTN8UC2K88MH/grayheadedalbatross Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure A nesting gray-headed albatross like this one lays one egg in a year. If the chick survives, its parents will take a year off before breeding again. In that year, these remarkable flyers might circle the globe more than once. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454689606960-7GYGM1M06OEW4ZJVLBWT/lightmantledalbatrossnesting Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure I had seen a light-mantled albatross once before on the trip (see earlier post), but not this close. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454689651806-3Q8LADJDCG60QUKFLJUW/lightmantledalbatross Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure Beautiful. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454690150452-TNWHY6S0EDIY26954A2U/fursealelsehul Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure As we started to make our way back through the nesting gentoos, the fur seals again watched us and sometimes rumbled threateningly in our direction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454690359352-5PTQ5W0SJC9S93IJSALO/gentoopenguinpreen Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure This shot gives a feel for the density of gentoo nests we saw. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454690229263-3S0DCROY0J7R6BD2G3T8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure There's a glimpse of that long tail, a distinguishing trait of not just gentoos but also two other types of penguins (chinstraps and adelies). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454689896585-SA0ROESSPD6GICJ1PTIE/macaronipenguinsswimming Blog - Come Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife Adventure On the Zodiac ride back to the ship, we again watched the swimming macaroni penguins and steered close to short to revisit their hillside colony. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/v8sb4mdb7nschvhu4r0ef0ghbny6rj monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452699029020-XW0W5FLNIJI2SIITJ6OP/southernelephantseal Blog - Antarctic Adventures (Cont.): Grytviken and Jason Harbor Weaned elephant seals (affectionally known as weaners) would be waiting for us on the beach at both Grytviken and, in the case of this one, Jason Harbor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452608393119-78V17SDUQ90IW4K0VK84/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Antarctic Adventures (Cont.): Grytviken and Jason Harbor The kettle-pond bog landscape at Jason Harbor offered endless opportunities to explore. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452695317128-BMVPVGVXV5YJNIAJ6TPK/IMG_9448.JPG Blog - Antarctic Adventures (Cont.): Grytviken and Jason Harbor We learned in the lecture that the pipit is one of South Georgia's two endemic bird species. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452712839236-CU603INLAKP9C92SKSNV/rathelicopter.jpg Blog - Antarctic Adventures (Cont.): Grytviken and Jason Harbor Because of South Georgia's tricky winds, top helicopter pilots from New Zealand came in to fly the choppers and drop the pellets on a carefully calculated grid. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452874014573-RTT4XKSNEA9YU3DR26LG/grytviken Blog - Antarctic Adventures (Cont.): Grytviken and Jason Harbor Between 1904 and 1965, the whaling complex at Grytviken killed and "processed" at least 30,000 (I've seen numbers closer to 60,000) whales, reducing them to commercial products such as oil, meat, food-additive powder and even glycerine for World War I and WWII explosives. The total slaughtered by whalers based at South Georgia's various stations totaled 175,000, according to zoologist Mark Carwardine, our trip organizer, who's a leading whale expert. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452875872618-SG2MHK2ELFJYXO15KB8T/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Antarctic Adventures (Cont.): Grytviken and Jason Harbor As soon as we landed, we saw a Southern giant petrel eating the ghoulish remains of a young seal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452885393012-2RX5WIUOBMFGQ6AQ9UJQ/grytvikenseal Blog - Antarctic Adventures (Cont.): Grytviken and Jason Harbor A few elephant seals relaxed in patches of snow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452878844435-O0X6WJNVXWPBUMSHOI1J/grytviken Blog - Antarctic Adventures (Cont.): Grytviken and Jason Harbor The graves of Ernest Shackleton and several others are fenced off but open to visitors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452879739068-5J1E1WH26WQGZCJAIIME/shackletonsgravetoast Blog - Antarctic Adventures (Cont.): Grytviken and Jason Harbor In keeping with the tradition of toasting Shackleton at his grave, a member of our crew welcomed us with a bottle of whiskey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452880053411-M86AQ5IXX591SRNWAQ3V/grytvikenshackleton Blog - Antarctic Adventures (Cont.): Grytviken and Jason Harbor We were given the option of sharing the whiskey with the late Shackleton rather than drinking it ourselves. I chose to share. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453656928147-W814II5USHNC0P3V4CB7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Antarctic Adventures (Cont.): Grytviken and Jason Harbor Our ship historian, Katie Murray, who earlier had given us a lecture on the astounding story of how Shackleton and his crew on the Endurance survived after their ship was locked in (and crushed by) Antarctic ice, added a few final words before we toasted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452881451071-BWS8ELYI35DGERO2OEYY/shackletonsgravepanorama Blog - Antarctic Adventures (Cont.): Grytviken and Jason Harbor Pamelia took a panoramic shot of some of the Vavilov explorers by the grave. Clouds were rolling in, and cold rain was about to start falling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452874980652-CFY7EKA2PV2QD6DPYK3O/southgeorgiapintailducks Blog - Antarctic Adventures (Cont.): Grytviken and Jason Harbor We saw our first group of South Georgia pintail ducks off to the side of Shackleton's grave. These pintails are small ducks which mate for life and nest in the tussock grass. Their numbers were decimated by hunting when the whalers arrived on South Georgia, but have climbed some since the whaling stations closed in the 1960s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452884028007-BOUDK5YN1XZ1PME90ECM/grytvikenwhaling Blog - Antarctic Adventures (Cont.): Grytviken and Jason Harbor These are pressure cookers that were part of the station's "blubber cookery." Read the sign if you can for a further explanation of how a living being was turned into industrial products. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452883722671-H7KBR9A2CFFV18FVP3LJ/grytviken Blog - Antarctic Adventures (Cont.): Grytviken and Jason Harbor The Grytviken station had a church, dorms, a mess hall and even an athletic field on which teams from rival whaling station played soccer matches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452883860052-7RM8T5OV0HRA1NQVX2SM/whalingshipgrytviken Blog - Antarctic Adventures (Cont.): Grytviken and Jason Harbor Less than a century ago, this hulk was a whaling vessel. Note the harpoon cannon on the bow. The harpoons had explosive tips designed to blow up inside the whale's head and kill the mammal, if the gunner's aim was good enough. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452884437007-AYB3PLU1SIPN7TDIOAJL/grytviken Blog - Antarctic Adventures (Cont.): Grytviken and Jason Harbor I took one last look around the station before heading inside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452886787407-RUIILE6010MTHTMLJCQU/southgeorgiapostoffice Blog - Antarctic Adventures (Cont.): Grytviken and Jason Harbor Grytviken has the only post office on South Georgia, so we all stopped in to send postcards or buy unique stamps. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453643774193-C9EWA2LZBCG12NVBA7NC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Antarctic Adventures (Cont.): Grytviken and Jason Harbor Pamelia checked out the albatross and other specimens in the museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453644486748-C8TNA9A5L05IW6XQFPHB/jasonharbor Blog - Antarctic Adventures (Cont.): Grytviken and Jason Harbor Welcome to Jason Harbor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453665091268-5683N89PX828O7PDG44L/jasonharborelephantseals.jpg Blog - Antarctic Adventures (Cont.): Grytviken and Jason Harbor The clumps of tussock grass were a wild backdrop for the beachful of elephant seals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453837823400-9P0QFHOGZMVK5XPS06IZ/kingpenguinjasonharbor Blog - Antarctic Adventures (Cont.): Grytviken and Jason Harbor After the hundreds of thousands of king penguins we had seen earlier on South Georgia, this lone one seemed dramatic in a different way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453838199560-9UUYXVSR3WF3J8KKJ2YO/jasonharbor1 Blog - Antarctic Adventures (Cont.): Grytviken and Jason Harbor The mossy landscape was dotted with kettle pools. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453838276437-YRW6SEID4EJ2AH9ISYHI/southgeorgiapintailducks Blog - Antarctic Adventures (Cont.): Grytviken and Jason Harbor Pairs of South Georgia pintail ducks (which mate for life) fed in the boggy grass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453838485460-Q3VR8QQS08M5MVJNGQ5J/gentoopenguinjasonharbor Blog - Antarctic Adventures (Cont.): Grytviken and Jason Harbor A gentoo penguin explored the beach... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453838570471-V3Y277PCF20951I03TRQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Antarctic Adventures (Cont.): Grytviken and Jason Harbor ...and met up with a king penguin cousin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453838708508-SQ7QPX41UZQ1UPSFYEZV/gentoopenguinjasonharbor2 Blog - Antarctic Adventures (Cont.): Grytviken and Jason Harbor Pamelia studied the gentoos as inspiration for a sumo ink study that she would soon do back on the ship as part of her time-lapse penguin series. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453838959164-C5MEST8VGQLDUH9ELAT9/jasonharbor3 Blog - Antarctic Adventures (Cont.): Grytviken and Jason Harbor Pamelia roamed back to a snowy hillside on which a cluster of penguins were hanging out. On the way, she and I saw... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453839071752-EHCX296EJXE37GU760PT/antarctictern Blog - Antarctic Adventures (Cont.): Grytviken and Jason Harbor ...stunningly beautiful, graceful Antarctic terns. They closely resemble Arctic terns but don't migrate as far. Arctic terns fly from Arctic to Antarctic and back each year, while their Antarctic cousins generally don't go farther north than the coast of South America—still no small feat. We couldn't stop watching them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453839253750-DWFAAWJ8XF0ISWWYZBBS/antarctictern Blog - Antarctic Adventures (Cont.): Grytviken and Jason Harbor The terns hovered momentarily before diving to feed by the kettle pools. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453839416281-NEX5D5PU0JYPB1O5D3C3/elephantsealjuvenile Blog - Antarctic Adventures (Cont.): Grytviken and Jason Harbor The young seals again studied us and eagerly approached us. In one case, when an expedition member lay on the ground, a young seal came over and laid on top of her as a pet dog or cat might. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/bats-at-the-mine-hill-reserve monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453562319380-LXJ9VO30X8GVV015YW1N/minehillbats Blog - Bats at the Mine Hill Reserve This mine shaft is caged in to keep people out but allow bats to come and go freely. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453562484533-GH7GRX8LDUHWRTQWIBGK/little+brown+bat Blog - Bats at the Mine Hill Reserve Little brown bats belong to a genus called Myotis, meaning "mouse-eared bat." They're sometimes known as little brown myotises. Their population has been hit hard from white-nose syndrome. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453565157441-3UGYXXM18EJEU15IKOVG/bigbrownbat Blog - Bats at the Mine Hill Reserve Big brown bats are one of the bat species that catch insects with their wing membranes and then shovel the insects into their mouths. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453566062205-503TJW3P7TQKHWKFED51/northernlongearedbat Blog - Bats at the Mine Hill Reserve Northern long-eared bats are now listed as a threatened species because of the impact of white-nose syndrome. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453566419522-WOGH61SZGKBVP0NJ50GM/pipistrellebat.jpeg Blog - Bats at the Mine Hill Reserve The pipipstrelle is a small bat that can eat as many as 3,000 insects in a night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453573356441-HGBEDHGC57Q9A59DVU3W/siderite Blog - Bats at the Mine Hill Reserve The siderite (far left) was a source of Mine Hill's iron. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453573658065-G37O3EMEO3FOM1GY1Y6G/minehill1 Blog - Bats at the Mine Hill Reserve Rocky and I checked out some of the rock formations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453574620460-Q30TSEBTETVZV38BF0XN/minehillpamelia.jpg Blog - Bats at the Mine Hill Reserve Pamelia and I enjoyed Mine Hill's longest hiking trail. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453575563189-O8WCPZCC73XDNLFWOWHC/rockythedog Blog - Bats at the Mine Hill Reserve Rocky did too. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/from-our-mailbag monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452607390652-CH9QNCDLY8LAYLNZ8BQ6/northernharrierlaurierothberg Blog - From Our Mailbag... Here are Laurie Rothberg's northern harrier painting... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452607481692-55DFKGPPC341FSW4DK72/northern+harrier Blog - From Our Mailbag... ...and the photo that inspired it. We took this picture at the visitors' center at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452607618916-8KWN2PJJHWK9EBV0WSH8/hornedlark Blog - From Our Mailbag... Kathy Zimmerman's horned lark photo, taken in South Dakota. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452607914595-H4K5ZSQC5WS8SWD9L54G/mountainchickadee Blog - From Our Mailbag... A mountain chickadee photographed in New Mexico. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/malheur-wildlife-refuge-the-militia-and-the-audubon-society monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452101378795-UH1G496U12YCGB3COYVI/greaterwhitefrontedgoosemalheur Blog - Malheur Wildlife Refuge, the Militia and the Audubon Society A greater white-fronted goose specimen Pamelia photographed at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge nature museum in southeastern Oregon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452101587279-P8IQF9AP43BYDJTON5D4/birdplumagehat Blog - Malheur Wildlife Refuge, the Militia and the Audubon Society Feathered hats were so fashionable at the turn of the 20th century that millions of birds were killed to provide plumage for them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452103520894-KNX82ITBLMMCI9KYCYTX/greategretsmalheur Blog - Malheur Wildlife Refuge, the Militia and the Audubon Society These are great egrets, a species brought to the verge of extinction by the craze for those fashionable hats. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452101514631-OOA0HPJI8NY2J9L8TO0T/northernharriermalheur Blog - Malheur Wildlife Refuge, the Militia and the Audubon Society A northern harrier at the Malheur refuge museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452102963362-EH5FSNMCUOSD1J64VF1Q/malheurrefugesign Blog - Malheur Wildlife Refuge, the Militia and the Audubon Society The refuge has a driving route for bird-watching visitors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452103177840-WVV8A5VU9AP1IIETH96T/westerntanagermalheur Blog - Malheur Wildlife Refuge, the Militia and the Audubon Society A western tanager specimen, again from the Malheur refuge display. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452103359975-K34WG18KOF4KO8AERJJN/hornedgrebemalheur Blog - Malheur Wildlife Refuge, the Militia and the Audubon Society A horned grebe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452103908006-1HUD92Y74S6CLMLZYJDF/canadageesemalheur Blog - Malheur Wildlife Refuge, the Militia and the Audubon Society At the Malheur refuge we saw Canada geese and a variety of other waterfowl, wading birds and raptors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452104709962-3N4NFMPB01DS07S42PHO/guybradley Blog - Malheur Wildlife Refuge, the Militia and the Audubon Society Guy Bradley, now an icon in conservation, was just 35 when an egret poacher in Florida shot and killed him. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/our-visit-to-the-malheur-national-wildlife-refuge-site-of-the-standoff monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452098464862-SXDMVLOZMY5BMN12C7EG/malheurnationalwildliferefugesign Blog - Our Visit to the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Site of the Militia Takeover Welcome to Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Oregon. It's a key stop for birds on the Pacific Flyway migration route. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452098210186-NMURR9KAK7VG54P0FTBS/coyotemalheur Blog - Our Visit to the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Site of the Militia Takeover The coyote raced across a field, stopped, turned to look back at us, then ran off. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452097762451-DP6K3QPCG53LKKNOPMM5/barnowlmalheur Blog - Our Visit to the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Site of the Militia Takeover A barn owl specimen from the Malheur refuge's wildlife display. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452097956936-PRIFGJO44B0YJS8MLKSB/malheurrefugebuilding Blog - Our Visit to the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Site of the Militia Takeover A main building at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. I'm not sure if this is the one taken over by the militia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452098139104-1OKU1UFB15D9YCLWOFPM/Craig+Neff+malheur+refuge Blog - Our Visit to the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Site of the Militia Takeover I walked around the remote refuge with Pamelia under eastern Oregon's big sky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452098868823-LLJB4ADU0PD3E62TQWYP/blackbelliedplovermalheur Blog - Our Visit to the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Site of the Militia Takeover A black-bellied plover specimen from the bird display. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452099038899-BMTE1WCSLSTC9TKHXMPU/mountainbluebirdmalheur Blog - Our Visit to the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Site of the Militia Takeover A mountain bluebird. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452099306303-FNIBTZTD72P60L84DF5B/greateryellowlegsmalheur Blog - Our Visit to the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Site of the Militia Takeover A greater yellowlegs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452099415321-2ZDZRMDO7TEQ1ED3KWK3/malheurbirddisplay Blog - Our Visit to the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Site of the Militia Takeover Malheur's small but wonderful nature center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452099506991-SYRHGKCRPCR4D8SYV6L5/sharpshinnedhawkmalheur Blog - Our Visit to the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Site of the Militia Takeover A sharp-shinned hawk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452099643845-RGJPR6W5FNWZEYDVU9AK/longbilledcurleweggsmalheur Blog - Our Visit to the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Site of the Militia Takeover The refuge has drawers full of egg specimens, such as these from a long-billed curlew. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/countdown-to-2016 monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/what-happens-when-a-ship-cant-land monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450353220611-562WQ86W08QEEW358A8J/south+georgia+island Blog - Stuck at Sea In the Antarctic With A Rescued Bird, A Paintbrush and a Stowaway So close yet so far: On a day of wild waves and constantly changing weather—including sideways-blowing snow and brief explosions of sunshine—we couldn't reach the spectacular South Georgia shores in front of us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450878867231-KUQ32E7FTSG7OKIZVE81/high+wind+funny Blog - Stuck at Sea In the Antarctic With A Rescued Bird, A Paintbrush and a Stowaway The ever-fun One Oceans Expeditions team and trip organizer/zoologist/wildlife photographer Mark Carwardine had prepared us for high-wind days with a slide show earlier in the voyage. This was one of my favorite slides. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450879352522-MBZJR8352ZGP9KPNB0TD/pamelia+markwood+photography Blog - Stuck at Sea In the Antarctic With A Rescued Bird, A Paintbrush and a Stowaway Even in rough conditions, our cabin window afforded Pamelia a good view for photographing birds and other sights. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450354136839-TAQ905BR1JW9U6K1VRKW/iceberg+south+georgia+island Blog - Stuck at Sea In the Antarctic With A Rescued Bird, A Paintbrush and a Stowaway Having passed the Antarctic Convergence (where cold and warm ocean waters collide and the Antarctic climate and ecosystems begin) we were seeing icebergs more regularly. They glowed blue from the light hitting an exceptionally clear, dense, air-bubble-less type of ice that absorbs every color of light except blue. It's air bubbles that make ice look white. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450713417218-FVOMYXQ4CZTIVKFST2G6/stromness Blog - Stuck at Sea In the Antarctic With A Rescued Bird, A Paintbrush and a Stowaway The ship brought us within sight of the abandoned Stromness whaling station. This is where the remarkable explorer Ernest Shackleton, desperate to find help for his stranded crew, arrived in May 1916 after surviving not only months with his ship locked in sea ice, but also a journey to desolate Elephant Island, an 800-mile open-water voyage to South Georgia in a lifeboat and finally a nonstop, last-ounce-of-energy crossing of the mountains shown here. We would be visiting Shackleton's grave soon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450879231292-1NWFMTZWP3JLX737SIWI/sergeyvavilovsouthgeorgia Blog - Stuck at Sea In the Antarctic With A Rescued Bird, A Paintbrush and a Stowaway A few hearty souls ventured onto the bow during lulls in the winds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450813273912-YHRIC3RQ7JLGLJO4WB06/common+diving+petrel Blog - Stuck at Sea In the Antarctic With A Rescued Bird, A Paintbrush and a Stowaway Simon Boyes held up the web-footed common diving petrel for all of us to see before releasing it from the side of the ship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450710960468-LOAYOST252WTAWWQQVUC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Stuck at Sea In the Antarctic With A Rescued Bird, A Paintbrush and a Stowaway https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450715220207-GGUSBURP4YP672OCHI3X/darwin+down+house Blog - Stuck at Sea In the Antarctic With A Rescued Bird, A Paintbrush and a Stowaway Here's Charles Darwin with us in May 2015 at his home, Down House, in England. This is the famous Sand Walk on which he took his daily strolls with his beloved dogs back in the 1800s. Darwin called it his "thinking path." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450708639764-2IYYRFVNUIY44M2J7BT2/charles+darwin+seasick Blog - Stuck at Sea In the Antarctic With A Rescued Bird, A Paintbrush and a Stowaway https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450354599674-M8KXT5B6HOD8DI9VP6XV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Stuck at Sea In the Antarctic With A Rescued Bird, A Paintbrush and a Stowaway She said that the phone sometimes blocked her view as she was painting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450723892896-AEQLO7114EO5FMME74AA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Stuck at Sea In the Antarctic With A Rescued Bird, A Paintbrush and a Stowaway In our cabin, the gallery of Pamelia's penguin and Falkland Island bird studies was growing. That large study in the middle was her second time-lapse attempt at a king penguin—and still she felt that she did not get it right. But that's why you do multiple studies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450365542000-GZ179BN60FBDIBWIEC6K/south+georgia+island+sunset Blog - Stuck at Sea In the Antarctic With A Rescued Bird, A Paintbrush and a Stowaway Sunset over South Georgia Island. Coming next: Whaling, rat patrols, rare ducks and 10 a.m. whiskey? https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/dont-mess-with-a-male-fur-seal monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449940566988-6HB31EHJFIUKSAXEXPCK/fur+seal+south+georgia Blog - Don't Mess With a Fur Seal The Antarctic fur seal startled me by charging out from behind a clump of tussock grass. He made clear that I had ventured into his territory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450049982241-70LJ1V75A5TRE2TDXRWJ/tussock+grass+gold+harbor Blog - Don't Mess With a Fur Seal We climbed slowly toward the nest on slick mud and patches of snow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450121383846-F7H82KUIHHMAH3GMO13B/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Don't Mess With a Fur Seal Little did I realize when I began the ascent that the tussock grass was loaded with Antarctic fur seals... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450192161687-O7LHGYNQOBN8JNYSQPRN/antarctic+fur+seal Blog - Don't Mess With a Fur Seal ...or how handsome those those seals look... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450121553818-7O06VTVSX1ZVO8D0RL0O/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Don't Mess With a Fur Seal ...or how long and sharp their teeth are. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450113785245-G5MW43XND7OXY3TXNIPF/lightmantledalbatrossBC8A2017.jpg Blog - Don't Mess With a Fur Seal The light-mantled albatross was even more beautiful than I expected. Look at that eye! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450124800433-WMCC95KQ6RXBZMNT1YBL/lightmantledalbatrossnest Blog - Don't Mess With a Fur Seal Here's an albatross arriving at the nest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450124914909-OE211QHVW604H63X7X9Q/light+mantled+albatross+south+georgia Blog - Don't Mess With a Fur Seal Like all albatrosses, light-mantleds are declining in number. As with many other types, these albatrosses often get caught on the baited hooks of commercial long-line fishing boats and drown. Happily, this wasn't the last we would see of light-mantleds on our trip—though our next encounter with them, at a different location on South Georgia, would be in crazier conditions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450126283958-NHJP1QOY6DTNWBH0LMBB/shag+south+georgia Blog - Don't Mess With a Fur Seal Before going down the hill I looked out over Gold Harbor at a lovely rock shag gliding in the distance. On the Zodiac ride in we had seen other sea birds, including Antarctic terns and imperial shags. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449940839548-GY2RN3C4NMHQ2REM8JOI/elephant+seal+south+georgia Blog - Don't Mess With a Fur Seal Multi-ton male southern elephant seals—known as "beachmasters," ruling large swaths of the shore and "harems" of up to 100 females (see our Dec. 9 post, below) —relaxed in the sand... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449940954589-G2MK05FVKYRBCANYLGH5/elephant+seals+gold+harbor Blog - Don't Mess With a Fur Seal ..with one of the two Gold Harbor glaciers behind them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450143797718-PSTESCACT3AVTIRQZE20/glacier+south+georgia+island Blog - Don't Mess With a Fur Seal Here's a closer look at the awesome mass of ice and snow and its hint of glowing blue. The well-defined rock strata bespeak South Georgia Island's deep geologic history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449941082926-YVKXYSVD9DMX7H5054WA/elephant+seal+snout Blog - Don't Mess With a Fur Seal The snout that gives the elephant seal its name enables a bull like this one to trumpet his deep, lion-like roar across the entire beach. It also helps him conserve moisture when breathing, an important function when the bull is on land in breeding season and can't leave the beach to feed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449941243478-6MROWAU29YN3XEJSTVQV/southern+elephant+seal Blog - Don't Mess With a Fur Seal This jovial-looking male had been through some battles, as you could see from the scars on his neck. He had earned his status as a beachmaster. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449941593488-EANRYIQOO1SEXAGKBPKA/southern+elephant+seal+swim Blog - Don't Mess With a Fur Seal Males typically grow to about 16 feet—so long that the front and rear of their bodies look like separate pieces in the water. This one was a so-called "sneaker," a male who tries to sneak onto the beach and mate with a female when the beachmaster isn't looking. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450143392361-GEJIMPZDTU13OLFNG1KF/elephant+seal+pup Blog - Don't Mess With a Fur Seal Some young elephant seals turned eroded tussock clumps into pillows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450143440446-LGK1QZE0RY505NYHTOY3/elephant+seals+gold+harbor Blog - Don't Mess With a Fur Seal Beachmasters, mothers, pups and weaned youngsters—called weaners—crowded together along the water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450143511681-LC6F9W9N69KQNHTXEL2V/elephant+seal+weaners Blog - Don't Mess With a Fur Seal These weaners came three to a pack. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449941902857-9RQ1FQG2E0QGCDBTL3CD/southern+elephant+seals+skuas Blog - Don't Mess With a Fur Seal These fearless brown birds are skuas. We watched them suddenly fly in en masse to devour what we think was the placenta of a seal pup that had just been born. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449943326745-CJ54MEELGAJE652MD4H5/giant+petrel+south+georgia Blog - Don't Mess With a Fur Seal Southern giant petrels also arrived to join the feast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449942820949-HXKAI1CJMDK5SZ9NELKL/gentoo+penguin+south+georgia Blog - Don't Mess With a Fur Seal Wait—who was this? A species of penguin that Pamelia and I had not seen before on this trip? Indeed, it was a gentoo penguin, one of a handful of that variety that came ashore in front of us. Gentoos are the fastest-swimming penguins (up to 22 mph underwater) and have the most prominent tails. I'll save the tale of penguin tails for later. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449943098150-ADAC9FPZEUU7WLXSEC64/gentoo+penguin+gold+harbor Blog - Don't Mess With a Fur Seal Gentoos are a near-threatened species, but recent evidence suggests that they may be less adversely affected by climate change than certain other penguin species because they are less dependent on sea ice to survive. That is, when feeding they don't rely as heavily on the tiny shrimp-like creatures called krill that proliferate on the underside of sea ice and form a foundation of the food chain in the Antarctic's rich waters. In fact, as sea ice has declined around the Antarctic peninsula, causing sharp drops in populations of some other penguins, gentoo numbers on the peninsula have been increasing. More on that whole story later as well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449942880944-0684LUJF05QIYHOLIGL4/gentoo+penguin+elephant+seals Blog - Don't Mess With a Fur Seal This one may look small (and, might I add, courageous) next to massive elephant seals, but gentoos, which stand 30 inches tall, are the third-largest penguin species after four-foot-tall emperors and three-foot-tall kings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450049672352-FJDBUQSZ4Y8SUJ9WB6XJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Don't Mess With a Fur Seal Speaking of which, king penguins—whom we had seen by the hundreds of thousands breeding and molting just a few hours earlier at St. Andrews Bay on South Georgia (see previous post, below)—were amassed on the beach at Gold Harbor. That's our wonderful floating home, the Sergey Vavilov, in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450143041149-6WIM3QA91G2GHIBKDWGT/king+penguins+gold+harbor Blog - Don't Mess With a Fur Seal As I was saying... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450144882398-SGE780YWO77M8KXN3CZG/king+penguins+gold+harbor Blog - Don't Mess With a Fur Seal ...Gold Harbor had a LOT of king penguins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450048558470-499CMGJ9BG5VFP92MLRS/king+penguin+chick Blog - Don't Mess With a Fur Seal This king chick seemed to be wearing an oversized coat. Note the reptile-like feet, a reminder that penguins and other birds evolved from dinosaurs. In a thrilling moment for me, a different chick and an adult later approached me as I sat on the ground. They sniffed and pecked at my boot. Pamelia and I were again finding that if we stayed in one spot for long enough, the animals would come to us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450143939978-R8JJCH4OTEDB3UIPQNRW/skua+penguins+south+georgia Blog - Don't Mess With a Fur Seal Skuas are predators who will feed on penguin eggs or chicks, and they made frequent reconnaissance runs over the king colony. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450143992765-CMMVD28G5HVTA62FCUBR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Don't Mess With a Fur Seal One king penguin chick shooed away a skua that seemed to be ominously eyeing him for lunch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450144153518-RMB41T3HKWBOCL09A4QL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Don't Mess With a Fur Seal This skua was attracted to Pamelia and nearly landed on her head—no small matter for either of them, given that skuas have a four- to five-foot wingspan and weigh about 17 pounds (more than a bowling ball). Instead he plunked down on the ground just a few inches from her feet and, in yet another unforgettable experience, stayed there for a long time staring up at her. (Pamelia was not photographing him, by the way; she was frozen in place watching him.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449941983874-CSCN4FUD93YCA9ZBS5YJ/southern+elephant+seal+weaner Blog - Don't Mess With a Fur Seal Near the end of the afternoon, a weaner fell asleep on the tarp on which our crew members had carried gear; they resisted the temptation to wrap him up and take him back to the ship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450196562373-KPZNB14FK3089WPL08YZ/craig+neff Blog - Don't Mess With a Fur Seal What an amazing afternoon in Gold Harbor! https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/vc7g8c571ly49x8pjfydrzs8ecb6cg monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/one-minute-with-king-penguins-a-naturalists-notebook-video monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/on-a-beach-with-200000-king-penguins-and-thousands-of-elephant-seals monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449570851956-BL4E2W2S3AI9DVLEZJ3G/image-asset.jpeg Blog - On a Beach With 200,000 King Penguins and Southern Elephant Seals The expanse of adult penguins and chicks at St. Andrews Bay on South Georgia Island was hard to fully absorb. It spread in every direction. (Please note that you can click on each photo in this blog and see it much larger.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449594957068-8JK6OF1D5BQO0GTY6Z3M/image-asset.jpeg Blog - On a Beach With 200,000 King Penguins and Southern Elephant Seals The farther south we sailed, the longer the days were becoming in the Southern Hemisphere spring. At 4:30 a.m. the sun at St. Andrews Bay was already illuminating some of South Georgia's spectacular mountains. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449592830713-ZPZAJ5K42N3PRGC283JU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - On a Beach With 200,000 King Penguins and Southern Elephant Seals As always, an early Zodiac tested the route to shore and picked a landing spot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449589058378-HQSCI1NPN85L4IK6HSDH/zodiac+south+georgia Blog - On a Beach With 200,000 King Penguins and Southern Elephant Seals Ten to 12 expeditioners climbed into each Zodiac... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449589193501-BS9N11G3Y5ASS0LPFL8Z/image-asset.jpeg Blog - On a Beach With 200,000 King Penguins and Southern Elephant Seals ...and off we zoomed toward a shore where we human adventurers would be outnumbered at least 2,000 to one—2,000 to one!—by king penguins and southern elephant seals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449589495330-OND0JXHCYB5LSXFPAI0T/image-asset.jpeg Blog - On a Beach With 200,000 King Penguins and Southern Elephant Seals Our new Swedish friend Eva Westerholm, a former pro soccer player and a cornerstone of the excellent and international One Oceans Expedition team, commanded the Zodiac and filled us in on what to do when we landed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449589380051-GZCDZKN35J453YB2E8ZC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - On a Beach With 200,000 King Penguins and Southern Elephant Seals Each of those tiny dots was a king penguin or a southern elephant seal. You can also see a few penguins swimming and dolphining in the foreground. We always think of penguins endearingly waddling on land, but these flightless birds spend three-quarters of their lives in their primary home, the water—their wings have effectively evolved into flippers—and they're agile, acrobatic swimmers. King penguins can dive 1,000 feet and stay submerged for five minutes while feeding on small fish and squid. They're amazing animals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449589117216-ZUBE2F8AAIU1KFCA1FK4/zodiac+south+georgia1 Blog - On a Beach With 200,000 King Penguins and Southern Elephant Seals Hundreds of the king penguins seemed eager to welcome us at the landing site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449589625580-YJANB2528QXENH0GLD8T/penguins+swim+south+georgia Blog - On a Beach With 200,000 King Penguins and Southern Elephant Seals We saw more of them swimming, heard their loud chatter and whiffed the tangy smell of penguin guano as we neared shore. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449607819212-GECEVY7TNKIVDQ20PSSB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - On a Beach With 200,000 King Penguins and Southern Elephant Seals March of the Penguins? This wasn't the same species as in that wonderful documentary, but the king penguins were marching everywhere we looked on the two-mile curve of beach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449619671422-6TDMKDXE608HT6WLZMHV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - On a Beach With 200,000 King Penguins and Southern Elephant Seals The penguins mingled among us, unperturbed by our presence and often eager to approach us for a closer look https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449605763108-I7HJAHIZG8FLQIEIP0PV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - On a Beach With 200,000 King Penguins and Southern Elephant Seals As their name suggests, king penguins are among the most regal-looking of the world's 18 penguin species. At three feet tall and about 40 pounds, they are second in size only to four-foot-tall, up-to-100-pound emperor penguins, which live on the Antarctic continent (and were the subject of March of the Penguins). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449620507146-72XKGQWD3BDUCSBZTT0S/king+penguin+chick Blog - On a Beach With 200,000 King Penguins and Southern Elephant Seals Eight-month-old chicks often followed their mothers around begging to be fed. Quite a few of the mothers were still out at sea gathering food. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449618958154-ZCQ6LBIOSK6FX27P0MC7/king+penguins+south+georgia2 Blog - On a Beach With 200,000 King Penguins and Southern Elephant Seals The birds communicated in ways we couldn't always understand. Many of the chicks gathered in groups called creches that were overseen by a small number of adults. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449605852713-AZDEPPLT9A0HPOANZBL9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - On a Beach With 200,000 King Penguins and Southern Elephant Seals The chicks' fluffy brown coats gave them an adorably comical look but weren't waterproof, so the chicks couldn't go into the ocean. The coats will fall off through molting a few months from now and the young penguins will head to sea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449606722482-FGBG2EZU15VOE8NAFK4J/image-asset.jpeg Blog - On a Beach With 200,000 King Penguins and Southern Elephant Seals Many of the adult king penguins were already molting. With their feathers falling out they, like the chicks, weren't waterproof and couldn't go into the ocean to feed. Instead they remained on shore, staying as still as possible to avoid wasting energy. Note the angled-up feet: King penguins (like the emperors in March of the Penguins) cradle their egg atop their feet to keep it warm and dry. They frequently stand in this tilted-back posture even without an egg, as was the case here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449622297810-H5J1YH7S3C1HVDITNPVH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - On a Beach With 200,000 King Penguins and Southern Elephant Seals The molting process wasn't always pretty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449661086660-LIAM476A855P9ZCQJ3A9/king+penguins+funny Blog - On a Beach With 200,000 King Penguins and Southern Elephant Seals The penguins' seemingly headless poses made for fun photos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449663428251-V28N5Y8PAM2QJ6GGG9Q3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - On a Beach With 200,000 King Penguins and Southern Elephant Seals A resting chick showed us the underside of its leathery, ground-gripping feet, which didn't look so different from our winter gloves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449624805131-S98TS6QLTDDK4D1IM6UA/king+penguins Blog - On a Beach With 200,000 King Penguins and Southern Elephant Seals Some of the penguins went off to frolic on a snowy hillside at the back of the beach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449659967110-OBTLCKLZEIKLQR3Y2KXS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - On a Beach With 200,000 King Penguins and Southern Elephant Seals Many thousands of them gathered along, and swam in, a runoff stream from the retreating glacier. Yes, that's snow falling. Squalls moved in, typical of the constantly changing weather in this part of the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449620087038-S8NFH2QRFG0L57N92HSZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - On a Beach With 200,000 King Penguins and Southern Elephant Seals King penguins can live 15 to 20 years in the wild, or not make it past a few months as a chick at St. Andrews. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449620151235-AMV0X45FX33LF4RTTKP5/skua+penguins Blog - On a Beach With 200,000 King Penguins and Southern Elephant Seals The skuas were a constant reminder of the threat to penguin chicks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449658933955-EQY70TIBMRFC6TSWGLDE/southern+giant+petrel Blog - On a Beach With 200,000 King Penguins and Southern Elephant Seals As were the southern giant petrels (wingspan up to seven feet), a species we would see often in the days ahead (sometimes pulling at a penguin or seal carcass). That tube atop the bill is for excreting salt from the ocean water it drinks, an evolutionary feature that other seabirds share, though not always so prominently. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449624207706-HP4UKIRATF9B2HQDIP7U/image-asset.jpeg Blog - On a Beach With 200,000 King Penguins and Southern Elephant Seals This curious elephant seal pup stared, sniffed and grunted at a dead giant petrel for several minutes.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449625842949-OKRDAEVULJ74CY91LF5O/image-asset.jpeg Blog - On a Beach With 200,000 King Penguins and Southern Elephant Seals Pamelia was one of the many ground-based shooters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449622399763-IG2LW0013V5J05XMG1QD/Pamelia+Markwood+penguin Blog - On a Beach With 200,000 King Penguins and Southern Elephant Seals This chick became particularly fond of her—or at least her boot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449624855011-IGQJM8RMB7AU42UNUKMG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - On a Beach With 200,000 King Penguins and Southern Elephant Seals This elephant seal pup wiggled his way more than 20 feet to get within an arm's length of Pamelia as she sat on the ground. The two stared into each other's eyes for several minutes—a pair of mammal cousins from different species and parts of the planet connecting in a way Pamelia will never forget. I should note that at this time in the pups' lives, their mothers have left them to fend for themselves. The pups haven't realized yet that their mothers aren't returning, and seem to crave companionship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449622666240-9DPZS32PL2GDLZHSATXW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - On a Beach With 200,000 King Penguins and Southern Elephant Seals Among those taking in the action in our group of expeditioners was award-winning wildlife filmmaker Peter Bassett (far left), one of David Attenborough's former BBC producers, who was shooting footage throughout the trip. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449606221297-1JGXMKMX27ZI0VF1Q68L/king+penguin+elephant+seals Blog - On a Beach With 200,000 King Penguins and Southern Elephant Seals The penguins and seals coexisted comfortably... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449604414971-JUT9GEUL17MYSFPZU85R/image-asset.jpeg Blog - On a Beach With 200,000 King Penguins and Southern Elephant Seals ...though the undisputed bosses of the beach were the roaring "beachmaster" male elephant seals. Each weighed between 5,000 and 9,000 pounds—southern elephant seal bulls are easily the heaviest carnivorous mammals on the planet—and ruled a "harem" of up to 100 far smaller females, which weighed one-fifth as much. The beachmasters fiercely defended their turf against other males who tried to sneak in and mate with harem members. Check out all the fight scars on this guy's neck and chest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449623103170-CKLSQCNATFLUCSHLG8V8/elephant+seal+fight Blog - On a Beach With 200,000 King Penguins and Southern Elephant Seals This was a typical example of mouth-to-mouth combat. The beachmaster always won. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449623508411-USIGA89Y6BBZZKVZZZYC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - On a Beach With 200,000 King Penguins and Southern Elephant Seals By contrast, the weaned seal pups—called weaners—were playful... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449623659414-ZTJDHFUC8AWBWUXKUJ10/elephant+seal+pup Blog - On a Beach With 200,000 King Penguins and Southern Elephant Seals ...and irresistibly cute. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449661219902-FVU5CRXW53O96353OG0A/image-asset.jpeg Blog - On a Beach With 200,000 King Penguins and Southern Elephant Seals Some pups were still nursing. They would be doubling and tripling and quadrupling in size in a matter of days on milk that is more than 50 percent milk fat, compared to four percent for human mothers' milk. (The mothers can end up losing hundreds of pounds during nursing.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449623707970-SJ5TQGYI1CK3H87BQ8T1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - On a Beach With 200,000 King Penguins and Southern Elephant Seals Nearly all of the seals seemed content to lounge around in the 30-degree sunshine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449661260046-1BONTCLMTCEH3E3B9I80/southern+elephant+seal Blog - On a Beach With 200,000 King Penguins and Southern Elephant Seals Though it was easy to chuckle at the southern elephant seals' loud and frequent vocalizations—most of which sounded like embarrassing human bodily functions—it was sobering to recall that humans hunted them to near-extinction in the 19th century. Their numbers are starting to fall again, for reasons that aren't entirely clear. These majestic animals regularly dive more than half a mile underwater (sometimes more than a mile) and stay submerged for more than 20 minutes when hunting for fish and squid. We looked forward to seeing and studying more of them in the days ahead. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449659828437-35DKR5OM2ZA1HW12ZVGN/king+penguin Blog - On a Beach With 200,000 King Penguins and Southern Elephant Seals It was hail and farewell to this colony of kings, but our penguin experiences were only beginning to unfold. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449587821887-FZ05I8HAB5WRTAEFU1U2/zodiac+south+georgia+island Blog - On a Beach With 200,000 King Penguins and Southern Elephant Seals A last view of St. Andrews from the departing Zodiac. Spectacular to the end. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/idm9jrz1uih1n44ofzfa4fxkw0l29w monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449226635467-9XTX5C5P7E31RHO0AMLK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Eight Things to Do If You Hit 30-Foot Waves On the Way to Antarctica From the third deck on the Akademik Sergey Vavilov—normally about 15 feet above the water line—we looked up at colossal waves such as this one... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449247604139-N5EXSIE9YYX87GW24L1P/big+waves+southern+ocean1 Blog - Eight Things to Do If You Hit 30-Foot Waves On the Way to Antarctica ...and these... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449247817080-OC0C9GUOSNJYTBW91SDX/big+waves+southern+ocean2 Blog - Eight Things to Do If You Hit 30-Foot Waves On the Way to Antarctica ...and these... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449247866461-LRRHVIFEYIOEM09SMJQL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Eight Things to Do If You Hit 30-Foot Waves On the Way to Antarctica ...and these... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449326217257-3EHDMSBZG8VWIJDD358R/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Eight Things to Do If You Hit 30-Foot Waves On the Way to Antarctica ...and oh, yeah, it started to snow heavily. That orange pod is one of the lifeboats, designed to sardine-pack 56 passengers, an adventure we hoped not to experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449326293954-J9W36IY3DP10F82TO4H5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Eight Things to Do If You Hit 30-Foot Waves On the Way to Antarctica How is the Antarctic defined? Many scientists will tell you it begins not at 66 degrees south latitude (the start of the geographical Antarctic Circle) but at the more northerly and varying line of the convergence, where warm and cold oceans meet, the Antarctic environment starts and the sea becomes richer with churned-up nutrients, feeding a profusion of marine wildlife and birds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449412245950-RM43WQ6243T6JTKEWFX2/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Eight Things to Do If You Hit 30-Foot Waves On the Way to Antarctica That's Ernest Shackleton's famously ice-trapped ship, the Endurance. Enriched by the insights of our ship's spellbinding young Scottish historian, Katie Murray, we would in the days ahead be following Shackleton's path, rediscovering his remarkable tale of survival and even seeing his final resting place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449412514084-CRCPTD0IZI1RKYUGKAEB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Eight Things to Do If You Hit 30-Foot Waves On the Way to Antarctica We would see all of these except the Ross seal, which lives closer to the South Pole. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449326397778-NWB2V1TL4O0EWLQHU0ZC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Eight Things to Do If You Hit 30-Foot Waves On the Way to Antarctica Pamelia at the scrubbing station. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449333390290-G0J0B61Z29XDGN5TKS5Q/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Eight Things to Do If You Hit 30-Foot Waves On the Way to Antarctica Pamelia's sense of artistic adventure matched the wild sea conditions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449333440191-WPF76Y3XUYAB7FD1PBBE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Eight Things to Do If You Hit 30-Foot Waves On the Way to Antarctica This is a study using white ink in a notebook with black paper, for which she had to think in reverse when trying to represent dark and light. In the days ahead Pamelia would be painting and drawing on the ship and on land, producing 30 studies and experimenting with a video component that we'll show you in the days ahead. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449410574907-FDL2HQHQ2QO05BAMAIYY/willis+island Blog - Eight Things to Do If You Hit 30-Foot Waves On the Way to Antarctica Land ho! We were about to embark on four days of exploring South Georgia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449410534286-CFBJXGNIXZ9346QSO57D/south+georgia+island Blog - Eight Things to Do If You Hit 30-Foot Waves On the Way to Antarctica Inhospitable? That's what explorers from Captain Cook on have called it, but the animals living there would turn out to be quite hospitable to us human visitors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449421599895-IU1KWX5OUYQSUEXJOS1H/king+penguin+chick+south+georgia Blog - Eight Things to Do If You Hit 30-Foot Waves On the Way to Antarctica Look at what's ahead! https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/falkland-adventures-ii-carcass-island-and-cobbs-wren monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448990661515-OMWW37YOD10P0F57GNJG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Antarctic Diary: The Falklands' Endemic Birds and the Value of Sitting Still A Falkland flightless steamer duck took her chicks out for a swim in waves that knocked them about but didn't stop them from huddling near her. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449097847817-CAXXZNSMVP0RS2985J0P/falklands+map Blog - Antarctic Diary: The Falklands' Endemic Birds and the Value of Sitting Still Carcass Island was our second stop in the West Falklands; we would next head to the East Falklands to see Stanley and bird-nesting habitats around it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448990548896-RDYD06QDNC5IJ1B88ATH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Antarctic Diary: The Falklands' Endemic Birds and the Value of Sitting Still We roamed the tussock grass and rocky shore of Carcass Island, where in a remarkable stretch of just 100 yards we watched 15 species of birds flying, swimming, resting, feeding and nesting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449072103849-NNBR56TWFGU72RQJNG5E/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Antarctic Diary: The Falklands' Endemic Birds and the Value of Sitting Still A blackish oystercatcher posed coyly... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449075122227-1HKDGKUUXM1NUNEWRKE7/blackish+oystercatcher Blog - Antarctic Diary: The Falklands' Endemic Birds and the Value of Sitting Still ...before revealing his brilliant orange bill... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449075334481-TV5I2K4RMVHBK24GJCBP/blackish+oystercatcher+1 Blog - Antarctic Diary: The Falklands' Endemic Birds and the Value of Sitting Still ...and flying off. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449074793020-LB60RXRNK1YSIMUTNWUW/Cobb%27s+wren Blog - Antarctic Diary: The Falklands' Endemic Birds and the Value of Sitting Still Filled with personality, the endearing Cobb's wren serenaded us when not zipping around hunting for insects and small crustaceans in the tidal zone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449076237179-IYMAY17FLNN2XT37KRGY/Cobb%27s+wren+2 Blog - Antarctic Diary: The Falklands' Endemic Birds and the Value of Sitting Still As amazing as this sounds, the Cobb's wren sang even when he had an insect in his beak. We loved this little guy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449076479055-Q4SRDE1TQZ7HE9C2GA2P/falklands+flightless+steamer+duck Blog - Antarctic Diary: The Falklands' Endemic Birds and the Value of Sitting Still The mother seemed to be sounding a call for her parade of Falkland flightless steamer ducklings to march to the water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449076561299-QZFHX9M7UHP3J8HAM7H9/falklands+flightless+steamer+duck+chicks Blog - Antarctic Diary: The Falklands' Endemic Birds and the Value of Sitting Still The cuteness of the ducklings kept us and our cameras focused on them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449078125878-67YTAX2YOXO3JOPS8CJB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Antarctic Diary: The Falklands' Endemic Birds and the Value of Sitting Still A mantra for the trip: Sit quietly and observe. Let wildlife come to you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449078471246-BFBYY75FV8WZVVT0WNPR/black-crowned+night+heron Blog - Antarctic Diary: The Falklands' Endemic Birds and the Value of Sitting Still A juvenile black-crowned night heron stayed in the shadows of a low-tide rock... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449078543816-L3H38STXOF8KMD1ZNUR1/black+crowned+night+heron+juvenile Blog - Antarctic Diary: The Falklands' Endemic Birds and the Value of Sitting Still ...and flashed a wing like a poker player fanning his cards. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449078715404-JKYKE7AOT6ST59JI7JEZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Antarctic Diary: The Falklands' Endemic Birds and the Value of Sitting Still This and several other striking Magellanic oystercatchers patrolled the tidal edge. What a gorgeous yellow eye! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449078774257-LODCF1C3BX4MMZPCVNU3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Antarctic Diary: The Falklands' Endemic Birds and the Value of Sitting Still One Magellanic oystercatcher perched on her nest in front of us—unless it was a fake nest. Magellanic oystercatchers sometimes try to draw attention from their actual nest by sitting elsewhere and pretending that that's their nest. (I think this nest was the real deal.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449078873820-Z2F6ALNIIFX4MURKPTAT/rock+shag Blog - Antarctic Diary: The Falklands' Endemic Birds and the Value of Sitting Still A rock shag, distinctive for his red eye patch, splashed down just offshore. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449078920863-TC3FB9PYE1PXWLE6FLZX/tussock+bird Blog - Antarctic Diary: The Falklands' Endemic Birds and the Value of Sitting Still Tussock birds were curious and bold and in some cases walked right up to us, wondering who was visiting their home. They also were in the middle of their breeding season, the Southern Hemisphere spring. As ground nesters they too benefit from the absence of rats on Carcass Island. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449080369477-DNNM5IESBQUMMLHWZU6B/Craig+Neff Blog - Antarctic Diary: The Falklands' Endemic Birds and the Value of Sitting Still The next morning I went out on deck aboard the Akademik Sergey Vavilov and checked out the weather for Day Two in the Falklands: cold, windy and rainy, with a chance of snow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449083341132-IUY941DZU3L1PY831DYQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Antarctic Diary: The Falklands' Endemic Birds and the Value of Sitting Still The Gypsy Cove hike begins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449083536210-YCTV0ZGOXRXVXM4XU14O/gypsy+cove+falklands Blog - Antarctic Diary: The Falklands' Endemic Birds and the Value of Sitting Still As elsewhere in the Falklands, yellow gorse—invasive but lovely—adorned the scene. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449083578600-Y7O2K04XZKTHTDCMZ7E3/Magellanic+penguin+eggs Blog - Antarctic Diary: The Falklands' Endemic Birds and the Value of Sitting Still Along the trail we saw a pair of Magellanic penguin eggs in an abandoned burrow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449083636792-ETOUT878V0TY8DAPZO5A/Magellanic+penguin+falklands Blog - Antarctic Diary: The Falklands' Endemic Birds and the Value of Sitting Still A moment later we saw a lone Magellanic penguin. We were not likely to see this South American species of penguin again as we journeyed farther south and closer to Antarctica. But we would see plenty of others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449084050238-6W6R61SSGSGBEY8HTYEI/falklands+landmine+sign Blog - Antarctic Diary: The Falklands' Endemic Birds and the Value of Sitting Still Warning heeded. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449083677125-I2DHS6PCP6C1P86EEP5I/rock+shags+nesting Blog - Antarctic Diary: The Falklands' Endemic Birds and the Value of Sitting Still Rock shags on their nests. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449083737504-NI7WUMZ5X6581PN9VLL5/blechnum+ferns Blog - Antarctic Diary: The Falklands' Endemic Birds and the Value of Sitting Still Our hike took us through a landscape of rock, ferns, lichens and mosses. I believe that this is a blechnum fern. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449083876402-WU5M00RV2ZNPXOK68BU0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Antarctic Diary: The Falklands' Endemic Birds and the Value of Sitting Still https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449083988925-XH7J6ZF2HA1RTEURJ7R5/black-crowned+night+heron Blog - Antarctic Diary: The Falklands' Endemic Birds and the Value of Sitting Still The birds at Gypsy Cove included an adult black-crowned night heron. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449084100943-Y2K7JQ9U7790F16HW268/stanley+falklands Blog - Antarctic Diary: The Falklands' Endemic Birds and the Value of Sitting Still Pamelia sized up Stanley's main street, which we had walked a decade earlier while doing a travel story on rounding the horn of South America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449084144883-FXUEINYO6RZDEIV2T6IK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Antarctic Diary: The Falklands' Endemic Birds and the Value of Sitting Still In Stanley all penguin tracks lead to the visitors' center... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449084180522-FOK1D1H2ZTU6X11CRHGE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Antarctic Diary: The Falklands' Endemic Birds and the Value of Sitting Still ...though Penguin wine is available in the shop up the road... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449084318972-FINKNPHWZXEX7D216B72/Penguin+News+Craig+Neff Blog - Antarctic Diary: The Falklands' Endemic Birds and the Value of Sitting Still ...and father along you'll find all the penguin news that's fit to print. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449089106879-T9GWSO2MDJQ35S0K75ZW/stanley+falklands+stamps Blog - Antarctic Diary: The Falklands' Endemic Birds and the Value of Sitting Still Pamelia went postal shopping for some of the Falklands' beautiful nature stamps. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449084540906-DYZNJ1X1DP7G9V5PY84B/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Antarctic Diary: The Falklands' Endemic Birds and the Value of Sitting Still The only land mammal native to the Falklands was a type of canid called a warrah (also known as a Falkland Islands wolf, Falkland Islands dog or Falkland Islands fox). Warrahs were extensively hunted for their fur and poisoned by Falklands farmers who feared that the canids would kill their sheep. The last one died in 1876, giving warrahs the unfortunate distinction of being the first known canid species to go extinct in historical (as opposed to prehistoric) times. During his visit to the Falklands in the 1830s, Charles Darwin wrote prophetically, "It will be ranked among those species which have perished from the face of the Earth." All that's left now is this statue in the Stanley museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449084627009-0TPFW8D4O0A9DSO5HFU6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Antarctic Diary: The Falklands' Endemic Birds and the Value of Sitting Still Perhaps the most striking sight in the center of Stanley is an arch that was made in 1933 from the jawbones of two blue whales to celebrate a century of British rule in the Falklands. We would be exploring the amazing world of whales and the horrific history of whaling in the Antarctic in the days ahead as we sailed on toward South Georgia Island. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/ashore-on-the-falkland-islands monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448794746870-Q6VKD7RR1ZQKKZJHNRBQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - "Prepare to Have Your Mind Blown": Ashore on the Falkland Islands Black-browed albatrosses and rockhopper penguins shared a nesting ground on West Point Island, our first destination in the Falklands. (Scroll down for earlier posts on how we ended up on this Antarctic expedition and what we had already seen.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448796205786-G6D4ATP090L1MG00Y5E1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - "Prepare to Have Your Mind Blown": Ashore on the Falkland Islands A storm had whipped up wild waters on our trip east from South America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448806508197-5SS1UZFN0928THMIZE21/image-asset.jpeg Blog - "Prepare to Have Your Mind Blown": Ashore on the Falkland Islands Sooty shearwaters had flanked our ship as we headed toward the Falklands. These large birds (40-inch wingspan) breed in the Falklands before an epic migration of nearly 9,000 miles to Norway to escape the Antarctic winter. Trivia note: A flock of crazily behaving sooty shearwaters at North Monterey Bay in California in 1961 inspired then-local resident Alfred Hitchcock to write his classic horror movie The Birds. Scientists believe that the flock members, which were flying into objects, throwing up and even dying, had eaten algae poisoned by sewage runoff. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448807424588-GXIEVNBBMX5GNTI53O8A/capepetrels.jpeg Blog - "Prepare to Have Your Mind Blown": Ashore on the Falkland Islands The distinctive black-and-white wings of cape petrels, one of the Southern Ocean's most common and beautiful birds, had already become a regular sight out our cabin window. All the way to Antarctica we would watch the petrels (which are sometimes called pintado, meaning "painted") gliding effortlessly just inches above the waves, often in groups. After fledging, amazingly enough, they remain at sea for about six years before returning to land. At age seven they start spending four months per year on land to nest and lay one egg. They do that for the remaining 10 or 15 years of their life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448808545996-DVOOUQBQWMX9RKBAS57I/image-asset.jpeg Blog - "Prepare to Have Your Mind Blown": Ashore on the Falkland Islands It's a bit hard to see, but here's one of the playful Peale's dolphins that we passed between South America and the Falklands. Just a few decades ago these highly intelligent mammals were being caught and chopped up to use as bait for crab-fishing, causing alarm among conservationists about their numbers and future. That practice has declined (dolphin fishing is now illegal in Chile, which was the center of the problem), but scientists aren't sure how well the population of these small dolphins has rebounded. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448829350000-F6NH26G2GCGTKFV5LDOW/zodiactowestpoint.jpg Blog - "Prepare to Have Your Mind Blown": Ashore on the Falkland Islands After we rinsed our boots with disinfectant to ensure we were bringing no foreign life forms on shore, our small fleet of Zodiacs headed for West Point Island to start the adventure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448821281422-OSUZYFZXU0EJJAZOA78X/image-asset.jpeg Blog - "Prepare to Have Your Mind Blown": Ashore on the Falkland Islands The first sight as our Zodiac neared the shore: Magellanic penguins on the hillside watching a caracara devour what appeared to be one of their deceased compatriots, with two turkey vultures standing nearby. Magellanics are mid-sized penguins (24 to 30 inches tall) found up and down the coasts of Argentina and Chile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448816831617-FS4CDOAZJZ7PZ76DAW2T/image-asset.jpeg Blog - "Prepare to Have Your Mind Blown": Ashore on the Falkland Islands We trekked for 40 minutes over a rolling, grassy landscape (the Falklands are treeless) to find the black-browed albatross nesting site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448821713797-VR7PQN0YHIL50CKGEOOE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - "Prepare to Have Your Mind Blown": Ashore on the Falkland Islands And there it was, the colony of black-browed albatrosses on their nests, with rockhopper penguins all around them enjoying free protection from predators. The nesting area was set among clumps of tussock grass. When walking around the edge of it you had to watch out to avoid stepping on hidden rockhoppers, which at 20 inches tall are among the world's smallest penguins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448821962853-OLFBV7FXZE75ZMLSSQYN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - "Prepare to Have Your Mind Blown": Ashore on the Falkland Islands Some albatrosses groomed each other... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448822071755-VJDAUX3KK7I9UX660D5M/image-asset.jpeg Blog - "Prepare to Have Your Mind Blown": Ashore on the Falkland Islands ...while others worked on their nests. Albatrosses often mate for life, and their lives can last half a century. They don't start mating until they are seven to 10 years old. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448834383715-LGWOR0J8I5VZI3HXFZHB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - "Prepare to Have Your Mind Blown": Ashore on the Falkland Islands Like other albatrosses, the black-browed has been devastated by human fishing practices, specifically the use of longlines, whose multiple baited hooks attract the birds. These lines, which can be miles long, are dragged near the surface to catch big fish such as tuna and swordfish but end up snagging and drowning large numbers of albatrosses (and sea turtles and other ocean animals) as well. The fishing industry has tried to come up with ways to reduce the albatross kill, but by a decade ago 17 of the world's 24 albatross species were in danger of extinction. The black-browed albatross population in the Falklands has dropped by 67 percent since 1950. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448822255476-T9Y363UPZ9B10J7WQORW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - "Prepare to Have Your Mind Blown": Ashore on the Falkland Islands The rockhoppers—distinctive for their spiky yellow head feathers, diminutive stature and habit of (what else?) hopping from rock to rock—occasionally snatched nesting material from abandoned albatross nests to add to their own nests. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448824035303-YLTI8MPK471BOXMVRWD8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - "Prepare to Have Your Mind Blown": Ashore on the Falkland Islands Our group maintained its own perch, in awe of what we were seeing and careful not to disturb either the penguins or the albatrosses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448824743231-UH3ASDF0OQ8UNZ3O001R/image-asset.jpeg Blog - "Prepare to Have Your Mind Blown": Ashore on the Falkland Islands The rockhoppers were vocal little guys. Click on the video below to see and listen to some of those at the West Point Island colony. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448826135228-IZ1LGG848WNJFA9XJUP0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - "Prepare to Have Your Mind Blown": Ashore on the Falkland Islands Pamelia ventured off to sketch a lone rockhopper that emerged from the tussock grass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448829696089-B35JWAJRLMGIX7CTRFE0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - "Prepare to Have Your Mind Blown": Ashore on the Falkland Islands A striated caracara watched us watching the albatrosses and rockhoppers. Like the penguins, he seemed unafraid of us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448832248132-DC326AVTCJMR3T0Y36NZ/westpointisland.jpeg Blog - "Prepare to Have Your Mind Blown": Ashore on the Falkland Islands Our flock of red-coated wanderers finally hiked back toward the Zodiacs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448844889247-2NHRKD1F6VX0789II7Z0/longtailedmeadowlark3.jpeg Blog - "Prepare to Have Your Mind Blown": Ashore on the Falkland Islands Along the way a long-tailed meadowlark flew to and fro, plucking insects from a patch of gorse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448831636610-AQRMCDYG84ABED905WV9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - "Prepare to Have Your Mind Blown": Ashore on the Falkland Islands I loved his streamlined look when he flew. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448831295110-IRI94GUHFWOOXQHNXZF8/dark-faced+ground+tyrant Blog - "Prepare to Have Your Mind Blown": Ashore on the Falkland Islands Simon, the ship's ornithologist, identified this for me as a dark-faced ground tyrant, a species of tyrant flycatcher. That "tyrant" group got its name based on the behavior of its original member, the Eastern kingbird, which was known to boldly chase larger birds away from its nest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448831482689-U3YWQEOWEL7IJAVL3X57/australthrush.jpeg Blog - "Prepare to Have Your Mind Blown": Ashore on the Falkland Islands As his look suggests, this austral thrush is a relative of our American robins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448831746657-VPIVZBHTTCV3ID64LAD9/uplandgeese.jpeg Blog - "Prepare to Have Your Mind Blown": Ashore on the Falkland Islands As we neared the Zodiacs, a family of upland geese scurried off. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448846171819-ACIP4EPT2RUVZQTAOYXK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - "Prepare to Have Your Mind Blown": Ashore on the Falkland Islands The gorse and the almost Caribbean-blue water at West Point's harbor, where our Zodiacs were waiting for us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448845468808-VL4F9FKP3IAN5FWL6FE1/kelpgoose.jpeg Blog - "Prepare to Have Your Mind Blown": Ashore on the Falkland Islands https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/setting-sail-for-the-antarctic monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448653056600-GPTJXT7LIYSVYNQ1SXR1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Setting Sail for the Antarctic Once on board the Russian ship the Akademik Sergey Vavilov, we left behind the panoramic world of Tierra del Fuego and Ushuaia, Argentina, and entered the Beagle Channel—with a warning that high winds and rough seas would greet us within a few hours. (See our earlier blog posts below for the story of how we ended up on the ship.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448656537264-DCM9ZNDSX72YO1XO6QX6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Setting Sail for the Antarctic The Akademik Sergey Vavilov is 385 feet long, far smaller than an ocean liner but designed specifically for polar expeditions and rough waters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448658337504-OLPSURGBYK31HO0230F5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Setting Sail for the Antarctic Our delightful fifth-deck cabin on the six-level ship offered us two beds, a desk, ample storage space, a combination bathroom-shower and a view off the starboard side that would soon include petrels, gulls, terns, albatrosses, whales, dolphins, seals, stunning mountain landscapes and startlingly mountainous waves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448658629587-6I9MI1CUCMTM07L4DIN7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Setting Sail for the Antarctic Pamelia tried on the waterproof gear provided by the expedition team: hooded jacket, overalls and tall rubber Wellington boots. We rented heavy-duty waterproof backpacks to carry our cameras and extra pieces of warm clothing. We would end up scrubbing and disinfecting our gear—"bio-securing" it, to use expedition leader Boris Wise's term—before and after every visit to shore, to avoid spreading microbes or invasive animal or plant species to delicate island environments. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448722474813-FPY1WZE3GJFGK8XGMQ0R/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Setting Sail for the Antarctic Our first destination, about 500 miles and 36 hours of sailing away, was the Falkland Islands, which we would explore for two days in three separate Zodiac landings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448725316567-UIDRUFA5L6FCY5DY7LS5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Setting Sail for the Antarctic When we met Mark Carwardine in 2011, he had finished writing and filming (with Stephen Fry) a 20-years-later sequel to the original Last Chance to See. That green book is a tattered copy of the original, which we brought along on our Antarctic voyage. The top inset shows the hardcover sequel and one of the Max-the-rhinos we had an artist create after we read and watched that equally important sequel. (Click on the video interview below to see Max the rhino and learn more about Douglas Adams and Last Chance to See.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448714830048-HHD3DK5ACSQ4MLK0ODI1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Setting Sail for the Antarctic Our dramatic welcome to the Southern Ocean... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448734285214-M621PJIM3N9DJ9T76YVL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Setting Sail for the Antarctic ...and some of the rockhoppers who were waiting for us. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/gateway-to-the-bottom-of-the-planet monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448555249624-2JZ2GNMJIF1IPWTQTZAC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Road to Antarctica: First Stop, Argentina While beachcombing along the Beagle Channel we saw numerous dolphin gulls, which are found only in southern Argentina and Chile, the Falkland Islands and islands close to Antarctica. We loved their red-orange legs and bills. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448310607228-TASLDL0EFAD6MAOH3435/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Road to Antarctica: First Stop, Argentina Winds in Ushuaia's city square whipped the Argentinian flag, whose blue-and-white motif reflected the snow-and-iceberg color palette that would soon surround us in the Antarctic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448637764207-K8U3U6YKJKC02BD912IC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Road to Antarctica: First Stop, Argentina We had already traveled from the top of the Americas to the bottom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448378843989-JRPE1ZSYIMBCZH1VK3FC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Road to Antarctica: First Stop, Argentina The Martial Mountains (at the southern tip of the Andes) and the Martial Glacier frame the fast-growing city of Ushuaia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448555448836-3MZCY7KGKDH4U93BINW1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Road to Antarctica: First Stop, Argentina The End of the World is also a global crossroads. I would have added SOUTH POLE 2,440 miles and THE NATURALIST'S NOTEBOOK 7,000 miles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448635173816-R5UCTHE8TOIJKLHB5J5T/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Road to Antarctica: First Stop, Argentina Pamelia created a spectrum collage from her photographs of Ushuaia's colorful buildings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448562581780-XEB7JOMR7I3YB4X2UPZC/ushuaiapenguinshop.jpeg Blog - The Road to Antarctica: First Stop, Argentina Local shops eschew mannequins in favor of penguin-equins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448555650180-V0OU0J9KVR4P2WP5KJTM/flyingsteamerducks.jpg Blog - The Road to Antarctica: First Stop, Argentina Pairs of beautiful flying steamer ducks dotted Ushuaia's harbor. The name "steamer duck" derives from the birds' habit of flapping their wings (suggesting a paddle steamer) when trying to swim fast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448555002370-ODZ0JOANX71EKVP9O5LU/pameliawind.jpg Blog - The Road to Antarctica: First Stop, Argentina As Pamelia noted, our Ushuaia walks were good training for the Antarctic landings ahead. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448563179660-PP6F05ZMYCFDMOMNNF7H/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Road to Antarctica: First Stop, Argentina Never—not even at home in crazy New England—have we experienced weather that changes as rapidly and dramatically as that of the Antarctic and Tierra del Fuego. Throughout our trip we would routinely experience all four seasons in the span of a few hours. Here's Ushuaia's harbor when the conditions shifted, at least temporarily, from winter to spring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448558622820-KTMOU9ZVEBEUEGFDGP6B/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Road to Antarctica: First Stop, Argentina Rufous-collared sparrows filled the air with their spring songs as we hiked toward the Beagle Channel. These ground-feeding seed-eaters are found from Mexico to Tierra del Fuego, though with different vocal dialects in different regions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448569784979-KY6HTZUIXWX2BW96092Z/kelpgeeseushuaia.jpeg Blog - The Road to Antarctica: First Stop, Argentina We always saw kelp geese (named for their favorite food) in pairs. The strikingly patterned dark one is the female, the white one the male. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448559072392-BBO2W4AJ16WCL8YFKHD6/southernlapwing2.jpeg Blog - The Road to Antarctica: First Stop, Argentina Gorgeous southern lapwings were trying to breed in fields at the edge of the city... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448559271387-3O3PXCKNQYDUIIB0D5SA/dogchaselapwing1.jpeg Blog - The Road to Antarctica: First Stop, Argentina ...but stray dogs kept chasing them, even at a designated urban bird nesting reserve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448573123301-KAHHLK5YFOJSMY6NZTS3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Road to Antarctica: First Stop, Argentina Note the no-dogs-allowed symbol on the sign by the bird reserve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448569360864-XDRUL9JL7SQVYRTJOTHA/australnegritoushuaia.jpeg Blog - The Road to Antarctica: First Stop, Argentina We saw many of these austral negritos, small tyrant flycatchers that didn't like to stand still for us take their photos. This one was a male. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448559379025-FBBPW3W5WED8LI7T27LT/yellowbridledfinch.jpeg Blog - The Road to Antarctica: First Stop, Argentina Another species unique to southern South America and surrounding islands, the striking yellow-bridled finch (of which we saw several pairs, including this male and its much more drab-looking female mate) has scarcely been studied and its habits are still largely unknown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448561779079-T764C3AAWCHLLMICDYU4/darkbelliedcinclodes1.jpeg Blog - The Road to Antarctica: First Stop, Argentina Along the Beagle Channel we started seeing yet another bird exclusive to lower South America, the dark-bellied cinclodes, known for its breeding ritual of wing-flapping and trilling. This one was traveling solo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448565837583-DQ8VGOETVK3ZSYPSW2A8/southerncaracara3.jpeg Blog - The Road to Antarctica: First Stop, Argentina A southern crested caracara soared above us, searching for prey, majestic with its four-foot wingspan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448566169597-U95XHI3EZY6MYGXDBJI2/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Road to Antarctica: First Stop, Argentina The southern crested caracara is even more striking up close. (This is a public-domain photo from Wikipedia, not one of ours.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448559891446-2GOFW5VZ52VJ2YES5GPX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Road to Antarctica: First Stop, Argentina Mussel beds have been vanishing from bays around us in Maine, but the Beagle Channel had them in abundance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448565605434-PZVC4RKY5LGVPIOCX95Y/beaglechannelshells.jpeg Blog - The Road to Antarctica: First Stop, Argentina The channel's shells were a feast of color. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448560155839-FHKDQXX72FQDESGV2D6E/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Road to Antarctica: First Stop, Argentina The strangest sight in Ushuaia was the Galeria Tematica (Thematic Gallery), a museum of Tierra del Fuego history filled with walk-in dioramas featuring indigenous peoples, famous explorers (including Charles Darwin and Ernest Shackleton) and the prison for hardened criminals that was once Ushuaia's claim to fame. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448570308271-6GQ2RLKZMJB48VE07A1O/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Road to Antarctica: First Stop, Argentina At the museum I joined some of Shackleton's crew in dragging a lifeboat from their famously ice-locked ship, the Endurance, whose story we would revisit in the days ahead. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448560975746-XWYQD5CGBSGYHYB0GPOC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Road to Antarctica: First Stop, Argentina The white ship in the background was the Akademic Sergey Vavilov, our home for the next three weeks. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/a-thanksgiving-wish monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448542962615-08YUQ208G9OHXY92SYIJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Thanksgiving Wish Pamelia took this photo of a king penguin chick and adult at South Georgia in the Antarctic. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/how-the-two-of-us-ended-up-in-antarctica monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448194329812-IEREX6LO5NB0HZHMI5RK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How the Two of Us Ended Up On an Adventure In Antarctica No, these seemingly headless king penguins aren't the two of US, but they're among the many unforgettable sights that we would see in our voyage to the deep, deep, deep South. (Feel free to invent a funny caption.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448197673487-QWF7GHWHL3AAQM1INAVU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How the Two of Us Ended Up On an Adventure In Antarctica South Georgia would be one of the most dazzlingly beautiful spots we would visit, though every destination was stunning and some places were wild in more ways than one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448207051062-TQM71UHMVTHISLPI9YYX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How the Two of Us Ended Up On an Adventure In Antarctica Pamelia and others learned that the best way to get Antarctic wildlife to approach was to sit still and wait. That time of quiet watching brought other rewards, including insights into the animals' behavior and a deep sense of connection to the animals and the place. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/common-mergansers-on-our-maine-bay monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1445684973913-MTVLH7LVL6AXLURG8D2I/mergansersmaine1.jpg Blog - Common Mergansers on Our Maine Bay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1445770014493-QYT1CX96NOV7004CA4PM/mergansersmaine2 Blog - Common Mergansers on Our Maine Bay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1445770075565-4GVFC2NGXC5HAPT5JVG2/mergansersmaine3 Blog - Common Mergansers on Our Maine Bay That's Sargent Mountain in Acadia National Park in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1445770284445-7NZXSEAO02SS5234PB7W/mergansersmaine3 Blog - Common Mergansers on Our Maine Bay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1445770321628-AJLVJOULO06RODCU7WMO/mergansersmaine4 Blog - Common Mergansers on Our Maine Bay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1445770360246-OX9ZVQ6086792SJ1ZTC1/mergansersmaine6 Blog - Common Mergansers on Our Maine Bay https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/pamelas-dahlias monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439339116605-WS96CPK8R04U8G5LIDJ0/11807132_921222307916813_2206292856278145290_o.jpg Blog - Dahlias https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439339117781-VSVMP8TFRJGPQ4LU628A/11872247_921222281250149_7073668779233497837_o.jpg Blog - Dahlias https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439339118606-IENTXTWM89Z5X5ML266Y/11221729_921222237916820_1049447573815045022_o.jpg Blog - Dahlias https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/2015/8/6/a-chickadee-egg-from-bernd-heinrich monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1438862000860-5MBBQKJMJAIZSR3TYR7V/chickadeeeggberndheinrich Blog - What Does a Chickadee Egg Look Like? (A Specimen from Bernd Heinrich) https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/our-northeast-harbor-summer monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/our-first-london-marathon-from-dinosaurs-to-prince-harry monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1443882807059-JOAYKPKVEOKMOHI5SKGC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our First London Marathon: From Dinosaurs to Prince Harry Pamelia and I watched Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge pull away in the final half mile to win in 2:04:42. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1443882869847-52PEA9XR3DCYUFGFL8SO/The+start%2C+near+Greenwich+Park. Blog - Our First London Marathon: From Dinosaurs to Prince Harry The start, near Greenwich Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1443882918257-RFMLFMAAYU4Z485L2UBK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our First London Marathon: From Dinosaurs to Prince Harry Ian Bates, 44, from Crawley, England, ran wearing a T-rex costume that weighed 84 pounds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1443882977144-Q0YY5BXEU6HZ3UB2NF2P/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our First London Marathon: From Dinosaurs to Prince Harry One of the course’s many landmarks was the Tower Bridge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1443883967296-DUGSX62XU70BRLZBW0A1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our First London Marathon: From Dinosaurs to Prince Harry From our vantage point 400 meters from the finish we watched Kenya’s Mary Keitany (left) hold off Tirfi Tsegaye of Ethiopia for second place in the women’s race. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1443884865180-5PPB827K65GTC25A5YUH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our First London Marathon: From Dinosaurs to Prince Harry We could see runners come down Birdcage Walk and turn right into the race’s final stretch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1443884957144-3RHJ97LY0YAABQG60M05/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our First London Marathon: From Dinosaurs to Prince Harry The field included runners dressed as everything from a pink cow… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1443884995572-6ODJU4C5HT0W2EXR29CC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our First London Marathon: From Dinosaurs to Prince Harry …to Captain America… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1443885058898-OAOVP194MO12SIB1ZOU0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our First London Marathon: From Dinosaurs to Prince Harry …to a generous bone-afactor raising money for osteoporosis research… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1443885087897-O3WU6X8WNZCL7XQNIIOD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our First London Marathon: From Dinosaurs to Prince Harry …to the inevitable Elvis… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1443885180789-P0K7V8I3PZV02CRBA2G4/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our First London Marathon: From Dinosaurs to Prince Harry …to—a Naturalist’s Notebook favorite, along with the T-rex—a rainforest plant who spoke of the need to conserve rainforest for future generations, and for the good of the planet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1443885242009-0YU3IUXQVAUMJZIBGVUL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our First London Marathon: From Dinosaurs to Prince Harry Here’s the bride, before getting hitched at the midpoint of her race (to a guy running in a faux tuxedo). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1443885297902-1KO55ET56UJE6LIPFDSU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our First London Marathon: From Dinosaurs to Prince Harry Paula Radcliffe enjoyed her farewell as race at least as much as the crowd did. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1443885345189-RV51HT6ATN7TA3H7V9RB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our First London Marathon: From Dinosaurs to Prince Harry   Paula Radcliffe, her lifetime achievement award, her kids and her Prince. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1443885376985-C3E3G5FRZVNK7JSTLRP2/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our First London Marathon: From Dinosaurs to Prince Harry Pamelia and I took away 26.2-miles of memories and an appreciation for the 38,020 runners and the effort they put in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1443885401025-8TOEF7CP1COKB6KZ1F5L/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our First London Marathon: From Dinosaurs to Prince Harry And that lunch from the Cock ‘n’ Bull’s Dog ‘n’ Bun stand, with Buckingham Palace in the distance and a couple of mysterious visitors in Pamelia’s hands, turned out to be a story in itself. A story for another day. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/our-two-amazing-weeks-with-a-bobcat monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1443886057473-WQJ4BQ2WYNTW67VN00GZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Two Amazing Weeks with a Bobcat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1443886087311-9KJO0FKG5HP884LYAH22/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Two Amazing Weeks with a Bobcat That’s the bobcat in the lower right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1443886143927-SYZN8MJUMNZ4FC6T75HX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Two Amazing Weeks with a Bobcat The bobcat scampered off with the duck he had caught. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1443886194398-Y0TPYWBKE6RDVV3QQJ3A/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Two Amazing Weeks with a Bobcat The bobcat often returned to scout our feeders. That black box is a motion-detecting wildlife camera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1443886245071-BIZ86Z2RDVXAUZ06I4YV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Two Amazing Weeks with a Bobcat The cat often walked by our art studio. He sometimes hid under the picnic table in the distance when hunting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1443886280528-F03IO1BRU32HAAAHJLZJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Two Amazing Weeks with a Bobcat Notice the odd looking left eye. Could the bobcat have been half-blind? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1443886312697-MB4LQW0Y1P91KOEJL7OH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Two Amazing Weeks with a Bobcat At times, apart from its short tail, the bobcat reminded us of an oversized Maine coon cat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1443886337321-XC9IMZBQPUAZBA5FJGKA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Two Amazing Weeks with a Bobcat The bobcat in another of the resting spots along its route. Again, very house-cat-like. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1443886358312-H0LO3ZSA0BNFJDQV9Y8P/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Two Amazing Weeks with a Bobcat Resting just outside the studio doors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1443886382221-IBU0U2RMN7XJ8UJSHC5S/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Two Amazing Weeks with a Bobcat The bobcat was not huge—perhaps 20 to 25 pounds. His paws were substantially larger than those of a house cat, but smaller that those of his cousin the Canada lynx, a threatened species that also can be found in Maine. The lynx has longer legs, less noticeable spotting and hips that are higher than his shoulders. Lynx paws are large enough to help him move through deep snow; bobcats aren’t as well suited to that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1443886406964-98R6H6W6ZTVU8XN56DW2/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Two Amazing Weeks with a Bobcat Here’s a shot from the motion cam. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1443886430986-XPGRMC3TTGZ231NVSR3P/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Two Amazing Weeks with a Bobcat He paused to take in the coastal Maine view. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1443886466010-AWGHJUTH9RBH9YBY3KI3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Two Amazing Weeks with a Bobcat We’ll miss seeing this beautiful cat on the prowl. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/10-things-you-missed-at-the-schoodic-institutes-first-winter-festival monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444170368347-0503KLLO4O5XL18C6PJZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 10 Things You Missed at the Schoodic Institute's First Winter Festival Acadia National Park superintendent Sheridan Steele (front, left) and Schoodic Institute president and CEO Mark Berry (yellow jacket) led the group to our animal-tracking hike on Schoodic’s Alder Trail. Sheridan and the national park provided enthusiastic support to Mark, Mark’s team (including events coordinator Megan Moshier) and other organizers, most notably behind-the-scenes dynamo Mary Laury of Schoodic Arts for All. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444170434737-WQ0ISJ2AL5SQCKOT7RA3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 10 Things You Missed at the Schoodic Institute's First Winter Festival Our happy group of snowshoers clomped along the Alder Trail, where we saw tracks of deer, snowshoe hares, squirrels, possibly a coyote and other animals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444170537456-67RTDF1FWWTUA3EH01K8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 10 Things You Missed at the Schoodic Institute's First Winter Festival A bitter wind didn’t stop Chuck Whitney’s birding group from scouring the coast for eiders, goldeneyes, buffleheads, scoters, cormorants and gulls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444170604385-PT64XFJI40X0E7HTUSQU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 10 Things You Missed at the Schoodic Institute's First Winter Festival The frozen balloons were one of many creative ice forms in Blake Hendrickson’s workshop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444170687280-IY5LF3D1ZL7Z0S43D026/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 10 Things You Missed at the Schoodic Institute's First Winter Festival Artist Sherri Streeter helped create and assemble the ice forms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444170717711-DQV879QDB4GZI0EA7UWZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 10 Things You Missed at the Schoodic Institute's First Winter Festival The installation came together over the span of a couple of days. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444170750072-M4DDGJM14GQ5YWWRMGNA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 10 Things You Missed at the Schoodic Institute's First Winter Festival At night the sculpture lit up and changed color, a snowbank transformed into art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444170813180-WNP5YXVHWT87MX8WGRJX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 10 Things You Missed at the Schoodic Institute's First Winter Festival Lichen and lines of sapsucker holes adorned the Schoodic woods. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444170851504-L4ZWUNQU7V6MMFUS49XF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 10 Things You Missed at the Schoodic Institute's First Winter Festival Snowshoe hare tracks. The front track marks were made by the animal’s snowshoe-like back feet as the hare hopped. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444170891416-CZL8MDVP5W8P0V67L8B1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 10 Things You Missed at the Schoodic Institute's First Winter Festival We debated whether this stick-and-lichen construction could have been a nest, perhaps for one of the many types of warblers found at Schoodic in warmer months. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444170916924-NKWK8PWS6W7QH6IQCLWY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 10 Things You Missed at the Schoodic Institute's First Winter Festival In the foreground you can see the tracks from a river otter that slid down the snow to the water’s edge to feed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444170954307-NENYSMQNFL7JWEQ5B0S5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 10 Things You Missed at the Schoodic Institute's First Winter Festival I loved this tree https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444170977921-UORYPT2HP39FW7MVS9OI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 10 Things You Missed at the Schoodic Institute's First Winter Festival Here’s naturalist Chuck Whitney, whom I mentioned earlier, sharing his outdoor expertise. He was a cornerstone of the festival, not only leading hikes but also giving a winter-birds talk, playing the Irish flute in evening music jams and sleeping each night in the quinzhee snow hut that he and other festival attendees built. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444171004142-XI9HD6HCPWAAYVR21HFN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 10 Things You Missed at the Schoodic Institute's First Winter Festival After Bernd Heinrich held a Moore Auditorium audience rapt with his talk on animals in winter, his fans lined up with books and nature questions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444171044709-U04R37VX94F8D1L7GG8T/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 10 Things You Missed at the Schoodic Institute's First Winter Festival Even the drive Schoodic was a wintry escape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444171075100-INMX03UMXMVFYIN0FELR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 10 Things You Missed at the Schoodic Institute's First Winter Festival The ice floes filled inlets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444171106004-F57WLFWRAYCCBVWX4XQR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 10 Things You Missed at the Schoodic Institute's First Winter Festival This forest trail took me over a wooden bridge well-trodden by snowshoers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444171140408-I80X6M01NU3KC7SLXARW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 10 Things You Missed at the Schoodic Institute's First Winter Festival I popped out of the woods at one spot and saw clammers in the distance taking advantage of the day’s unusually low tide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444171352066-EI5JQV82GFLIZ9DFQ3GG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 10 Things You Missed at the Schoodic Institute's First Winter Festival For my Saturday lunch I went for the hot-out-of-the oven, homemade chicken pot pie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444171608643-7SG7QZL5LO7SBCD796GW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 10 Things You Missed at the Schoodic Institute's First Winter Festival Hungry participants had to check their snowshoes at the dining-hall door. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444172171721-5J3CNDGMFWYWZGITBG3U/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 10 Things You Missed at the Schoodic Institute's First Winter Festival Instructor Alexandra Conover Bennett assembled the ingredients and built the fire https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444172247483-R7ECJ6MKZ18CD4RKD6RG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 10 Things You Missed at the Schoodic Institute's First Winter Festival She demonstrated how to cut wood shavings for the fire with her homemade crooked knife, a type of tool long used by Native Americans. She constructed hers from a crooked piece of yellow birch, a straight razor she found in an antique store and a wrapping of moose hide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444172283314-U5M9694U0DXRGXMCA3W0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 10 Things You Missed at the Schoodic Institute's First Winter Festival The ingredients of bannock bread are simple: flour, baking powder, water, a touch of salt and a bit of oil (optional). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444172319462-JP68WN4213KWPZ15AM0H/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 10 Things You Missed at the Schoodic Institute's First Winter Festival You wrap the dough around a long stick. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444172353117-2ZRHA8Q0CIHI2MMM2875/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 10 Things You Missed at the Schoodic Institute's First Winter Festival Roast until ready. Not a bad way for the chefs to stay warm either. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444172381719-6LT5CFVSUDH82POX1NXW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 10 Things You Missed at the Schoodic Institute's First Winter Festival Tastes great with jam. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444172466095-DIFLQLTJ6W9CLP4CG1YO/wintfestsnowflakes4-504x1024.jpg Blog - 10 Things You Missed at the Schoodic Institute's First Winter Festival Breanna tried to keep it simple for us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444172655644-HFD4AMQSECT5SUQGZNNK/wintfestsnowflakes11-1024x681.jpg Blog - 10 Things You Missed at the Schoodic Institute's First Winter Festival Follow these steps, snip here and there, and you too could be a snowflake maker. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444172710501-RCRF4YUQSMVN0J88XWEU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 10 Things You Missed at the Schoodic Institute's First Winter Festival No, I didn’t make the lobster snowflake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444172745330-8R0FDJGVMXI9D3UI5TVK/wintfestsnowflakes8-1024x591.jpg Blog - 10 Things You Missed at the Schoodic Institute's First Winter Festival I did succeed in making a snowflake featuring birds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444172811225-PFX5MYKWD6ALVSCKEA4I/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 10 Things You Missed at the Schoodic Institute's First Winter Festival Each day Cadillac looked a bit different from Schoodic Point. Sometimes crashing waves sent spray far in the air in the foreground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444172871372-L7CWWEV2K7H44HO1LAW1/wintfestquinzhee2-1024x681.jpg Blog - 10 Things You Missed at the Schoodic Institute's First Winter Festival The quinzhee hut became Chuck’s nighttime home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444172905678-XDASW16Y7JBUP2XKCGQM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 10 Things You Missed at the Schoodic Institute's First Winter Festival The view from inside the quinzhee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444172937613-9QJLFHPAKNWXQ2BJAL1Q/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 10 Things You Missed at the Schoodic Institute's First Winter Festival I took a break in there myself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444172970544-80VQ5VR4YLEU4RY7ETID/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 10 Things You Missed at the Schoodic Institute's First Winter Festival In case you were wondering about that winter tent site set up in Garrett Conover’s workshop, here it is. Look closely and you’ll see a metal chimney coming out the left side. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444173003396-I6WNH7CV16ZL6Z2LC5AJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 10 Things You Missed at the Schoodic Institute's First Winter Festival Now that’s the way to go if you’re camping in a tent in the Maine winter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444173045580-E27MDYPUAW4I1XTDWTDT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 10 Things You Missed at the Schoodic Institute's First Winter Festival On the subject of lodging, here’s a look at the Schoodic Institute’s historic Rockefeller Hall, where some of the attendees stayed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444173077062-4LUH6NKY218D6JW0W0UF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 10 Things You Missed at the Schoodic Institute's First Winter Festival I overnighted in another option on campus, a condominium apartment. It’s a rare privilege to sleep within the boundaries of a national park and Schoodic Institute enables visitors to do that at almost any point in the year (space permitting). The nearby village of Winter Harbor has B&Bs as another alternative. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444173130734-5BIJKS0G51ZLPDW0WYNP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 10 Things You Missed at the Schoodic Institute's First Winter Festival Here’s our animal-tracking group again. Notice how many are smiling. Enough said. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/do-baboons-keep-dogs-as-pets monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444174454985-5LQAMMLBN73E78CJ28ZN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Do Baboons Keep Dogs as Pets? In a screen shot taken from Naturalist’s Notebook contributor Luke Seitz’s remarkable video of his bird-research trip to Ethiopia (see the video and more still shots from it below), one of the baboons initially reaches down to grab the puppy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444174580153-97FB5V2196PZCQAHTUTS/baboondog2-1024x681.jpg Blog - Do Baboons Keep Dogs as Pets? The baboon snatches up the puppy and starts to carry him or her across a rocky slope. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444174637199-ZACZKBF42E5RPW3D3577/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Do Baboons Keep Dogs as Pets? The dog does not seem to resist the baboon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444174851950-0QE5C1LO367FJMJC23J2/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Do Baboons Keep Dogs as Pets? …and another shot in the series… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444174887487-MSIFFULUA0O8ET2H9LFV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Do Baboons Keep Dogs as Pets? …and one last image before the tape ends. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/why-is-maine-loosing-its-seabirds monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444175263224-JJO232LR6B23I6OBKP4Q/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Why Is Maine Losing Its Seabirds? Arctic terns are declining so rapidly that Linda fears they may vanish from the Gulf of Maine within a decade. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444175298920-SLS5HASDQXCC2GFIPVFY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Why Is Maine Losing Its Seabirds? Linda is a wildlife biologist for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444175337718-XVDSL5OA9GXLAFKQJO7L/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Why Is Maine Losing Its Seabirds? The Gulf of Maine. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/our-full-day-by-day-schedule-of-summer-workshops-and-events monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160158576-Z9V6BU4VAYM62F9O3HPP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Full Day-by-Day Schedule of Summer Workshops and Events We host workshops for children and adults, many of them on our Drawing Room deck in Seal Harbor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160158760-BY44TZJ2FNQPE6Y7F9KY/dinaencausticworkshop.jpg Blog - Our Full Day-by-Day Schedule of Summer Workshops and Events One of the encaustic workshops taught last summer by Dina (second from left). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160161175-9F3JXAFK6VGMT4F2V6DV/margaretkrugworkshop.jpg Blog - Our Full Day-by-Day Schedule of Summer Workshops and Events Here's Margaret leading one of her past workshops at the Notebook in Seal Harbor. She is not only a teacher but also a superb artist, art historian and writer (in books and for American Artist magazine). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160158992-S6W0F9TP6O9E2AMIYSBB/IMG_7970.jpg Blog - Our Full Day-by-Day Schedule of Summer Workshops and Events Katie gave Pamelia and me a tour of the Jet Propulsion Lab in March. That's where the Mars Rover project is based. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160159161-1INFXIKUTX5NP6WF0WN9/alexfilippenkopamelia1.jpg Blog - Our Full Day-by-Day Schedule of Summer Workshops and Events Pamelia with Alex in our Big Bang Room when he visited last September for his keynote speech at the Acadia Night Sky Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160159421-WM7ZF3Q4PWOBJYO7O9OQ/berndpameliacraig.jpg Blog - Our Full Day-by-Day Schedule of Summer Workshops and Events Pamelia and I with Bernd at his cabin in western Maine last year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160161061-M74G1TPTM3D3AV310O7Y/berndshowbookcover.jpg Blog - Our Full Day-by-Day Schedule of Summer Workshops and Events At his Notebook talk and signing last summer, Bernd gave us a peek at the cover of his latest book, which didn't come out until April 2014. You never know what scoops you'll get if you come to the Notebook! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160163758-34PCOL8MSK58XC97T6NO/deepthingsoutofdarkness.jpeg Blog - Our Full Day-by-Day Schedule of Summer Workshops and Events deepthingsoutofdarkness https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160159652-CL4DVQYDHAG35L11AECQ/beiingarockefeller.jpeg Blog - Our Full Day-by-Day Schedule of Summer Workshops and Events Eileen, a Seal Harborite, will read from her new book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160158690-QG1W5TR4TQN0OY7MR9T3/honeytastingkids2013.jpg Blog - Our Full Day-by-Day Schedule of Summer Workshops and Events Taste two honeys per day and vote for your favorite—the winner moves on to the next round of the tournament! Can Maine Wild Raspberry defend its 2013 title? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160159831-U12JQ5EZF1ICV1G4LLKW/bears.jpg Blog - Our Full Day-by-Day Schedule of Summer Workshops and Events Jordan is both a gifted artist and a serious naturalist and biologist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160159965-ZRGLD72I2H0YQEIBTG99/IMG_4432.jpg Blog - Our Full Day-by-Day Schedule of Summer Workshops and Events Shannara (right, with fellow Notebooke Gem Lawrence) ran our color-themed 13.8-billion-year art workshops at the Northeast Harbor Notebook Annex last summer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160161266-XLNYAVJ4YX1VQBANZM8K/amypainthallway.jpg Blog - Our Full Day-by-Day Schedule of Summer Workshops and Events Amy, an artist and horticulturalist, has been painting an Acadia National Park carriage road scene in the Notebook in Seal Harbor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160162468-2IXILNSLZIEMH676EEW3/botanicaldrawing.jpg Blog - Our Full Day-by-Day Schedule of Summer Workshops and Events Pamelia and I and animation genius Dan McCoy of Pixar took part in one of Amy's botanical drawing workshops last summer. Her class is for all ages! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160160690-DXOV638M5S3ZQNMOAS4M/IMG_3470.jpg Blog - Our Full Day-by-Day Schedule of Summer Workshops and Events Katie with me in March at the JPL's Mars Yard, which is used to test Mars Rovers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160162169-3ASH7L2LU9LH3U1598HI/IMG_4140.jpg Blog - Our Full Day-by-Day Schedule of Summer Workshops and Events Jordan has been painting the walls and ceiling of our Forest and Tidal Room in Seal Harbor with a scene that extends from Mount Katahdin to the rocky coast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160160861-MD75BPLOIAPQNNHPTCW5/IMG_0538.jpg Blog - Our Full Day-by-Day Schedule of Summer Workshops and Events Robin has been curating our Ocean Room in Seal Harbor. She has been painting the floor and walls and building ocean-themed installations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160161379-3ODCESHMQN89BHBC8CLN/needlefeltingworkshop1.jpg Blog - Our Full Day-by-Day Schedule of Summer Workshops and Events Robin led needle-felting workshops last summer at which children created ocean animals to help us build a healthy coral reef. She'll do that again as part of her workshop series. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160160970-01X4QB3U1V2L14UX47GC/marbleizing-eliza.jpg Blog - Our Full Day-by-Day Schedule of Summer Workshops and Events Eliza, who helped us create a downtown Northeast Harbor birding walk last summer, also helped out at a marbleizing workshop in Seal Harbor. Stay tuned—we may be holding another of those with teacher Shira Singer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160161692-O8QOOMSII0VA6D3PEKOS/IMG_8926.jpg Blog - Our Full Day-by-Day Schedule of Summer Workshops and Events In fact, here's Shira Singer leading a marbleizing workshop last summer. We created planets! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160162368-CUY1U4NIQ848BTWX9AF0/eggrockgullcount.jpg Blog - Our Full Day-by-Day Schedule of Summer Workshops and Events Jordan is a natural explorer herself. Here's a shot of her from a few years ago doing a gull count on Egg Rock. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160162570-C4I355DAOAB0J9ZCUXQ4/Alex-Filippenko-informal.jpg Blog - Our Full Day-by-Day Schedule of Summer Workshops and Events Alex Filippenko https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160162983-E35YQ13RP2S0P8BDNP59/Bernd-Paints.jpg Blog - Our Full Day-by-Day Schedule of Summer Workshops and Events Bernd Heinrich illustrates all his books. The Notebook currently has a show of 14 paintings that will appear in his next book, on birds, which is due out in 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160163187-VHL3SU5NDF4K9587UU6P/berndpamelia.jpg Blog - Our Full Day-by-Day Schedule of Summer Workshops and Events Bernd with Pamelia on the deck of the Notebook in Seal Harbor last summer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160163655-ZH09FCHFN5VC5TQSZ040/johnanderson.jpeg Blog - Our Full Day-by-Day Schedule of Summer Workshops and Events John Anderson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160163574-CPDKDILU8029TBN5GVE0/dinahelalschoodic.jpg Blog - Our Full Day-by-Day Schedule of Summer Workshops and Events Dina Helal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160159470-SCSCJIJHNRGLMVHALG42/eileenrockefeller.jpg Blog - Our Full Day-by-Day Schedule of Summer Workshops and Events Eileen Rockefeller https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/the-forest-where-3-billion-birds-go-each-spring monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160156267-ZQNM4BA35E57LXO1T6EW/palmwarblerjeffnadler.jpg Blog - The Forest Where 3 Billion Birds Go Each Spring Palm warblers are one of the species that rely on the boreal forest. (photo courtesy of Jeff Nadler) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160156677-P3G4TJN9ZKZ09C1UO2G9/blackpollwarblerjeffnadler.jpg Blog - The Forest Where 3 Billion Birds Go Each Spring The blackpoll warbler is another boreal regular. Eighty-two percent breed there. (photo courtesy of Jeff Nadler) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160158169-ZA41Q4CKBDX9UDNTXP3G/borealbirds.png Blog - The Forest Where 3 Billion Birds Go Each Spring A boreal forest landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160156466-IW7GCQ73CKBK4U9969RO/borealmigration.jpg Blog - The Forest Where 3 Billion Birds Go Each Spring This map shows the routes taken by birds leaving the boreal forest in late summer and fall. According to Jeff’s report, between 3 billion and 5 billion birds migrate south after young have hatched. About a billion of them winter in the U.S.; others fly as far as Tierra del Fuego, at the southern tip of South America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160156864-67S6GX587BTQIASKDP8V/oscarlake-ducksunlimitedcanada.jpg Blog - The Forest Where 3 Billion Birds Go Each Spring Oscar Lake is surrounded by boreal forest in Canada's Northwest territories. (photo courtesy of Ducks Unlimited Canada) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160156968-K4NFOVY8IIFX67PHQKZU/grosbeak.jpg Blog - The Forest Where 3 Billion Birds Go Each Spring Two of the birds under threat are the Canada warbler and the evening grosbeak. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160157068-F3E2N4WX29ILKA629YYX/sbdowitcherjeffnadler.jpg Blog - The Forest Where 3 Billion Birds Go Each Spring Another boreal-dependent species, the short-billed dowitcher. (photo courtesy of Jeff Nadler) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160157265-VBNVWWJI95FKK2BYABAG/hudsoniangodwitslenblumin.jpg Blog - The Forest Where 3 Billion Birds Go Each Spring And yet another, the Hudsonian godwit. (photo courtesy of Len Blumin) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160157377-OD5MZJHVP1S7ZLBTJCCA/JeffWellsCraigNeff1.jpg Blog - The Forest Where 3 Billion Birds Go Each Spring That's Jeff (left) on a visit to the Notebook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160157574-O1W0I4IO9S01TFZIMS5H/JeffWellsbirdinggroup1.jpg Blog - The Forest Where 3 Billion Birds Go Each Spring Here is a portion of the birding group on the Notebook deck holding up Jeff's book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160158055-V5UIEF4VMZ0Z42CSEQBJ/croweggs1.jpg Blog - The Forest Where 3 Billion Birds Go Each Spring A bonus treat for those of you who don't see The Naturalist's Notebook page on Facebook: A photo of crow's eggs taken recently by the great naturalist and writer Bernd Heinrich near his cabin in western Maine. Yes, Bernd climbed to the top of a tree to get the shot. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/big-waves-and-big-ideas monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160155074-4QFETIQPYDBPW6UXDKV0/schoodicwave.jpg Blog - Big Waves and Big Ideas The surf at Schoodic was some of the wildest Pamelia and I have seen in this area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160155367-10C9MUS3EBM8R7CSFV28/symposiumrickbonney.jpg Blog - Big Waves and Big Ideas The Cornell Lab's Rick Bonney, and yes, the title of his talk was Citizen Science Is Just Like Bartending. You'll have to watch it on lifestream.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160155564-PJK17M4W4Z80547RBOZB/symposiumjanedisney.jpg Blog - Big Waves and Big Ideas Jane Disney was one of many researchers who discussed their projects with the help of large posters between lectures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160155767-6WKSHM5KUVSQWXQQZKB0/schoodicwaves2.jpg Blog - Big Waves and Big Ideas More of those wild waves! https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/13-8-billion-cheers-to-a-notebook-friend-who-just-helped-explain-the-universe monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160152336-IH1P29NZPSLBIK63VT0U/BrianKeatingCraigNeffPameliaMarkwood.jpg Blog - 13.8 Billion Cheers to a Notebook Friend Who Just Helped Explain the Universe Brian (center) met with Pamelia and me in his office at the University of California at San Diego. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160153979-B45UL6O6DDOESZLVHSCW/brian-keating.jpg Blog - 13.8 Billion Cheers to a Notebook Friend Who Just Helped Explain the Universe brian keating https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160152969-Q2VEFWWEDMM30YSHM6BR/keatingantarctic.jpg Blog - 13.8 Billion Cheers to a Notebook Friend Who Just Helped Explain the Universe As Brian's slide explains, Antarctica is the best spot on Earth for detecting Cosmic Microwave Background emissions from space. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160153564-VK7O4U0RB6HYBNA9EJFR/keatingbiceptelescope.jpg Blog - 13.8 Billion Cheers to a Notebook Friend Who Just Helped Explain the Universe This is the BICEP array in Antarctica. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160153157-04ER0L4J801WATPWLYME/keatingbicep.jpg Blog - 13.8 Billion Cheers to a Notebook Friend Who Just Helped Explain the Universe The BICEP project flexed its scientific muscle with this week's announcement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160153885-P5T556KDZK02YI4VLWMC/keatingeinstein.jpg Blog - 13.8 Billion Cheers to a Notebook Friend Who Just Helped Explain the Universe In detecting gravitational waves from the Big Bang, Brian and the BICEP team also proved an almost century-old prediction by Albert Einstein. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160152567-GAW0C8RDSECTF3DF7938/BrianKeatingposter.jpg Blog - 13.8 Billion Cheers to a Notebook Friend Who Just Helped Explain the Universe If you had walked upstairs at The Naturalist's Notebook last year, you would have seen our Brian Keating display in the Big Bang Room. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/day-21-in-russia monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160151760-JG83I86830GQGSQ6JDQY/sadbear.jpg Blog - Day 21 in Russia The polar bear mascot was sad after Russia lost to Finland in hockey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160151969-OXUYQKAA5JLGTEIRA4OT/mountains1.jpg Blog - Day 21 in Russia Ignore the foreground; looking out at that beautiful backdrop for the last three weeks has been a treat. I've tried to burn the image of the Caucasus Mountains into my mind, since I don't know if or when I'll get to see them again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160152067-WQ98JY3NUK3CSICHY1FJ/dogsblacksea.jpg Blog - Day 21 in Russia I tried my best to gain access to the Black Sea, but all I found were fences—and dogs who obviously were smarter than I. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160151875-ELIUGX379SXJHIUSTOLD/pyeonchangbutton.jpg Blog - Day 21 in Russia The next Winter Games will be in Pyeongchang, South Korea, in 2018. I sat at the Opening Ceremony with a member of the Pyeongchang organizing committee, who was here observing what did—and did not—work at the Sochi Games. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160152169-CIY0KZPCSP5688CIXBHA/pintomjerry.jpg Blog - Day 21 in Russia My final Olympic pin of the Games: The Russian cartoon equivalent of Tom and Jerry. Someone translated the words on the pin as, Oh, wait... https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/day-18-in-russia-and-quite-an-owl-sighting monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160148176-BTVWE5GDEZFXROKBCA75/owl1.jpeg Blog - Day 18 in Russia (and Quite an Owl Sighting) Bernd saw the owl perched outside his window. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160148271-GTGHCQUCPK1EMVDJHVOU/owl2.jpeg Blog - Day 18 in Russia (and Quite an Owl Sighting) He noticed the owl looking down at the snow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160149173-ESWFAS6F0FAF5M2JKEJM/owl3.jpg Blog - Day 18 in Russia (and Quite an Owl Sighting) The owl suddenly flew down—and came up with a vole. There had been no tracks in the snow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160149674-XOOVF3VJ7ARZ599CGMB6/bernds-owl.jpg Blog - Day 18 in Russia (and Quite an Owl Sighting) Here's the owl back in the tree where Bernd first saw him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160149265-QZI2OVNV82NWCBSSP8DT/bird2.jpg Blog - Day 18 in Russia (and Quite an Owl Sighting) I saw a few of these in Olympic Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160149369-Z2DF58NHSXNXEMHJV26B/Sochi-TV.jpg Blog - Day 18 in Russia (and Quite an Owl Sighting) One of the rules of the Olympics is that only broadcasters who pay for the rights are allowed to shoot video/TV in the venues. That leaves other TV crews searching for places that LOOK like the Olympics but are located elsewhere. I feel as though every time I walk somewhere in the Main Press Center (including this patio area in the back), I pass a TV reporter doing a standup: ("And I can't BELIEVE that I don't even have to wear a jacket here at the WINTER Olympics…"). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160150677-BONVTY49BNN1UVTB9PME/dedmoroz.jpg Blog - Day 18 in Russia (and Quite an Owl Sighting) Remember the photo of the blue, gingerbread-house-like Ded Moroz Residence in the last post? Today there was no line so I went inside and saw Ded Moroz—pronounced, rather morbidly, "dead morose"—the Russian equivalent of Santa Claus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160148066-JBC30KSVP8NR5AMMYISP/fooddinner.jpg Blog - Day 18 in Russia (and Quite an Owl Sighting) Let's eat! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160147965-5ZRBVX0VORJM2V92PUD4/foodbook.jpg Blog - Day 18 in Russia (and Quite an Owl Sighting) The cafeteria suggestion book sounds like a Milan Kundera novel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160141661-PFF10P9UKNQCSK8R38TM/foodsmallrusks.jpg Blog - Day 18 in Russia (and Quite an Owl Sighting) We have an unusual vending machine outside our office at the Main Press Center. It offers everything from croissants to Viennese waffles. Or…small rusks, anyone? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160149470-KLX0PMFFAE2EFOEUS67Z/foodpotato1.jpg Blog - Day 18 in Russia (and Quite an Owl Sighting) Lest anyone think I was making fun of the baked-potato vending stands in Olympic Park in my last post, this was my lunch yesterday in the cafeteria. The potato topping of the day was chopped-up smoked salmon. Not bad at all. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160141770-KK5D5G4DDO2NEUOMWRGG/foodcheetos.jpg Blog - Day 18 in Russia (and Quite an Owl Sighting) Some of our staff members are getting desperate. One photographer's food intake for a day at the mountain venues consisted of Twix bars and peanut M & Ms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160149757-83LDJ67H40O6EJP2S36U/foodcrepes.jpg Blog - Day 18 in Russia (and Quite an Owl Sighting) Pancakes, crepes, blinis…whatever variation you like, there are plenty available, including at stands like this in Olympic Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160149969-MGJYOUTHS9Y8IM637LWQ/pintraders.jpg Blog - Day 18 in Russia (and Quite an Owl Sighting) I visited some Russian pin traders in the park. There is a pin-trading area outside the Coca-Cola (sponsor) pavilion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160150057-MKG720O6ZHHR06960GFE/parkpins.jpg Blog - Day 18 in Russia (and Quite an Owl Sighting) Here are some pins—medallions, really—from the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics. I have some like this at home that I picked up on a 1986 Sports Illustrated writing assignment in Moscow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160150370-42E3B8ZH63M0BPGRHXWP/superstoreline.jpg Blog - Day 18 in Russia (and Quite an Owl Sighting) The most popular spot in Olympic Park is the Superstore, which sells souvenirs. The wait to get in is typically at least an hour. You can cut to the front if you have a child with you, so one man has been renting his child out to shoppers who don't want to wait in line. My colleague saw the kid go in with different people at least five times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160151260-DRJLLR340TWHOIPMVQY4/freehugs.jpg Blog - Day 18 in Russia (and Quite an Owl Sighting) How can anyone not like Olympics at which volunteers are giving out free hugs? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160151456-TCOGV51PXZXVB91KWMSB/torchcloseup.jpg Blog - Day 18 in Russia (and Quite an Owl Sighting) With just five days left in the Games, the torch burns on. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/day-15-in-russia monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160147669-VA013CONN18GWCRGLI2C/dogMPC.jpg Blog - Day 15 in Russia I'm finding stray dog friends all the time now. This happy guy was ready to join us inside the Main Press Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160145872-DLEOQJPXD5X4Y0VK86F9/parkstilts.jpg Blog - Day 15 in Russia Olympic Park has become a festival of ethnic culture, music and dance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160147574-57AEFPXPEV0QT3F380AR/parkdedmorozresidence.jpg Blog - Day 15 in Russia The so-called Ded Moroz Residence in the park celebrates the Slavic version of Santa Claus, a jolly, white-beared, red-suited figure who gives out presents on New Year's. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160145467-Q4KNZC0F1B33MC6INEFT/circassiandance1.jpg Blog - Day 15 in Russia I walked in on a performance by a group of Circassian dancers called The Legend of the Caucasus. Etremely long sleeves seemed crucial to the choreography. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160145968-F37A6110R2M53M6MYAQ8/parkarctictribes.jpg Blog - Day 15 in Russia These native peoples from the Arctic were playing mouth harps near a display of their teepees and animal furs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160146067-4S5QPA2IFLILBGPOZKCQ/parkfur.jpg Blog - Day 15 in Russia What can I say. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160146196-6QF6G3XZBWPUOS0REIV2/parkrussianflagman.jpg Blog - Day 15 in Russia This is Russian Flag Man. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160146370-G4QT6EO6M2JQQX78L5XR/park3Dfaces.jpg Blog - Day 15 in Russia This may be the coolest attraction in Olympic Park. Fans have their faces 3-D scanned, then watch the faces appear in actual 3-D on a big screen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160147166-0HV6WU3F1KTKLT0PI4K1/parkface1.jpg Blog - Day 15 in Russia Here's the, um, head-on view. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160147449-31Q7NQ3MO4LDOAY6HRKH/parkdancers.jpg Blog - Day 15 in Russia Everywhere you walk, there's a different group of dancers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160147777-N6O5RB1VR0HC74TICJ6H/foodpotato.jpg Blog - Day 15 in Russia One of the baked-potato stands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160145671-Y8MCE4AFQ9FASVG3OMN6/lightmodifier.jpg Blog - Day 15 in Russia Necessity is the mother of Olympic invention. When some of our photographers failed to bring light modifiers to soften the illumination from strobes, our crew fashioned homemade ones using duct tape, plastic grocery bags and empty bottles from the office water coolers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160145767-TJKDM0JZ8DN96ITXWVCP/photoremote.jpg Blog - Day 15 in Russia We've used remote-controlled cameras at sports events for years, but here we've moved to a new level—we can aim and shoot pictures at distant venues from our office in the Main Press Center. Some of the photos at a future Olympics could be shot by a staff member back in New York using this type of hookup. On the laptop above you can see the camera view of the speedskating venue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160145561-SGMYX0EKMEQSXPZCLUAM/foodcookie.jpg Blog - Day 15 in Russia Churchill famously called Russia a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. This confection was an unidentifiable riddle of a jam wrapped in dry cake inside pink frosting. But pretty good. I do like cookies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160147865-0V64DZ9EHAJVLICB5DXV/parkwastesegregation.jpg Blog - Day 15 in Russia One last shot from Olympic Park. I love the translation. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/day-13-in-russia monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160141863-W23HBWOBWHF7B2IVR4GW/kgbpin.jpg Blog - Day 13 in Russia I now have a new favorite Sochi Olympic pin. Needless to say, it is not an official pin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160143468-14PQW0A1AK22GGSHHTYB/slopevenue.jpg Blog - Day 13 in Russia Hello, Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, set in the Caucasus Mountains near Sochi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160143559-7N3KU0PX6LAJCE3Y47U4/slopevenue1.jpg Blog - Day 13 in Russia I was standing on the packed-snow corral at the bottom of the slope style course, with the stands and TV booths behind me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160143665-59JG2VDR9WFNZTTC1ZJQ/slopeaction.jpg Blog - Day 13 in Russia We watched the first half of each run on the scoreboard, then caught sight of the skiers for their last two big jumps. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160143773-TDZ9YLCRT494QK4SXYGW/slopemascots.jpg Blog - Day 13 in Russia The mascots posed with anyone who asked. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160143874-6CYDBBON1W91RCS73TV0/craigatslopestyle.jpg Blog - Day 13 in Russia Someone (not a mascot) offered to take my picture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160144368-QQN3V0BVZWNXV13ADKPU/slopedrive.jpg Blog - Day 13 in Russia The bus ride took us up a mountain river valley that often looked like the site of strip mining—nothing but crushed rock and gravel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160143964-2L14K2RFLCVT3T1P3OWF/slopesecuritytape.jpg Blog - Day 13 in Russia The doors and windows of press busses I rode were sealed with tape by security officers each time we departed. The seal was broken when we arrived at the next destination. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160144067-GEW8BH4U7BZ9MEADJDAA/sheepinsochi.jpg Blog - Day 13 in Russia We passed some stray sheep partway up the mountain. Until you reach the ski areas, that's how much of the landscape looks— barren, rocky and snowless. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160144270-V5909Z99LXNMZNHQRKU2/slopeolyvillage.jpg Blog - Day 13 in Russia This is an Olympic Village for athletes competing in mountain sports. If you look closely you'll see flags and banners that athletes have draped from their balconies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160141466-M11QJ2MLOMXHUGXQKJ15/curlingusa.jpg Blog - Day 13 in Russia I arrived just in time to see the U.S. men's curlers taking on Denmark. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160142168-RYVCIYFMZA4SI4RQ3Q40/curlingaction.jpg Blog - Day 13 in Russia The U.S. player on the left is Jeff Isaacson, a middle-school scence teacher from Virginia, Minn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160141958-X1VIMYMDTHLPNULD7DJ3/curlingshoes.jpg Blog - Day 13 in Russia There are little starting blocks from which the curlers push off when sliding the stone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160142065-7XA4AWDDL82EI1UEEBEG/curlingshoes1.jpg Blog - Day 13 in Russia The push-off shoe has a gripping sole; the sole of the other, sliding shoe is either Teflon or a banana peel—I couldn't tell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160142262-UMDWZ74VAYT92R51606W/curlingnorway.jpg Blog - Day 13 in Russia Any of you remember the late golfer Payne Stewart and the way he dressed? His spirit is alive and well on the Norwegian curling team. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160142368-L84AAYUY3A1HLLKBJ1MS/japantrain.jpg Blog - Day 13 in Russia As I walked past the Adler speed skating arena I watched a Japanese woman athlete practice speedskating starts while tethered to her coach by an elastic strap. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160142463-T66YGDLV135Y1LOB36P3/restaurantwindmill.jpg Blog - Day 13 in Russia There's no snow at 65-degree Olympic Park, so the quirky-looking restaurant behind my hotel made snowmen with sticks. Dutch snowmen, apparently. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160145173-7N4GXDLIVW8PUQR3AKAV/collindevin.jpg Blog - Day 13 in Russia We've continued to draw athletes to our Main Press Center office for video interviews. That's ski slopestyle silver medalist Devin Logan on the left. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/day-10-in-russia monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160137866-9SHV3KG9GA09D5V9FG7L/dog1.jpg Blog - Day 10 in Russia I first saw my new canine friend wandering in the middle of the road in Olympic Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160137971-Z1HE7MW6ABF4IXXJG2L0/dog2.jpg Blog - Day 10 in Russia He was cute. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160139470-8RAQ53EYJD9B9AIUOAIX/dogs3.jpg Blog - Day 10 in Russia He found buddies to play with. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160139571-E2QTQGOKUHNEXJPXCTAK/dogs4.jpg Blog - Day 10 in Russia He and a friend wandered off. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160140072-I9BA7OOG9OKWP7RP645Z/rockyhat.jpg Blog - Day 10 in Russia I can't resist throwing in a photo of Rocky, back in Maine. He was modeling a double-helix hat knitted for me by the Notebook's multitalented Shannara Gillman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160139665-KEIJU96XMQG4AMV06DEA/sagekotsenburgatSI.jpg Blog - Day 10 in Russia Sage arriving at our office. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160139765-3LCD4XY9W4LZ48QCU4UA/sagegoldmedal.jpg Blog - Day 10 in Russia Sage's gold medal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160140169-E2XAXDMAWIEA8WOR2GKR/adlerarena.jpg Blog - Day 10 in Russia Here's a look inside Adler arena, the site of long-track speedskating. The track is 400 meter long and it's hard to convey on television how fast the skaters go. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160139965-U8M2JG6ZSK9KOGSQA06A/speedskateshhhhh.jpg Blog - Day 10 in Russia At the speed skating arena, a silent video goes up on the scoreboard telling the crowd to shhhhh for the start of a race. Very effective, no words needed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160139864-C182YFP7ONBL9K350SPQ/irenewust.jpg Blog - Day 10 in Russia Some of you saw this on The Naturalist's Notebook's Facebook page. I had a feeling that 3,000-meter speedskating winner Irene Wust of the Netherlands was going to do something jubilant as she stepped onto the winner's podium, so I clicked the shutter…and got lucky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160140263-9NQ8RTIA7FNB7BDWZKIV/adleroompahband.jpg Blog - Day 10 in Russia An oompah band with costumed Rockette-like dancers entertained the crowd while the ice was being resurfaced between rounds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160140363-DM7XAQSB2UFFDTINTAKK/putinluge.jpg Blog - Day 10 in Russia One last shot: Another Putin pin, this one showing him as a luger. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/day-7-in-russia monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160133670-JKHKG3FVH5M29TTBLWDN/ceremonyhammer.jpg Blog - Day 7 in Russia I was sitting close to the field near a corner of Fisht Stadium. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160133780-AX6AMYWMK2G2P20XXXPC/ceremonyinflatables.jpg Blog - Day 7 in Russia We got a close-up look at the inflatables, among other elements of the show. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160137565-CLARCHQIMLLJXGI0O8LC/georgiasokhumi.jpg Blog - Day 7 in Russia This apparent anti-Russia protester from the former Soviet republic of Georgia kept holding up a placard bearing the name of the capital of the disputed region of Abkhazia, which Georgia claims but Russia controls. No one stopped this man from waving his sign. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160133863-3X1BIIIHOZI00T27VXTY/ceremonymascots.jpg Blog - Day 7 in Russia The anamatronic mascots looked great in person; hope that came through on TV. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160134163-WVFFBIEZ8WIKY9F3ZNNG/putinsochi.jpg Blog - Day 7 in Russia Here's how close we were to Putin (center of photo). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160137065-FYT1OBKEO8N1Z86NVYB6/putin.jpg Blog - Day 7 in Russia Here's Vladimir with IOC president Thomas Bach on the left. We interviewed Bach before the Games and I like him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160134364-EJGXC816QYG07MEAV3GI/ceremonyconstellations1.jpg Blog - Day 7 in Russia The hockey-playing constellations—former Minnesota North Stars?—were, I felt, a Naturalist's Notebook-y touch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160134671-5KH0D61CCVGRIZ75OFIZ/ceremonysnow.jpg Blog - Day 7 in Russia At several points in the ceremony, the fake snow was falling pretty hard. It seemed to be made of soap or something. The weather inside the stadium was quite cold, so the snow seemed real. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160134763-NOPHFSYS93AJQE381C5H/ceremonyolyrings.jpg Blog - Day 7 in Russia Russian TV may have doctored its broadcast so that viewers would think all five Olympic rings opened, but this was the reality: only four, with what looked like an asterisk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160134865-CZZ5HAGMWE71F7NYVF51/ceremonyspindance.jpg Blog - Day 7 in Russia These whirligig costumes were simple but brilliant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160137464-K8PUGTEA9KXHE1743PIT/ceremonyticket.jpg Blog - Day 7 in Russia This is what my press ticket looked like. Only a limited number of journalists from each media outlet were given tickets to attend. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160135368-TAL3333QEBXHDLKNR7ZP/ceremonylight.jpg Blog - Day 7 in Russia Everyone in the stadium had to wear one of these lights, which flashed different colors at different moments. Each bears the words Participant 2014 Olympics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160136670-W6IC67XDCVSVOMG3BKEX/ceremonyblacksea.jpg Blog - Day 7 in Russia I took this shot before the ceremony to show how close the stadium is to the Black Sea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160137762-NZH4KRHLU2LDHFW05I42/leakyceiling.jpg Blog - Day 7 in Russia True to the half-built spirit of these Games, the Main Press Center sprung a leak right above the desk of Frank, our techie. He put up a makeshift roof. Meanwhile, one of our writers was trapped in his fifth-floor hotel room for several hours yesterday morning when the door handle pulled off from the inside and no one was at the front desk to come up and let him out. Perhaps you've seen the photo of the Olympic Village bathroom door a U.S. athlete kicked his way through in order to escape in a similar situation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160137664-7DVYB0C3IBC0SL5UFKPP/teatime.jpg Blog - Day 7 in Russia Back at the Main Press Center, costumed local women have been serving black tea that's grown in Sochi on the world's northernmost tea plantation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160137760-8Z8TFBV0PK34FU3LD26X/pinkazak.jpg Blog - Day 7 in Russia A few minutes ago I scored a rare Kazakhstan pin. Given the news that the country's autocratic leader is considering dropping the stan from the end of his nation's name because he's tired of his land getting confused with other, in his view, inferior countries that end in stan, this pin could become a collector's item. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/day-4-in-russia monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160131568-0IJ73PSFDQAXSY8Y9J9W/putinpin.jpg Blog - Day 4 in Russia My favorite pin of the Olympics so far: Vladimir Putin as a hockey player. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160126865-G84C2UWWA902O1MBISUU/blacksea.jpg Blog - Day 4 in Russia From a media shuttle I caught sight of the Black Sea and one of the Russian Navy ships defending the Games. I would love to dip a toe in the sea, but several rows of security fences make it inaccessible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160131667-B8A9I05C2MK00E6WLZ5V/mpchall.jpg Blog - Day 4 in Russia One of the grand skylit halls in the Main Press Center. The vast building will be turned into a shopping mall after the Games is done. I get plenty of walking in just going to press conferences, trekking to the cafeteria and doing other daily wanderings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160133469-0NR5KN8LER1SSUZT995W/PojeandWeaver.jpg Blog - Day 4 in Russia As you walk around the press center you sometimes see athletes being interviewed by TV crews. This pair is Canadian ice dancers Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160127559-A1HTIKB1FAZI7YJXDJXY/lololauryn.jpg Blog - Day 4 in Russia In the days before they compete, teams come to the main press center to talk to reporters. There's usually a group press conference, then a rush of reporters to talk to the individual athletes afterwards. Above are women's bobsledders Lauryn Williams and Lolo Jones, both of whom have also competed in track and field at the Summer Olympics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160127270-K1W4M30AUWZKTKQCR4HI/icecubebanners.jpg Blog - Day 4 in Russia Banners outside an arena known as the Ice Cube. Four-person teams of curlers will slide those polished tk-pound Scottish stones down the rink inside and madly sweep the ice with their brooms to speed, slow and steer the granite disks toward the scoring circles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160129871-CFCGS3G00HPUD80T6PUB/sunflowers.jpg Blog - Day 4 in Russia There's a sunflower theme in the press center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160129561-15BH57E7105ABTAAA47W/mcdonalds.jpg Blog - Day 4 in Russia Can you figure out what this is? Welcome to McRussia! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160131758-6ZKU7Z88BPM19ZFQO9BB/sochibathroomsign.jpg Blog - Day 4 in Russia Signs in Sochi can sometimes be amusing; at least this one is easy to understand. An athlete Tweeted this out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160129761-ZYU2F7KNRK44PF16J7R9/rubles.jpg Blog - Day 4 in Russia It dawned on me that you may not know what rubles look like. That 1000-ruble note is worth about $tk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160130267-YDWK70RGQQ2OO8NXERT9/mascots.jpg Blog - Day 4 in Russia Meet the mascots—and a few other stuffed toys who wandered into the shot like the stray dogs that have been getting so much international attention this week. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160130505-WJFD9837Y882AWJ1H4XB/SIoffice.jpg Blog - Day 4 in Russia The Sports Illustrated office in the MPC. Frank the technical whiz is sitting in my seat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160131166-Q664ECEZNUFMYBSBP1SY/watch.jpg Blog - Day 4 in Russia My nephew and his wife gave me a red-white-and-blue watch to wear in Sochi, made by a snowboard apparel company that happens to go by my last name. Wherever I go in Russia, it's always Neff time. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/day-1-in-russia monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160123982-3M5LC86NJRYAQNI6P54Z/hotelpalmvenue.jpg Blog - Day 1 in Russia Yes, these are the first Winter Olympics with palm trees. Here's a view from outside the Main Press Center looking toward Olympic Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160126267-SXN3SXMNBO561V75CQPB/sochiairport.jpg Blog - Day 1 in Russia At the Sochi airport, TV crews greeted arriving athletes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160126463-HKC1EQ76I40B0UM6SO0N/mountains.jpg Blog - Day 1 in Russia A glimpse of the Caucasus Mountains from the press center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160123863-P3E5YRQNS2B9FNYFMMIC/hotcoolyourssochi.jpg Blog - Day 1 in Russia That's the Sochi slogan: Hot. Cool. Yours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160125461-SHLOY1D7TZXGDBBHMKF4/namerushinsmall.jpg Blog - Day 1 in Russia My name in Russian, on my Sochi credential. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160126770-FL7RAB66VJFTVZGI8VEW/sochicheckin.jpg Blog - Day 1 in Russia Accreditation check-in at the airport. Those are volunteers, wearing the fruit salad uniforms that are in evidence everywhere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160126363-UX33K4768KJESKHF7T5K/mpcpink.jpg Blog - Day 1 in Russia The Main Press Center, where I'll be spending much of my time working for the next three weeks. The color changes constantly, but it's pretty in pink. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160126656-76O77T5JEUDRN4O7O9BL/mars.jpeg Blog - Day 1 in Russia Bruno-less Mars https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/pictures-of-the-year monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444780129221-JQD6TLTYJV6N0N36205Y/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Pictures of the Year Black-capped chickadee chicks, photographed in western Maine by naturalist and Notebook friend Bernd Heinrich last spring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444780294599-IZOUWKNBMJF0XS5W8E0X/chickadees1.jpg Blog - Pictures of the Year A later view of the chickadee chicks, also photographed by Bernd. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160114701-UWKG4QICZPOSFOWGL2HF/grosbeaks.jpeg Blog - Pictures of the Year Evening grosbeaks in morning, January. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160119185-N4C34J74K1LOFVAX8SSX/juvenilegoshawk1.jpeg Blog - Pictures of the Year A juvenile goshawk on our deck, January. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160113681-I35YIUAIROEDLG32Y2QA/elephantseals.jpeg Blog - Pictures of the Year On a winter trip to California to meet with Notebook collaborators, we stopped at the elephant-seal rookery near Hearst Castle in San Simeon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160116003-OTXKSWENFBOYWN1A728R/pandas.jpeg Blog - Pictures of the Year Pandas at the San Diego Zoo, January. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160119481-MJU834CPKPBFQ5OOH2BS/bonobos.jpeg Blog - Pictures of the Year Bonobos at the San Diego Zoo. Bonobos, which were once known as pygmy chimps, are humans' closest relatives along with chimpanzees—but we have pushed them toward extinction by destroying their habitat and hunting them as bushmeat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160113766-PEKOOT9O352A1A9WPIIR/flamingos.jpeg Blog - Pictures of the Year Flamingos at the San Diego Zoo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160119763-X4HA15F9XWTOEONLSFNQ/monarchs.jpeg Blog - Pictures of the Year While in California we also stopped in Pismo Beach to see untold thousands of wintering monarchs, which had flown in from across the Western U.S. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160114600-W7COKYA4NY6OKT4K8W8P/frog-egg2.jpg Blog - Pictures of the Year Frog eggs in a vernal pool near our house, April. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160117170-T8BMK0OSIKV6713EGOS5/turkeyfight9.jpg Blog - Pictures of the Year Wild-turkey fight, April. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160113481-7MEJAUQ1DEFBHPWMMJ0E/boston-seaglass.jpg Blog - Pictures of the Year In a remarkable coincidence, Pamelia and I found this piece of sea glass while walking along the shore near our house on the afternoon of the Boston Marathon bombing. We didn't realize the bombing had happened until we got home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444780475622-LQA9O1BNAO2EM6C5GET8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Pictures of the Year Ruffed grouse nestlings photographed by Bernd Heinrich. Notice how the shells are, in Bernd's words, almost surgically cut in two from the inside using the egg tooth on the tip of the baby's bill. How remarkable is that? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160122576-TESAE5G1MKPFNS0ASQAH/pasqueflower.jpg Blog - Pictures of the Year Pasque flower, central Maine, April. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160120463-A374P3AELWQBFVBFB6P7/goat.jpg Blog - Pictures of the Year Goat (I don't know the name), photographed in Maine by Notebook team member Claire Longcope. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160118467-2QIP5I2XGOIM9VY2ZBJG/pearblossoms.jpg Blog - Pictures of the Year pearblossoms https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160120366-KGH41P6B0E83BV46Y9VZ/amyturtles1.jpg Blog - Pictures of the Year Painted turtles, photographed in Maine in May by Notebook team member Amy Gagnon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160115009-9NSGYSD3TJZ3MEXEN832/marcelineandpals.jpg Blog - Pictures of the Year Marceline the pygmy goat and two friends at the Sweet Pea Farm in Bar Harbor, June. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444780735281-UEK4QTEDHNNPPK1LCXM8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Pictures of the Year These phoebe chicks hatched in an eave by Notebook friend Leanne Nickon's art studio. Leanne didn't want to disturb the birds so she couldn't get into her studio for several days. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160117483-YHNGK6SKMZLP2DUMB55W/vernalunderwater.jpg Blog - Pictures of the Year Underwater view of vernal pool, early June. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160116871-LFH3S3VCPGCQ5V7AXLGP/sanddollarssealharbor.jpg Blog - Pictures of the Year Sand dollars at extreme low tide in Seal Harbor in June. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444780814679-LJEKIXEVWNA7Y74M5XVX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Pictures of the Year Two black bears visited our house in in June and made short work of our bird seed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160121075-VKVQUM7CERYMNNPJU9TQ/Yellow-Warbler-Nest-2.jpg Blog - Pictures of the Year Yellow warbler nest photographed in Vermont in June by Notebook friend LJ. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160118373-XWZKY8ZWISL5H44QWBJC/yellowwarbler.jpg Blog - Pictures of the Year Yellow warbler, August. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160121166-LP6UFPQEAZYQ85YHLCTV/robinnestlings.jpg Blog - Pictures of the Year American robin nestlings and egg, also shot by LJ in June. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160116774-CL3G8OVCA5HNCO5CPU5S/rosymaplemoth1.jpg Blog - Pictures of the Year Rosy maple moth on a telephone pole outside The Naturalist's Notebook in July. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160122969-W3LRG7N2098D9RL52MTS/goldenrodcrabspider.jpg Blog - Pictures of the Year Goldenrod crab spider, outside The Naturalist's Notebook in Seal Harbor, July. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444780885965-N54IS7M35LO0QUY7KCA9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Pictures of the Year A little pollination action in late July in the garden in front of the Bar Harbor Notebook location we opened on Aug. 1. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160116580-VGFCKCP2CWU4SE3SDRPV/rainbowcraig.jpg Blog - Pictures of the Year We enjoyed a full, double rainbow one afternoon in July. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160113925-194O8P02STIZSXE3D8TJ/flyingantswarm1.jpg Blog - Pictures of the Year Flying ant swarm on Cadillac Mountain in August. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160113586-SC4PET4JY444VBX2TDPT/danlaluna.jpg Blog - Pictures of the Year Dan McCoy of Pixar, who gave a Notebook talk on the making of the Oscar-nominated animated short La Luna, sized up La Luna while looking out from our Maine shoreline. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160122854-2K75US55B380LENDBBOB/phantomcranefly.jpg Blog - Pictures of the Year Phantom crane fly, photographed by Notebook friend Lindsey Bell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160115168-NG99Y22HG831JSNH2RR8/milkweedbugs.jpg Blog - Pictures of the Year Milkweed bug larvae, October. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444780966159-37AXLP4QDE816W1EBMYJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Pictures of the Year After his wife, Gem, a Notebook team member, saw this juvenile Eastern red-spotted newt scurry into the underbrush on Maine's Mount Desert Island, Vincent Lawrence of Acadia Photographic Workshops searched for the elusive amphibian and finally found him. Vincent always gets the shot. I highly recommend signing up for a workshop or a day session with him if you're going to be visiting Acadia National Park in 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444781048250-QGWJ6B143HO7VUH9K0QS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Pictures of the Year Our friend Vincent of Acadia Images Photography Workshops took this shot in Seal Harbor the other day. The cute creepy-crawly is an elm sawfly larva—and if you want to know how to tell a larva from a caterpillar, keep reading. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160116265-5B1R64LORJ8H137NZQWB/porcupineonbranch.jpg Blog - Pictures of the Year Porcupine hanging out in a spruce tree at our house, September. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444781163240-J20QO9T4E6AEBHMZYQX0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Pictures of the Year That’s Rocky, checking out the Maine coast from our 500-million-year-old Ellsworth schist—some of the oldest rock found in our area—on a September morning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444781224399-01K7IVR3C4GLWI946BDI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Pictures of the Year Another Vincent Lawrence shot, of starfish in the waters off Mount Desert Island. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444781293942-D895V2L8X4HQ5J1RN4O1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Pictures of the Year A white tussock moth caterpillar, Maine, August. This gorgeous type of caterpillar transforms into a camouflaged tan and brown moth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160114943-VUAB82GBFKX1H5M623ME/insectleafcormier.jpg Blog - Pictures of the Year Insect larva, photographed by James Cormier, October. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444781364815-0C3CTXE1JNBLYFUTNWSD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Pictures of the Year Ice on our bay, November. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160122062-G1LRT4IJNYISM9T04CEK/Redtail-Squirrel-2.jpg Blog - Pictures of the Year A red-tailed hawk and its next meal, photographed by South Carolina naturalist and Notebook friend Bruce Lampright, December. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160122158-3ETJZKYR818LIPD99ZZH/birdofparadise.jpeg Blog - Pictures of the Year And finally, because it brings back memories of a place much warmer than Maine is at the moment (sub-zero), a bird-of-paradise flower, San Diego, last January. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160122666-CPIWUD3HZ6J0CUAXGM7W/paththroughfield.jpg Blog - Pictures of the Year And finally, because each year offers a new path and new promise, my favorite field scene, shot last August, with Sargent Mountain in the background. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/our-holiday-hours-and-the-road-to-2014-2 monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160080164-6GT097KIA18WEQUM8Y43/luraycaverns.jpg Blog - Our Holiday Hours and the Road to 2014 We made an unplanned stop at the Luray Caverns in western Virginia. This mirror-like pool in the caverns was but one of many stunning sights. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160083573-T16VK7PLAK269XDL9U2U/milkweedstructure1.jpg Blog - Our Holiday Hours and the Road to 2014 While on a hike in Virginia we paused to study the beautiful inner structure of a milkweed pod. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160080779-O89G8MS26S2EVV4OIDK1/milkweedbugs1.jpg Blog - Our Holiday Hours and the Road to 2014 During a hike in Virginia we saw a lot of milkweed and found these lovely insects crawling over some of it. These are milkweed bug nymphs, one of the few insects that can tolerate eating the plant. The bugs' bright coloration warms potential predators that the bugs are bad-tasting or even poisonous because of the milkweed they eat. Those little yellow guys are aphids. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160082361-DNHNY6VC4TSI02M9407U/marbledpaper1.jpg Blog - Our Holiday Hours and the Road to 2014 At one of the Notebook's summer workshops, we marbleized paper and fabric under the tutelage of artist Shira Singer. Here we're floating paint on the surface of thickened water. We then set a large circle of paper on top of the paint, removed the paper and rinsed it in the first step toward creating the planet Jupiter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160082576-EK6XP33GMK2NJ7GEMDE1/jupitertablefoursome1.jpg Blog - Our Holiday Hours and the Road to 2014 Later on, at our house, special guests Dan McCoy of Pixar, Dina Helal of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Margaret Krug of Parsons the New School worked with Pamelia to the Jupiter painting. It will become one of our planet tables in the 2014 Notebook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160082662-4W0OUXUYDWGP56YN72W3/honeytastingkids20131.jpg Blog - Our Holiday Hours and the Road to 2014 Our annual Sweet 16 honey tasting tournament crowned its first two-time champion, Maine Wild Raspberry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160082853-VVRLI2YPZW9EL18EF12O/needlefelting11.jpg Blog - Our Holiday Hours and the Road to 2014 Jellyfish, anyone? Notebook visitors made needle-felted ocean life for our coral reef. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160082955-7SZ72QSOE8FCBT00TIX6/pianospectrum1.jpg Blog - Our Holiday Hours and the Road to 2014 Pianists young and old tested out our electromagnetic spectrum keyboard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160084170-B9SRDDEQM0VQXL9Z461L/alexfilippenkopamelia1.jpg Blog - Our Holiday Hours and the Road to 2014 We had the pleasure of spending a day in September with world renowned astrophysicist Alex Filippenko, Cal Berkeley's nine-time educator of the year. He was in Maine to deliver the keynote address at the Acadia Night Sky Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160084262-NGI18FZ4D8F8GDXVMY4Q/alexfilippenkorocco1.jpg Blog - Our Holiday Hours and the Road to 2014 While in our Moon room, Alex checked out an out-of-this-world piece by New York artist Rocco Alberico, another of our collaborators. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160083273-KU59DVOQB94JXVX4WOYC/pameliamarkwoodmilesblencowe1.jpg Blog - Our Holiday Hours and the Road to 2014 On an October trip to Hanover, N.H., Pamelia discussed our 13.8-Billion-Year Hue-Story of the Universe project with Dartmouth physicist Miles Blencowe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160083364-NA1ZKRDA8SZRHSDQ7321/thomasbachinterview1.jpg Blog - Our Holiday Hours and the Road to 2014 During a stop in New York, I met the new president of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach, when he sat for an interview with one of my SI Olympic colleagues, Brian Cazeneuve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160080211-3ZET6T3PVJ2V6P8N3ZGF/presidentportraits.jpg Blog - Our Holiday Hours and the Road to 2014 Here's an art-and-politics quiz for you: Which three U.S. presidents are these? The portraits hang at The Homestead in Hot Springs, a retreat that 22 sitting presidents have visited. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160081370-BWIZZCXUJDAEY61JGTIU/sassafrasleavesvirginia1.jpg Blog - Our Holiday Hours and the Road to 2014 sassafrasleavesvirginia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1439160083875-IWLQ07W61UGHAF6MVVU7/virginiabigleaf1.jpg Blog - Our Holiday Hours and the Road to 2014 What plant does this come from? https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/the-notebook-expands-to-northeast-harbor monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444783003257-11DGZNSL0JLWTJBOZVLJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook Expands to Northeast Harbor As of Monday, July 15, the new Naturalist's Notebook Annex will be open every day from 10 to 5. Many thanks to John Clark (shown) and Leanne Nickon for their help with our sign. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444783099512-XBLU77IKWZDYAJJR3DCR/neharborsign.jpg Blog - The Notebook Expands to Northeast Harbor This week we put this in the front window of the Northeast Harbor Annex, ending a few months of mystery among townspeople as to what would be moving into the small building at 115 Main Street. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444783197798-SQNZGQSNFZTXQF3BL3ZV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook Expands to Northeast Harbor This is the before photo, taken at the new location in late winter. You'll see the after photos soon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444783384791-NAEEG485UESDEH2KRHMP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook Expands to Northeast Harbor Young artists have been drawing birds, seals and even Martians at the original Naturalist's Notebook at 16 Main St. in Seal Harbor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444783428137-C2NNWHRQCDOSDN32O16W/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook Expands to Northeast Harbor Millie, our milkable cow, had to undergo an udder-ectomy last week because of a leak, so we called in Maine's best udder-ectomy-ologists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444783461291-FBH9XB1X9RMIZASQPBKB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook Expands to Northeast Harbor The surgery was successful. Kids are glad to have Millie back. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444783494553-OE3AMCYO7D7EPZMG5942/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook Expands to Northeast Harbor Artist and educator Dorie Petrochko has installed her vernal pool diorama-in-the-round in the forest room. It is still a work in progress but is already looking great. Dorie has been working with us, preparator Michael Anderson of the Yale Peabody Museum, 86-year-old Ruth Morrill (who helped create the famous dioramas at the Peabody Museum and the Museum of Natural History in New York along with her husband, Ralph, and painter James Perry Wilson), naturalist Bernd Heinrich (the diorama shows a vernal pool near his cabin in western Maine) and others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444783796134-1UNKIYGQSYLFONUNZM9I/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook Expands to Northeast Harbor Meet Rocky. You'll likely see him if you visit The Naturalist's Notebook in Seal Harbor this season. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/the-notebook-journey monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444784740958-IBTKGRZ1ZGU060IHU8P5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook Journey We took a break from Naturalist's Notebook preparations to enjoy the nearby Asticou Azalea Garden, which was peaceful and picture perfect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444784858884-5XSRU38Q70D5UCG7QYXE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook Journey The Asticou is one of four stunning gardens within a few miles of The Naturalist's Notebook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444784898575-W2IUAWK0UPNV90LOGBGK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook Journey In our upstairs rooms we've been piecing together the puzzle of the universe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444784933848-PUP6VFDJJ6TMXYP3DTGI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook Journey We'll be taking visitors through a unique indoor exploration of part of Acadia National Park, complete with faux flora. Here Notebook friend Peggy Knox (left) and biologist Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie—a Pd.D. student studying the effects of climate change on plants in Acadia—join me in checking out ferns. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444784966248-YXGJZHZVL42NRWIFJGXW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook Journey Our unsung heroes, Gem and Vincent Lawrence, have been making waves (and lots more) at The Naturalist's Notebook all winter and spring. They have done painstaking, precise work with an unfailing sense of happiness, selflessness and serenity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444785003336-L7P494BFHQIQ3YIM58BE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook Journey Pamelia had some photo fun as I—or perhaps I should say Mini-Me—was putting up dark matter in one of the space rooms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444785052666-1I85EBI89BQNNIXNP0CR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook Journey Pamelia and I took time to drive to Redding, Conn., for the Joel Barlow High School Palooza, a big student event at which a team led by Anthea Taeuber (far left) presented The Naturalist's Notebook's 24-color-coded, interactive 13.8-Billion-Year Hue-Story of Our Life timeline. The team also included (from left) Melanie Ambler, Nick, Zoe and Bailey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444785087174-BNZPM4S664BZXZNTMAQL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook Journey Each of the 24 wooden stations on the 13.8-billion-year timeline had an activity linked to its time period. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444785116127-L5OLJ8H13HZW2AJT95A9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook Journey Back at the Notebook, our Alaskan friend Cassidy checked out the staircase on which he'll help us create a walk-through guide to archaeology and paleontology. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444785213918-0ZSA5KNPR7IM9LOCDGHW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook Journey Artist collaborator Leanne Nickon helped us test out some colors to enhance the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444785247846-EMW6YDP7QIWGRT3HZGY7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook Journey While Amy Gagnon continued applying her artistic talents to hallway nature murals, high school senior-to-be David Eacho, our longtime robotics and engineering whiz, made a surprise visit and pondered a project he and fellow student collaborator Melanie Ambler have been developing for our 24-color-coded, 13.8-billion-year staircase. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444785273270-OH4F0G7EJD7A07G3I6PO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook Journey Great young artist, bird expert and Naturalist's Notebook contributor Luke Seitz came by to see us with his wonderful mom, Heidi. Luke, who just finished his first year at Cornell, was on Mount Desert Island to serve as a tour leader for the Acadia Birding festival, which The Naturalist's Notebook helped sponsor. In addition to his schooling, Luke works part-time for the renowned Cornell Lab of Ornithology. He's leaving soon for Peru to take part in an international birding competition as a member of the Cornell lab team. We will once again be displaying and selling some of Luke's work this summer, and he might contribute a blog post soon from Peru. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1444785313284-3M7AAOHFG6MMVQAN6IF9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook Journey One parting shot from the Asticou garden, of peonies at their peak. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/images-from-a-turtle-pond monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447030788436-S1EHXWNRCYMB212HAMHQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Images From a Turtle Pond Amy's photographs are a window into the world of turtles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447031138978-KVEUUJQ1SL14Z3CQPGG1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Images From a Turtle Pond I'd never seen this many turtles sunning on one log. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447031204343-GW26NT25BJHSACC8M9PS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Images From a Turtle Pond The female turtles lay eggs in shallow holes they dig on the water's edge—close enough that there's some water in the bottom of the hole. The temperature in this nest determines the gender of the baby turtles. If the nest is warm, the babies will be females; if it's too cold, the young turtles will be males. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447031266225-416M4ZDWPLHDYTJRWLVW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Images From a Turtle Pond A phoebe took the scene in from a cattail. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447031333179-T9KR2PQJ7LNCJKT5CJON/amyfrog.jpg Blog - Images From a Turtle Pond The frogs were hanging out too. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447031417313-XPO46IC7WLTYFR5NGKAI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Images From a Turtle Pond A black bear visited our house the other evening and chowed down on seed from all of our feeders. He or she also bent a steel pole on which one of our hummingbird feeders hangs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447031529512-MUKTAI1QUZGX1MMPOXBM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Images From a Turtle Pond The traveling, interactive version of our 13.8-billion-year timeline of the universe is about to be installed at Joel Barlow High in Redding, Conn., for the school's big Palooza event. Huge thanks to Connecticut Principal of the Year Tom McMorran and the student team working on the project, led by Anthea Taeuber. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447031655463-ALR0Y0QD75MTRJ07ZCKD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Images From a Turtle Pond For the first time ever Pamelia and I saw a deer visiting The Naturalist's Notebook. He or she was nibbling on a neighbor's garden in the back of the building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447031782938-L0S26MR6H1EAMN4XOQ5U/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Images From a Turtle Pond The sight of our first rose-breasted grosbeak reminds me to remind you that the Acadia Birding Festival (of which The Naturalist's Notebook is a sponsor) runs from May 30 to June 2. It's not too late to check out the schedule and sign up for a walk, talk or workshop! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447031838669-BPNHV07AK9326YLLF4AX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Images From a Turtle Pond NASA just released photos of the erupting Pavlof Volcano in Alaska, taken from the International Space Station. Wow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447031890932-M8O7XWPMAUQVE9N183SW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Images From a Turtle Pond It's a beautiful egg. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/what-is-a-boreal-forest-and-why-is-it-important monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447032090837-5BG9BDJZM8KABZRAT895/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What Is a Boreal Forest and Why Is It Important? A map of North America's boreal forest, prepared by the Boreal Songbird Initiative. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447032294162-W6ZJ3LGW6BDQZEFAR94T/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What Is a Boreal Forest and Why Is It Important? Jeff (left) led a bird walk at The Naturalist's Notebook last summer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447032861480-7M1EBOQUVUQXC57D9LZX/image-asset.png Blog - What Is a Boreal Forest and Why Is It Important? The traditional map of biodiversity hotspots overlooks the boreal forest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447032926297-M033GDF1VY3GSC59TGGG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What Is a Boreal Forest and Why Is It Important? Great Bear Lake, near the Arctic Circle, is the largest lake within Canada. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447032963742-WNRSXO2RFRTZO3JJ0DOT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What Is a Boreal Forest and Why Is It Important? Arctic grayling https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447033009582-EL5KUAPO6KF3V0JRCSCR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What Is a Boreal Forest and Why Is It Important? Palm warbler https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447033045659-YCG3R709BPSOEM5U2N8V/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What Is a Boreal Forest and Why Is It Important? Wolverine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447033083381-03WDOGWCOURPHMDM81VK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What Is a Boreal Forest and Why Is It Important? A singing vole, which gets its name from its high-pitched, trilling warning call. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447033166958-S9T013RNU0CSOBE35XBC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What Is a Boreal Forest and Why Is It Important? Our friend Rachel (left), from Nova Scotia, helped us with Naturalist's Notebook work and joined us on a hike up South Bubble mountain in Acadia National Park. Here she and Pamelia look out at Eagle Lake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447033309077-G5HQA20URJB52F4Y5TQW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What Is a Boreal Forest and Why Is It Important? Back home in coastal Maine, we've been watching this scarred-up red squirrel. We're not sure what he tussled with, but his whole body is striped with gashes that have healed. Red squirrels are feisty and aggressive, but I didn't learn until recently that they often eat small birds and bird eggs. I hope that by giving our squirrels plenty of sunflower seeds, we're diminishing their appetite for our avian friends. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447033397424-D4V62XGQ2XF64BCCQJDT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What Is a Boreal Forest and Why Is It Important? Preparations for The Naturalist's Notebook season—which opens on June 24—are gearing up. Here new Notebook team member (and gifted artist) Amy Gagnon works on an Acadia-related mural. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447033436641-Y2TPIKP8WX1IEGHGW5DC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What Is a Boreal Forest and Why Is It Important? This raccoon tried hiding, totally still, about 20 feet up a tree when he saw us leaving our house. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/the-best-snowy-owl-story-ever monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447382182307-H4CHL4GDB0D7K57F97IJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Best Snowy Owl Story Ever Snowy owl https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447382255681-H6V6IVJRKZJT2NM8G41C/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Best Snowy Owl Story Ever snowyowl https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/escaping-on-a-maine-trail monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447382436964-QB82QK2K1JH93QH6EVGE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Escaping on a Maine Trail The short trail connects Upper Hadlock Pond (one of the prettiest spots on Mount Desert Island) with Lower Hadlock Pond. It connects to other trails that can extend a hike considerably. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447382494466-BHW5YNH05TFFJK2HL10Y/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Escaping on a Maine Trail The trail has been improved in parts with a split-log path, which keeps hikers' dry in boggier sections. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447382546553-D9NIN9IQXCUPA39YAG6N/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Escaping on a Maine Trail The log trail snakes its way over wet ground and toward a stream that connects the two ponds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447382589647-9DK1TFJFOEIYZTUMCZGX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Escaping on a Maine Trail The weather was brisk and windy, and no insects bothered us even though we were near a stream and forest pools, which are breeding grounds. Pamelia's rule of thumb is that the black flies in Down East Maine are worst from Mother's Day to Father's Day. They seem to be a little late this year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447382651752-4L5MX8NYCW4YEBR0RFFV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Escaping on a Maine Trail A calm section of the connecting stream. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447382697017-WSMMI7TORXN0MGYBG4C0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Escaping on a Maine Trail Sometimes the log trail narrows and takes you over water. Kids (like us) get a thrill from this sort of crossing. But it's easy and the water is shallow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447382741536-GIWM75VJVH98ENTMOP2E/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Escaping on a Maine Trail Climbing over granite slabs and chunks is a quintessential part of hiking in and around Acadia National Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447382784208-T0CARK8B3U8TZXV96001/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Escaping on a Maine Trail Another bridge! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447382819312-AJ29J61NYCK98RMK9LGZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Escaping on a Maine Trail This is the spot at which the stream drops significantly and flows into Lower Hadlock Pond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447382861999-76N1Q9WJP7LM0QMGYHC8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Escaping on a Maine Trail This is looking down from the bridge toward Lower Hadlock Pond. The trail heads along the right side of the pond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447383059875-NM1B3O6ZCEC8IL6SF6M0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Escaping on a Maine Trail The edge of Lower Hadlock Pond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447383164392-0ID2K9NC21JGQNOCZX9X/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Escaping on a Maine Trail Hiking back to the car. I told you the trail was a rooted route. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447383210511-HFULWPZO76VDODMF2OL7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Escaping on a Maine Trail Those roots can be beautiful, though. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447383235495-N04HGIMI0BKRMCWU4WXZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Escaping on a Maine Trail Can you tell the lichen from the paint dot marking the trail? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447383257132-66FUMJX107RFWBQA5502/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Escaping on a Maine Trail One more shot of that stream. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447383269799-E8T54NAU3SA0Y2W0S1MM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Escaping on a Maine Trail Almost back to the car. Feeling invigorated and relaxed at the same time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447383282179-U98PWI1Y6QOXU2ZN3ST2/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Escaping on a Maine Trail Back where we started, at Upper Hadlock Pond, which is also a nature-made reservoir providing drinking water to part of MDI's population. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/porcupine-couch-potatoes-and-a-vernal-pool-adventure-with-bernd-heinrich monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447383655461-ZA0FC72DGQ2PLVAO1R2A/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Porcupine Couch Potatoes and a Vernal Pool Adventure with Bernd Heinrich The deserted cabin and its aging sofa are now home to Maine's favorite quill-bearing mammals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447383682599-5OO59MYZLG3AV8G9M5GB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Porcupine Couch Potatoes and a Vernal Pool Adventure with Bernd Heinrich Marcelene easily kept up with the rest of us hikers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447383722002-OK6IXO3V5N6GP0Y8LK8P/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Porcupine Couch Potatoes and a Vernal Pool Adventure with Bernd Heinrich Our group (from left): Pamelia, Bernd, Craig, Dorie Petrochko (artist and head of the Connecticut Guild of Science Illustrators), Renee Duncan (a naturalist and the director of College of the Atlantic's Summer Field Studies Program) and Brett Ciccotelli (naturalist and manager with Renee of the Sweet Pea Farm). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447383737048-3NZM2YVYI09OUA6UP6LT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Porcupine Couch Potatoes and a Vernal Pool Adventure with Bernd Heinrich Bernd was the master frog catcher. This is a wood frog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447383753098-4XQAVDYAYFF4MGPPZTSL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Porcupine Couch Potatoes and a Vernal Pool Adventure with Bernd Heinrich We studied the frog in a big jar for awhile before returning him to the pond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447383765858-YRI0SHXPJW5PV3MUQFWM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Porcupine Couch Potatoes and a Vernal Pool Adventure with Bernd Heinrich You Facebook followers have seen this critter already. It's a dragonfly nymph. Dragonflies live in this stage for most of their lives. The nymphs have extendable jaws with which to grab food such as mosquito eggs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447383791201-CUD90WDW36ZSA630HD29/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Porcupine Couch Potatoes and a Vernal Pool Adventure with Bernd Heinrich Bernd's pool doesn't completely dry out, so these frog eggs have a better chance than some of hatching into tadpoles and producing adult wood frogs. Some pools dry out too fast in certain years if there isn't enough rain or snow melt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447383803294-3ZJRPMJADCGY8NLBA2M3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Porcupine Couch Potatoes and a Vernal Pool Adventure with Bernd Heinrich If you look very closely you'll see mosquito larvae in the water. They're the little black things floating beneath the surface. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447383816234-W9Z9QWAE2HJ3YU0UZ4MS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Porcupine Couch Potatoes and a Vernal Pool Adventure with Bernd Heinrich We guessed that the white egg clusters deeper in the water might be salamander eggs. Any of you salamander experts want to weigh in? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447383839748-IFG80PR5GQADTM6LZE8X/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Porcupine Couch Potatoes and a Vernal Pool Adventure with Bernd Heinrich Brett's poolside sketching gave Marcelene a little something to chew on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447383864863-1CSDMKHG8TYT13LOD8D2/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Porcupine Couch Potatoes and a Vernal Pool Adventure with Bernd Heinrich When the author of Ravens in Winter and The Mind of the Raven shows you a raven's nest on his property, it's a pretty cool moment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447383891271-9BPHK1DKEZNJTE0SZDZC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Porcupine Couch Potatoes and a Vernal Pool Adventure with Bernd Heinrich Brett found what we believe is part of a moose skull. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447383931971-1PA75ATH66PKEAT6TNAT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Porcupine Couch Potatoes and a Vernal Pool Adventure with Bernd Heinrich Marcelene was steady afoot as she watched Bernd cut up a downed white pine that was blocking a roadway into the woods. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447383955055-FJR5Q744DG4LOXA2UBG5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Porcupine Couch Potatoes and a Vernal Pool Adventure with Bernd Heinrich Did Stihl design this chainsaw to match a tree fungus? Or did the fungus evolve this coloration to blend into our modern forest society? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447383983690-00KR0WM2491PDGZL52Z6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Porcupine Couch Potatoes and a Vernal Pool Adventure with Bernd Heinrich Oops. A front blinker on Bernd's truck got broken by a hidden stump. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447384005712-X9J8ZRRBA1MSEVE9L3KX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Porcupine Couch Potatoes and a Vernal Pool Adventure with Bernd Heinrich This is the porcupine couch in all its glory. No porcupines were in the empty cabin when we looked around, but the evidence of their presence was everywhere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447384066115-SZ1JI7H924GIBILANA1S/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Porcupine Couch Potatoes and a Vernal Pool Adventure with Bernd Heinrich The day ended at a bean supper hosted by a friend of Bernd's—and with a 12-week-old rescued chihuahua puppy asleep in my arms. The dog was one of 80 that animal-welfare officers had removed from a trailer home. She had purple stitches across her left eye, which a veterinarian had been forced to remove because of injury. She's got a good life ahead now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447384125174-7GS99YAZ857VAB11RMKO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Porcupine Couch Potatoes and a Vernal Pool Adventure with Bernd Heinrich The Naturalist's Notebook was named Best of New England in the latest issue of Yankee Magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447384173722-V6M5IRK7HUIDP5B2B9CZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Porcupine Couch Potatoes and a Vernal Pool Adventure with Bernd Heinrich The Naturalist's Notebook's timeline kept kids busy at Redding's Earth Day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1447384207247-VF6QGFNXRO0R1U8ALGG8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Porcupine Couch Potatoes and a Vernal Pool Adventure with Bernd Heinrich frogtangle https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/illuminated-frogs-eggs-duck-teeth-and-more-on-that-boston-photo monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448485050191-J2FNRH28BJBDPX1OI1Y6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Illuminated Frogs' Eggs, Duck "Teeth" and More on that Boston Photo When we went to our local frog hangout this week, Pamelia took this gorgeous photo of newly laid eggs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448485091802-3BA7ZWMU93ABMX2JLWJO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Illuminated Frogs' Eggs, Duck "Teeth" and More on that Boston Photo We knew that the eggs were freshly laid because they hadn't been there the day before. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448485139255-5YBT5LTO0JY45OVI4LSB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Illuminated Frogs' Eggs, Duck "Teeth" and More on that Boston Photo This is a close-up from one of the pictures. Note that the eggs have slots on top, as if they're meant to be split into four. The also resemble chocolate morsels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448485176478-94UQSBFC09MPIEAWUQTQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Illuminated Frogs' Eggs, Duck "Teeth" and More on that Boston Photo This is the shot being used in the nature video. The duck had been attacked by a goshawk by our house and had just died. Those aren't teeth; they are lamellae, which are used for filtering food from the water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448485201941-5HU4D5QJY9CS1AVTD3BV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Illuminated Frogs' Eggs, Duck "Teeth" and More on that Boston Photo Buffleheads arrived two days ago. That's a male on the left and a female on the right. They're quite small and dive for crustaceans. They nest in holes in trees—yet another reason why it's animal-friendly to leave old, and even dead, trees standing unless they're a danger. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448485218785-RP0JDXEYXCJH791KIADY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Illuminated Frogs' Eggs, Duck "Teeth" and More on that Boston Photo The first purple finch of the season just showed up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448485234499-B8XUCJQ150853FTDX9BN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Illuminated Frogs' Eggs, Duck "Teeth" and More on that Boston Photo The Boston sea glass photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448485277747-APTDM167ATA48QASHZA8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Illuminated Frogs' Eggs, Duck "Teeth" and More on that Boston Photo Pamelia took my photo in front of the Frank Gehry-designed Stata Building at MIT. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448485298132-QH95554RHGC0AGK1S0PP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Illuminated Frogs' Eggs, Duck "Teeth" and More on that Boston Photo The Sun Room at The Naturalist's Notebook is still evolving, but it keep looks cooler (and hotter)... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448485325690-C06JF2LV6XT8DUGD4Z7T/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Illuminated Frogs' Eggs, Duck "Teeth" and More on that Boston Photo John Muir https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/how-to-become-an-astronaut-or-have-fun-trying monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448485743908-MIJPCIWV51HUPXOJTDP9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Become an Astronaut, Or Have Fun Trying Karen's windowsill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448485784811-4G76TLANCETDPULK8FKF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Become an Astronaut, Or Have Fun Trying We went to the Jessup Library in Bar Harbor to hear Karen talk about how to become an astronaut. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448485825417-RDKXX0AGGQEYE8G12CHW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Become an Astronaut, Or Have Fun Trying Karen's childhood visit to the Enterprise shuttle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448485876881-96IVXVK4THX44TIMKPRZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Become an Astronaut, Or Have Fun Trying The HMS Beagle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448485903425-JMYOEOZTQ0E3TPG5DOTT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Become an Astronaut, Or Have Fun Trying Astronaut Michael Barratt in the International Space Station, 230 miles above Earth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448485935292-NZBX59Z0P4BW9XJHKLMQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Become an Astronaut, Or Have Fun Trying Karen handling Moon rocks at the Johnson Space Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448485972853-5QRWSC2P6GTZ3O97HW94/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Become an Astronaut, Or Have Fun Trying At the Johnson Space Center, Karen took this shot of the world's largest indoor dive facility. It contains a 747-size model of the Space Station that astronauts use to practice space walking. Karen says that walking underwater is the closest approximation to that out-of-this-world experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448485991526-94E6HS36WTJI3XNP4XDA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Become an Astronaut, Or Have Fun Trying The phone hookup from the Space Station to students in Brazil. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448486097878-ID8IMIM6IYQU2J0S79RF/karenjamesphone-250x193.jpg Blog - How to Become an Astronaut, Or Have Fun Trying Karen says her phone rang one day. It displayed these digits. Michael was calling from the Space Station. Later—of course!—Karen tried dialing the number back, damn the cost. Didn't work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448486123813-IUF4E9Y8VFQO6VK8MAFI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Become an Astronaut, Or Have Fun Trying NASA's initial astronaut job application form. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448486145126-J80F2T01GPI9KPF146FK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Become an Astronaut, Or Have Fun Trying Karen covering the Atlantis launch for the Guardian. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448486169524-T9R5W9CVV2WOSWE1UPKB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Become an Astronaut, Or Have Fun Trying For those of you who didn't see it on The Naturalist's Notebook's Facebook page, here's the funny sight that popped up on my computer screen when I was downloading some shots of barnacles. The face-recognition software in iPhoto saw one barnacle as a human face, but couldn't identify whose. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448486195195-E4M1YEUA5TK5YQNZIXUY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Become an Astronaut, Or Have Fun Trying Coming to the Notebook this year: Another way to show you care about endangered rhinos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448486213010-YYWUZ074MM2115OLPD3C/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Become an Astronaut, Or Have Fun Trying Sir Francis Bacon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448486238107-5EC4ZBTLRRJZ8VVTZI4O/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Become an Astronaut, Or Have Fun Trying pineconequiz https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/listen-vernal-pool-wood-frogs monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448486632906-GSB982VP04TLT5O59F4Z/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Listen: Vernal Pool Wood Frogs This and the other frogs spent the winter submerged in mud in a near-freezing state. Their emergence is reason to celebrate—for us as well as them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448486650852-QXD9WS0D7WEWVT1OFQW5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Listen: Vernal Pool Wood Frogs I'm not sure if this guy is going to come to life or not. He seemed covered with sand. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/angry-birds-or-the-battle-to-be-the-alpha-turkey monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448486835395-L9ZP7FBWMMEFGBF5FVJ9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Angry Birds (Or the Battle to be the Alpha Turkey) As many as four male turkeys were involved in the scuffles—sometimes one-on-one, sometimes two-on-one—and the methods of attack included flying at the rival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448486862772-DLSSKIXE6FUE3EDIZ7KY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Angry Birds (Or the Battle to be the Alpha Turkey) One male was especially effective at pulling on his opponent's head and neck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448486888212-S45OGUBFCBNYHYSNBGCH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Angry Birds (Or the Battle to be the Alpha Turkey) The head on the left belongs to the wild turkey on the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448486906172-IZLHZXP8HCHZEIOB6F7A/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Angry Birds (Or the Battle to be the Alpha Turkey) Count the legs: There are two turkeys here, and the head you see belongs to the turkey in back. For a while, one turkey seemed to have his foe in a wrap-around-neck chokehold. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448486971234-AV7PPLIS12PXUEQRD7GD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Angry Birds (Or the Battle to be the Alpha Turkey) Pamelia gave a few participants directions on creating a solar flare. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448487002419-4FS3S7YBTY4XRT2A7JQJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Angry Birds (Or the Battle to be the Alpha Turkey) The flare kept growing larger and hotter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448487030153-WEZHSLUN4I4ZRFF594AX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Angry Birds (Or the Battle to be the Alpha Turkey) Art met science in the Notebook's future Sun room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448487055202-8J8FCCDDIBWEYGLR7GLB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Angry Birds (Or the Battle to be the Alpha Turkey) That's Joe, the solar physicist, on the left. He's a wonderful and interesting guy. He has invented a number of simple devices to help teach children about astronomy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448487074423-RWOQEJOOTK67TNTYOTPE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Angry Birds (Or the Battle to be the Alpha Turkey) I have to repeat a story I mentioned on the Notebook's Facebook page. The youngest Moon and Sun room painter was four. She brought this toy. I asked her who the rider was. Maria Zuber, the girl said shyly. Wow, I thought. Maria Zuber is an MIT professor and one of the world's foremost planetary scientists. It turned out that a past visit to the Notebook had helped spark an insatiable interest in science in this potential future Maria Zuber, who loves watching the real Maria in a science video she has at home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448487099450-03JH67W63EB4S8BXTIYZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Angry Birds (Or the Battle to be the Alpha Turkey) What's going on here? Western powers carving up Africa again? No, just another Notebook project that requires building something unusual. Next time I'll show you what happens when you cut a globe in half. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448487129470-1U9TL542SYLDL8S71FUG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Angry Birds (Or the Battle to be the Alpha Turkey) Sir Isaac Newton https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/chuckies-back monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448487377401-UW4NSWTW3MM78XVXONNK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 'Chuckie's Back The woodchuck came out this week after months in hibernation—and wasn't the only animal on the move. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448487406157-7BYZJ074BZDSEIFHSK17/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 'Chuckie's Back A yellow-rumped warbler https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448487443892-L2RNBV1BPPHKQLX9L0H6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 'Chuckie's Back He—or she—roamed the lawn, the garden beds and under the bird feeders, sniffing and nibbling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448487468631-EJHLHUZEBO75CTDGM6XC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 'Chuckie's Back He—or she—showed pretty good speed in almost bounding down granite stairs toward the water. I'd probably feel frisky too after spending months in a dormant state in a hole in the ground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448487548590-WKCVQSGUVM6B771FM6NU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 'Chuckie's Back We took this photo at the Museum of Natural History in London. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448487576380-L8JFVUK8WLKI9NVF4O5V/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 'Chuckie's Back Rene Descartes https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/the-beautiful-earth-from-space monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448487643851-42AWJHOVMLY1ZWDS5JLQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Beautiful Earth, From Space https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448487705024-0LARZSYF5GKEX4WJR0A9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Beautiful Earth, From Space A yellow-headed blackbird, one of the species you're likely to see on Jeff's trip. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448487737387-KMP5PL0PLH4QPMQH8YFZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Beautiful Earth, From Space A Wilson's phalarope https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448487759821-JRYEQXGKTJ2ONP3TZ59O/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Beautiful Earth, From Space A willow ptarmigan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448487784304-KUWGTQWKD94DD2LD69LF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Beautiful Earth, From Space A three-toed woodpecker https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448487803439-34FZNAZDKJ1E9H6JOS6I/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Beautiful Earth, From Space A yellow rail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448487881609-8YIKWEO79UUFO6Q8M5HK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Beautiful Earth, From Space White cliffs of Dover https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/the-excavating-chickadee-and-the-canine-taste-tester monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448488082285-PDJ6MH441564VDKRMNRI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Excavating Chickadee and the Canine Taste Tester One of the chickadees at work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448488109880-I8FG9KKFD2P58VIZC3SS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Excavating Chickadee and the Canine Taste Tester Two days ago we saw the reddest cardinal this side of Rome. Sign of spring? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448488136187-8W8FPANM892FOP25CTOM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Excavating Chickadee and the Canine Taste Tester Felicitous license plate sighting on Sunday, a few hours before we had dinner with the great naturalist Bernd Heinrich, author of the books Mind of the Raven and Ravens in Winter. That same day Bernd received a prestigious PEN award for his latest book, LIfe Everlasting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448488163783-H604FBCI6XT5ZH3RZYXI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Excavating Chickadee and the Canine Taste Tester Bentley volunteered to be our taste tester. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448488192120-QCBFME7ZRYVJG9HHVHNS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Excavating Chickadee and the Canine Taste Tester He dove into the task with great enthusiasm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448488211033-WYU6IFFB0UJUSWT8B6EM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Excavating Chickadee and the Canine Taste Tester He chose treat number two. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448488230630-VPGRROXK2FX12OPJVVFV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Excavating Chickadee and the Canine Taste Tester While taking this shot of Bentley's brother cat Fritz, we didn't notice the word on the refrigerator. Purrr-fect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448488252552-39CLLDH2S44DWXTUBBNR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Excavating Chickadee and the Canine Taste Tester During a short visit to Portland, Maine, last weekend we came upon Longfellow's birthplace. Maine was part of Massachusetts when Henry Wadsworth was born. (Apologies to our Portland friends—we will stay longer next time!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448488277240-06487DTY64477XSH75KT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Excavating Chickadee and the Canine Taste Tester We saw this sign by the entrance to a colonial-era home in Maine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448488321718-OBRAFWSJYMI46ODOQRTB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Excavating Chickadee and the Canine Taste Tester I saw this at the Belfast Co-op market on our drive home and was initially startled by the idea. Turns out Cat’s Claw, otherwise known by the Harry Potter curse of a name Uncaria tomentosa, is a woody vine that has claw-shaped thorns and is also called hawk’s claw and sparrowhawk nail. If what I read on the Internet is correct, it pretty much cures everything. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448488343245-QQEBOK17CMD8W140TV0E/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Excavating Chickadee and the Canine Taste Tester Wadsworth in England with his adoptive mother, Ann Munday. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448488363735-AH418DICU9MSI0NLR1YQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Excavating Chickadee and the Canine Taste Tester The Moon as seen from Portland, Maine, on Saturday night. If you were following the astronomy news this week (or read The Naturalist's Notebook's Facebook page), you know that the European Space Agency's Planck Observatory produced a major discovery: The universe is 13.82 billion years old, or roughly 100 million years older than was previously thought. And yes, that means we will have to update The Notebook's slogan. It's now a place for everyone who's even a little curious about the last 13.8 billion years (give or take). There's even more to be curious about! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448488391491-YEXB2IIQGU8BKKNQ1J8U/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Excavating Chickadee and the Canine Taste Tester Would you eat anything that contained 200,000 heat units? https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/96-hours-in-cambridge-harvard-rhinos-nasa-satellites-glass-flowers-and-more monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448488488400-T37O5EJZPU0PIZX89Z2T/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 96 Hours in Cambridge: Harvard Rhinos, NASA Satellites, Glass Flowers and More Pamelia at Harvard with famous rhinos Vicky and Bess outside the Biology Laboratory building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448488523980-2CXD05CD9M7NV4KD4QUG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 96 Hours in Cambridge: Harvard Rhinos, NASA Satellites, Glass Flowers and More Pamelia asked for Jonathan's ideas on some of The Naturalist's Notebook's projects and designs over lunch at the Hi-Rise Bread Company cafe near his office. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448488548984-S5VQF92RIXRO7ZBPWY3K/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 96 Hours in Cambridge: Harvard Rhinos, NASA Satellites, Glass Flowers and More Here's Chandra. It was carried into orbit by the Space Shuttle in 1999. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448488569489-F6ZBJXGG5U94OMDH9WWZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 96 Hours in Cambridge: Harvard Rhinos, NASA Satellites, Glass Flowers and More In showing us Harvard's 166-year-old Great Refractor telescope, Jonathan pointed out the step ladders that astronomers had to climb and descend while tracking the movement of stars and planets over the course of an evening. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448488595665-Z5IFS3MX4HAOFUR73YL1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 96 Hours in Cambridge: Harvard Rhinos, NASA Satellites, Glass Flowers and More That's the Earth in the middle of Jonathan's quick sketch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448488624922-U04TDVG25C5U8GRDL3ZJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 96 Hours in Cambridge: Harvard Rhinos, NASA Satellites, Glass Flowers and More The electromagnetic spectrum. Notice how little of it we humans can see. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448488645744-XUKNM8FDXBDRKD1NI6EJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 96 Hours in Cambridge: Harvard Rhinos, NASA Satellites, Glass Flowers and More Jonathan showed us how he and other astrophysicists read information gathered by Chandra. The black lines in the spectrum enable them to figure out (among other things) what chemical elements are in a star (each element has a unique set of black lines in its spectrum) and how fast a star is moving away from the Earth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448488665988-0E443AECMWKEKPU0G2JZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 96 Hours in Cambridge: Harvard Rhinos, NASA Satellites, Glass Flowers and More This slightly blurry shot shows the very different pictures of the Crab Nebula taken by (from left) Chandra, Hubble and Spitzer, NASA's three Great Observatories in the sky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448488718388-U4SWSGDPFMQWWF9C7WRH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 96 Hours in Cambridge: Harvard Rhinos, NASA Satellites, Glass Flowers and More Vicky and Bess up close. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448488782453-5BXKDD8YU32PB7MMAXPQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 96 Hours in Cambridge: Harvard Rhinos, NASA Satellites, Glass Flowers and More The animal frieze was carved into the brick face of the Bio Lab by workers during the Great Depression. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448488819792-V9I07K5Y6YB1K4G5375S/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 96 Hours in Cambridge: Harvard Rhinos, NASA Satellites, Glass Flowers and More Katharine Lane Weems https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448488839284-G6NZ3TB75XJJX9HUJ92R/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 96 Hours in Cambridge: Harvard Rhinos, NASA Satellites, Glass Flowers and More Katharine Lane Weems also designed every one of the bronze door panels on the Bio Lab building. Each shows a different insect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448488972605-CA40GDLEV2D2I02NV3J5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 96 Hours in Cambridge: Harvard Rhinos, NASA Satellites, Glass Flowers and More Here's one full door to study and admire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448488993137-XZEZT40NQDNIVWFTXRH6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 96 Hours in Cambridge: Harvard Rhinos, NASA Satellites, Glass Flowers and More Harvard entomologist and author Michael Canfield gave us a historical tour of the Museum of Natural History and the Museum of Comparative Zoology,which is not open to the public. Mike's last book was Field Notes On Science and Nature, on which he collaborated with such great scientists as E.O. Wilson, Bernd Heinrich, George Schaller and Piotr Naskrecki. Just wait until his next book comes out—you'll love it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448489025197-2N9KNWFVZYDL8TR7R4MN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 96 Hours in Cambridge: Harvard Rhinos, NASA Satellites, Glass Flowers and More Mike's wonderful book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448489047526-ZQ653LWSOU1BPC01S81H/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 96 Hours in Cambridge: Harvard Rhinos, NASA Satellites, Glass Flowers and More From one of the museum's bird-specimen cases, here are (from left) Bullock's, hooded and Baltimore orioles (the last one a bit faded from age). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448489067264-YDQ7BMARSBST9DGQPBRA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 96 Hours in Cambridge: Harvard Rhinos, NASA Satellites, Glass Flowers and More We were happy to see a group of artists drawing the specimens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448489085564-6WJCFQXW72Z2SGU4JUY2/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 96 Hours in Cambridge: Harvard Rhinos, NASA Satellites, Glass Flowers and More A mountain gorilla and a hooklock gibbon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448489105797-OHOS8N8K465W9XXL4SQ9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 96 Hours in Cambridge: Harvard Rhinos, NASA Satellites, Glass Flowers and More One of the biggest thrills for us was seeing the rooms where E.O. Wilson and his mentor Frank Carpenter (whose sketchbook we have on display at The Naturalist's Notebook) did some of their pioneering insect research. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448489127690-0XPTRMMJ5U7C22RSJ8GR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 96 Hours in Cambridge: Harvard Rhinos, NASA Satellites, Glass Flowers and More The variety of beetles in the world is staggering. The Comparative Museum collection has these labeled in jest as David and Goliath. David is smaller than the head of a pin; Goliath is the size of your fist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448489161868-VGGZPED3XAT2V10X5LBW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 96 Hours in Cambridge: Harvard Rhinos, NASA Satellites, Glass Flowers and More The Glass Flowers Room might be the biggest highlight of Harvard's Natural History Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448489699552-1IJ8CD9JKIXGI5RV02T9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 96 Hours in Cambridge: Harvard Rhinos, NASA Satellites, Glass Flowers and More This is not grass. It is GLASS. The glass flowers collection at the Natural History Museum is mind-blowing. A father and son, Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, made astoundingly deliciate, painstakingly painted glass representations of an herbarium's worth of plants. They even made cross-section views to help botanists understand the flora. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448489718571-FTIPBL6UUSRW2EMHDLY3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 96 Hours in Cambridge: Harvard Rhinos, NASA Satellites, Glass Flowers and More The elder Blaschka began making glass mollusks and other sea creatures before being commissioned to do his famous flowers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448489744753-R0Q3BXQC3XVQJSM07UBG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 96 Hours in Cambridge: Harvard Rhinos, NASA Satellites, Glass Flowers and More According to a display, the Blaschkas used glass-working techniques they had adapted from jewelry making. They pulled, crinkled and occasionally blew glass tubing and plate glass after softening it over a flame. They fused wire to the base of glass leaves, petals and other parts and assembled them, and used glass tubing for stems. They initially painted the work, but because Rudolf wasn't satisfied with the colors of commercial pigments, they later made their own colored glasses to work with. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448489768944-1V5VXN7JK5652G7NH5R6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 96 Hours in Cambridge: Harvard Rhinos, NASA Satellites, Glass Flowers and More The Blaschkas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448489789793-YXQ3C3DYZAB5ITEO3KA5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 96 Hours in Cambridge: Harvard Rhinos, NASA Satellites, Glass Flowers and More We wandered the Harvard campus quite a bit during our visit. Near the school's outdoor skating rink we saw some tables and chairs... and Pamelia saw a 13.7-billion-year spectrum waiting to happen. So we began moving everything around.... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448489808940-8YYHG3JLC81JTCUXEGC6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 96 Hours in Cambridge: Harvard Rhinos, NASA Satellites, Glass Flowers and More And then all was well. The colors had found their natural order. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448489835268-3YT2B98Z2V6V0A5W05KE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 96 Hours in Cambridge: Harvard Rhinos, NASA Satellites, Glass Flowers and More Pamelia found these colorful, musical letters inside a bathroom at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astronomy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448489859456-SZPPIIYC0BAA6MXMG26V/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 96 Hours in Cambridge: Harvard Rhinos, NASA Satellites, Glass Flowers and More No space left in this long blog post for more than three more letters: MIT, where we attended another fine lecture by UC San Diego astrophysicist Brian Keating. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448489886566-N2GNCHOOWIKIDN3NLBUL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 96 Hours in Cambridge: Harvard Rhinos, NASA Satellites, Glass Flowers and More What's going on behind this door? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448489910724-ULG5WZO35JV5S7MYH9HP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 96 Hours in Cambridge: Harvard Rhinos, NASA Satellites, Glass Flowers and More Do you love Acadia National Park? Without this man, there would be no Acadia. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/science-music-and-fun-at-dartmouth monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448490030796-AUQ4K38U9BFWG9FC08OO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Science, Music and Fun at Dartmouth Pamelia welcomed our arrival in Hanover, which sits on the Connecticut River across from Vermont and is home to the smallest of the Ivy League schools. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448490048529-TRA3P3S4I7AXHXJDI3V3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Science, Music and Fun at Dartmouth The school's Lone Pine Tree flag (Dartmouth has no animal mascot) flew at half-staff in memory of C. Everett Koop, the former U.S. surgeon general who had just died. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448490070080-JYRAFYY9JXNS8RVG8PZC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Science, Music and Fun at Dartmouth If you walk on Main Street in Hanover, you are also walking on the most gentrified portion of the Appalachian Trail. We chose not to hike the 341 miles to trail's end at Mount Katahdin in Maine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448490088045-FY5H70LFHTIB95UAHA0D/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Science, Music and Fun at Dartmouth You Facebook followers already saw this shot of Pamelia under the big, revolving Earth in the Dartmouth physics department. We would love to add one of these (a smaller model) to the Notebook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448490111567-7IGGZP6J41H9KO7CNYTY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Science, Music and Fun at Dartmouth This one's for you, George and Henry Avery: In the heart of Boston Red Sox country, the Dartmouth baseball field is named for alum Red Rolfe, who played third base for the hated (in these parts) New York Yankees. Did I mention that I worked with one of Red Rolfe's descendants at Sports Illustrated For Kids? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448490171751-LFIJ1NI69ZWE9CMZ9W96/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Science, Music and Fun at Dartmouth Louise Bourgeois' Crouching Spider https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448490195149-PV300MGXJ1UIGIKS1BUH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Science, Music and Fun at Dartmouth We didn't realize when we set up our meeting with Stephon Alexander that he was the cover subject of the latest issue of the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448490229759-FEOMNVSJZLH0NPAWNBOB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Science, Music and Fun at Dartmouth Our two hours with Stephon were an insight-filled delight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448490261236-SDXM20S4EVNXX5W4PNFI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Science, Music and Fun at Dartmouth We took a detour to the South Pole with visiting lecturer (and Notebook contributor) Brian Keating, an astrophysicist at UC San Diego. He described going to an observatory station Antarctica to measure cosmic microwave background radiation emitted during and after the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago—but just reaching the Earth now, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448490293070-LWU6YAM7HRID1Q3S2BWT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Science, Music and Fun at Dartmouth Just FYI, this is Brian's photo of the passenger terminal at the South Pole. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448490311163-UBQYZ78XSJJ2AL47TBIJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Science, Music and Fun at Dartmouth Before the lecture, esteemed Dartmouth cosmologist Robert Caldwell showed Brian his CHIRALITY IS SCREWY T-shirt. What is chirality, you ask? As best as I understand it (which is roughly), it’s the trait of an object (anything from a molecule to the universe) not being identical to its mirror image. It’s sometimes linked metaphorically to the concept of right-handedness and left-handedness. Cosmologists are now studying whether components of the universe are, if you will, more right-handed, more left-handed, or perfectly symmetrical. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448490330651-V32WRW9A6PIIVG1UQQR5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Science, Music and Fun at Dartmouth We got to look inside the Shattuck Observatory, which was built in the mid-1800s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448490352309-KH5MFKL37S6ZZJFH78WN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Science, Music and Fun at Dartmouth Miles Blencowe generously gave us a tour inside the observatory https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448490370135-66F97BVWN6Z32O9GBUS7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Science, Music and Fun at Dartmouth A cosmic collection of astrophysicists after the Dartmouth lecture: Miles Blencowe, Brian Keating, Stephon Alexander, Peter Johnson...and Pamelia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448490389210-RWO894IAGTDRIW6SAL3H/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Science, Music and Fun at Dartmouth We checked out the Orozco murals downstairs in the Baker Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448490405889-UQMBIAL7XN30TFJFFQ4T/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Science, Music and Fun at Dartmouth The murals stirred up some criticism, including this portrait suggesting that America's education system was a bit too rigid and regimented. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448490423369-ZLNLGIY25ZRJRP6V28CD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Science, Music and Fun at Dartmouth In a courtyard by the Hood Museum of Art we encountered this untitled sculpture by internationally renowned artist Joel Shapiro, whom Pamelia got to know back in her early days in New York. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448490451365-TJ7OUKIT933EQMKNARC6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Science, Music and Fun at Dartmouth Perhaps you'll recall that just a few weeks ago we saw the Geisel library, named for Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. At Dartmouth we saw the Geisel med school...and happened to be there on Dr. Seuss's birthday. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448490476657-OLXUJP4YSA7YN18N4UJL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Science, Music and Fun at Dartmouth What's their story? https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/physic-al-comedy monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/why-is-pamelia-painting-a-billion-stars monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448490729836-ROWCD853UC2Y6LMYZEM5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Why Is Pamelia Painting a Billion Stars? Pamelia spent last evening in the studio creating this starry, starry sky and others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448490754859-JIPKUS1EMER99D40V1XL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Why Is Pamelia Painting a Billion Stars? Part of her method was to invent a multi-brush painting tool by sticking small brushes into one of those green foam blocks used in flower arranging. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448490775866-A239M4QNO97N1594E6N8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Why Is Pamelia Painting a Billion Stars? The Orion nebula, where stars are forming at this very moment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448490798088-C9TR9EUSP8MXJCFMVBHH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Why Is Pamelia Painting a Billion Stars? As part of the sky image, Pamelia is creating a Milky Way that will lead Notebook visitors from deep space and the Big Bang to our solar system. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448490825159-DOR5U51O8O75FHXU6J8X/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Why Is Pamelia Painting a Billion Stars? Not bad for a quick experiment in universe-buildiing! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448490929757-FG33EZKFNKOWHRECCBBN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Why Is Pamelia Painting a Billion Stars? This is the lower jaw of a black drum fish. Note the unusual dental plate. Drum fish use that when crushing the shells of sea creatures they are devouring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448490957077-OBUDQ34TALPHXCYOH4QN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Why Is Pamelia Painting a Billion Stars? These circles of bones are dermal scutes from an alligator, which serve as body armor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448490979975-YNLPF95UQ4SQ5LI6MVDX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Why Is Pamelia Painting a Billion Stars? These are fossilized shark's teeth dating back 40 million years. Bruce says that they are from snaggletooth and megatooth sharks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448491872611-M5CM70Y5ACUKWSY8GV0F/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Why Is Pamelia Painting a Billion Stars? Seals sunning in front of our house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448491905988-ZQYISN97EP0HXL4EBNJO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Why Is Pamelia Painting a Billion Stars? Who made this track? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448491924602-0IBGIFS3LGXCA4FUDS4B/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Why Is Pamelia Painting a Billion Stars? How about these? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448491944730-LZQ3K8QQC6YHDKU2LAJL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Why Is Pamelia Painting a Billion Stars? How about these TWO sets of tracks? https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/elephant-seals-migrant-monarchs-shadow-art-and-a-ladder-accident monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448492161498-J8KCU5SAUB8BAXSJXYPE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Elephant Seals, Migrant Monarchs, Shadow Art...And a Ladder Accident More than 1,000 elephant seals were sunning on the beach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448492256608-Y3X4FN533AMCCFJ7IF4Z/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Elephant Seals, Migrant Monarchs, Shadow Art...And a Ladder Accident Only the male seals have the elephant-trunk-like snouts, which they use to roar during mating season. (All of the seals tend to make rude belching noises.) Most of the elephant seals on the beach were either females or pups. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448492286388-H68LXKNJPKANMKYZ90C4/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Elephant Seals, Migrant Monarchs, Shadow Art...And a Ladder Accident The elephant seals have short flippers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448492306332-Z4AW4SOHKWZGPN8HFCID/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Elephant Seals, Migrant Monarchs, Shadow Art...And a Ladder Accident See those marks on the seal's belly? Those are bites from small sharks called cookiecutter sharks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448492327679-GXX327KJAKS6HF1FSU2B/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Elephant Seals, Migrant Monarchs, Shadow Art...And a Ladder Accident A naturalist on the beach showed us a photo of a cookie-cutter shark. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448492356976-DFEI9XQJQ9X44F0B468E/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Elephant Seals, Migrant Monarchs, Shadow Art...And a Ladder Accident Pamelia during the first of our two visits to the elephant seal rookery near San Simeon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448492379566-MS14DAKJVPGW3AEGNOMT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Elephant Seals, Migrant Monarchs, Shadow Art...And a Ladder Accident This sign made me think: If your body keeps producing new skin cells even as you grow old (which it does), why does it produce new skin cells that look like old skin? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448492404927-CKIHUKJ5GCT2PO0BK1XJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Elephant Seals, Migrant Monarchs, Shadow Art...And a Ladder Accident Home of the Pismo Beach monarchs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448492426353-75H474GSAWVEZDDES9OU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Elephant Seals, Migrant Monarchs, Shadow Art...And a Ladder Accident A particular grove of eucalyptus trees in Pismo Beach was filled with monarchs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448492448513-KGAU0H0QATW56UVUZSO1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Elephant Seals, Migrant Monarchs, Shadow Art...And a Ladder Accident Some of the monarchs had migrated more than 1,000 miles, and none had ever made the trip before. The route is built into their genetic programming, and they make use of clues from ultraviolet light (which humans can't see), among other factors, to find their way to the destination. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448492468882-YKGKGIE2DAMXOQK9QOCW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Elephant Seals, Migrant Monarchs, Shadow Art...And a Ladder Accident The monarchs packed the undersides of the high branches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448492500044-FWXAXABYM655UQ10UJA0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Elephant Seals, Migrant Monarchs, Shadow Art...And a Ladder Accident Sort of looks as though we were figure skating (badly). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448492517031-37JS7DFFQUP58OCBLSM7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Elephant Seals, Migrant Monarchs, Shadow Art...And a Ladder Accident Pamelia the pictogram. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448492534223-CRMMUG9CTDZHRM9LB3DK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Elephant Seals, Migrant Monarchs, Shadow Art...And a Ladder Accident The sandstone cliffs were aglow in the late-afternoon light when we started playing around. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448492561254-DF4335FOC3KLMTC6ELXS/image-asset.png Blog - Elephant Seals, Migrant Monarchs, Shadow Art...And a Ladder Accident How we did it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448492594752-IR7X2SRPKCTJNTATNS8P/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Elephant Seals, Migrant Monarchs, Shadow Art...And a Ladder Accident James Bullock with us in his office. Don't even try to figure out the formulas on the white board. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448492614476-KCWTMLYGCV6I5Z4ICXQ2/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Elephant Seals, Migrant Monarchs, Shadow Art...And a Ladder Accident This is how small a midge is. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448492633841-FRP8YWSJ4PU2SRQPBJ4O/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Elephant Seals, Migrant Monarchs, Shadow Art...And a Ladder Accident This shows how cacao pods (the source of the seeds from which chocolate is made) grow on the tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448492685959-Z3B5RRJ741Q8MD6XW2O8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Elephant Seals, Migrant Monarchs, Shadow Art...And a Ladder Accident Why it's good to keep a sketchbook with you when you're out walking: Pamelia did a fast drawing of a hummingbird we saw in the cactus garden at San Diego's Balboa Park. The bird seemed to be attracted to our orange sweaters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448492727361-YKNSVZKCZ736BDN29QTN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Elephant Seals, Migrant Monarchs, Shadow Art...And a Ladder Accident Here's what she was sketching. Judging from the field guides, I think it's a female Costa's hummingbird, but please correct me if you know better. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448492750005-WQM20HFX834M9ASD6H9P/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Elephant Seals, Migrant Monarchs, Shadow Art...And a Ladder Accident She was not drawing on pink paper, but I took this photo in a museum theater where we were about to watch a documentary on migranting butterflies; the lighting was funky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448492774673-NDA9J10QDEU0NY5U9WZC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Elephant Seals, Migrant Monarchs, Shadow Art...And a Ladder Accident Any of you know what type of cactus this is? We saw it in the garden in Balboa Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448492799327-X8XPTWAN430OCXXPE6H1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Elephant Seals, Migrant Monarchs, Shadow Art...And a Ladder Accident Two long-billed curlews scoured the beach in Cambria. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448492816641-8SH1LBVBJBSNYWNM7NAO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Elephant Seals, Migrant Monarchs, Shadow Art...And a Ladder Accident I liked the pattern in these hens and chicks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448492838880-UREIFKXM9W4JIB92HDNL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Elephant Seals, Migrant Monarchs, Shadow Art...And a Ladder Accident Hearst ranch cattle in front of Hearst Castle (hilltop in back). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448492859629-QHC4ZJBG2NJEN9GJ7CCZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Elephant Seals, Migrant Monarchs, Shadow Art...And a Ladder Accident What would you call this? https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/welcome-to-pixar-berkeley-and-the-fun-frontier-of-astronomy monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448492990177-J7GH7G96UPIH84Z6YFR5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Welcome to Pixar, Berkeley and the Fun Frontier of Astronomy We arrived in late afternoon at Pixar headquarters in Emeryville, on the east side of San Francisco Bay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448493008413-SGJC5M9C3837D9V888KU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Welcome to Pixar, Berkeley and the Fun Frontier of Astronomy In a plaza outside the Steve Jobs Building sits large model of Luxo Jr., one of the two table-lamp stars of Pixar's famous 1986 animated short of that same name, and now the symbol of the company. As you can see, Luxo Jr. lights up at night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448493031097-35VLBPS0WTB6U7S5NG9S/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Welcome to Pixar, Berkeley and the Fun Frontier of Astronomy Steve Jobs designed a large open space in the main HQ building to encourage interaction and creativity among the entire Pixar staff. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448493051764-Y7UT6Z19XS8NJ355ZSOD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Welcome to Pixar, Berkeley and the Fun Frontier of Astronomy Pamelia with Dan McCoy, one of the wizards of Pixar. Dan (who once worked for NASA) was most recently the supervising technical director of the Oscar-nominated short La Luna, which was shown in theaters before Brave. He showed us a range of sketches, storyboards, sculptures, script pages and—I'm running out of S-words here—screen clips that illustrated the entire creative process behind Brave. Those banners hanging in the background have images linked to Brave. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448493079987-28N6FEJY0JEV23DLR607/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Welcome to Pixar, Berkeley and the Fun Frontier of Astronomy I mentioned the Oscars right? These were the first ones Pamelia and I had ever seen in person. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448493102415-F1ZVELUYDHV4Y9YBTPLX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Welcome to Pixar, Berkeley and the Fun Frontier of Astronomy As darkness fell, we bid farewell to the Monsters, Inc., characters Sulley (left) and Mike. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448493127579-2668URPVW3POE8E3YFEK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Welcome to Pixar, Berkeley and the Fun Frontier of Astronomy At Cal we met with one of America's foremost astrophysicists, Alex Filippenko (center), who also happens to be a wonderful guy and an amazing teacher. Students have voted him Cal's Best Professor a record nine times, and he has been named the national professor of the year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448493146335-VZGOC8N4MG075DVT9BAZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Welcome to Pixar, Berkeley and the Fun Frontier of Astronomy Cal's cool astronomy T-shirts combine the school's landmark campanile with Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448493162608-KVC9VKZQZ83DFGP51M1U/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Welcome to Pixar, Berkeley and the Fun Frontier of Astronomy We found Mars—inhabited by Martians!—on Berkeley's Telegraph Ave. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448493180268-EQANEYXK93Y6E4T37BGD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Welcome to Pixar, Berkeley and the Fun Frontier of Astronomy Smart choice in wine? This bottle greeted us when we arrived at our Berkeley hotel, which had a Cal theme. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448493200375-K1189PWDJ6QITAG5WXYY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Welcome to Pixar, Berkeley and the Fun Frontier of Astronomy Even the art in our room had a brainy theme. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448493218287-LAW13HNOWPFMNXFCTY9D/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Welcome to Pixar, Berkeley and the Fun Frontier of Astronomy Pamelia took time to pose with some of the many bears at Cal, whose teams are known as the Golden Bears. (In the interest of good taste, I will spare you the photo of the red Stanford-logoed urinal in the public men's room at our hotel, a typical Cal tribute to its archrival.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448493238510-LE02M0MB76I5A4MQM634/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Welcome to Pixar, Berkeley and the Fun Frontier of Astronomy A flock of cedar waxwings was fueliing up on berries on campus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448493253254-E7UBR7Y2DIPV38VZVIAI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Welcome to Pixar, Berkeley and the Fun Frontier of Astronomy We climbed one of the Berkeley hills to try to visit the botanical gardens (closed for the day) and the Lawrence Hall of Science (open and delightful), Pamelia saw this four-inch leopard slug on the path. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448493272028-GG84UV8CYPO3C9LRC2M5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Welcome to Pixar, Berkeley and the Fun Frontier of Astronomy Outside the Lawrence Hall of Science is a large model of DNA. Those silvery pipes are the tk. The plastic connectors . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448493293747-NCBHE859OFN0ZAKBF5GA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Welcome to Pixar, Berkeley and the Fun Frontier of Astronomy Less than 24 hours after seeing our first Oscar, we were looking at our first Nobel Prize, the one for physics that Ernest Lawrence received in 1939. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448493315055-OZ74EL90KVYILBVZL2KS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Welcome to Pixar, Berkeley and the Fun Frontier of Astronomy A sign in an empty lot in Berkeley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448493338373-55SBWQEPVJPG1TQX0WYC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Welcome to Pixar, Berkeley and the Fun Frontier of Astronomy A wall on the corner of Telegraph Ave. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448493357057-6L3PKFR2W9NQEDX8D3WE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Welcome to Pixar, Berkeley and the Fun Frontier of Astronomy What tree produced these? https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/the-notebook-heads-to-california monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448493899226-QEARH6U4GPCU2VIA0N1R/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook Heads to California Pamelia and I visited the Salk Institute, a biological research center founded in 1960 by the legendary Jonas Salk that is home to multiple Nobel winners. It was designed by the brilliant architect Louis Kahn, whose unusual personal story (he kept three separate families, with a wife and two mistresses) you may recall from the movie My Architect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448493953981-I7974T7WPTJ5UJS978EA/image-asset.png Blog - The Notebook Heads to California After a great meeting at the San Diego Zoo with bonobo researcher Debbie Sandler, we stopped to see the capuchin monkeys. Thanks to Gary for this shot, which captures the spirited attitude the capuchins were displaying. Whenever I see a capuchin I think of the movie Night at the Museum, in which one gleefully tormented Ben Stiller. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448493972045-AHGUQN5GO0QGAPZL6UDZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook Heads to California We spent more than an hour studying and discussing bonobos—which are humans' closest relatives genetically—with Debbie and two of the staff members. We have had a bonobo skeleton at the Notebook for the last three years; you'll be learning more about these amazing animals this season. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448493986924-7DGKX1EH9ZYH51SZNOHX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook Heads to California Pioneering research oceanographer Jules Jaffe of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography has invented all sorts of devices for studying the seas, including cameras that photograph the most minute life forms. This is a picture of some of Jules's extraordinary zooplankton photos. Jules helped design the optical system used to locate the Titanic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448494007215-5RQSF5CTMP6RMERYBNOS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook Heads to California At the San Diego Air & Space Museum, where we met with education director (and author and space-program expert) Francis French, we saw the command module from the Apollo 9 space mission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448494038382-JBN7N9YRFQYGGA2S6VDW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook Heads to California The stone teddy bear on the campus of the University of California at San Diego. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448494054175-9WRJ3BMT1YF63F99RZ7Y/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook Heads to California The UCSD's Geisel Library is named after Theodor Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, who is honored with this statue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448494073155-CXGSBH385NE2Z0C1YAIX/image-asset.png Blog - The Notebook Heads to California A pelican joined us in watching a boogie boarder ride the waves at Wind an Sea in La Jolla (just a few blocks from Mitt Romney's California home, by the way). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448494089159-8R852SI9YFR3DSWJY6H4/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook Heads to California We also saw ospreys—that is, Osprey tiltorotor aircraft, which are a hybrid between a helicopter and an airplane and served as a reminder that San Diego is also one of the U.S.'s biggest Navy and Marine hubs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448494123100-C3ELZIR5EQUTRGPRNN9H/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook Heads to California No, that's not Dorothy's house atop the engineering building at UC San Diego. As mentioned on Facebook, it's an art installation by Do Ho Suh. Here's a view of it from the office of one of the people with whom we met, Seth Lerer, the dean of humanities (and an acclaimed writer and literature professor and expert on digital literacy) at UCSD. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448494154326-BAA1RHUXY72P6WCYQFX8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook Heads to California We went inside the crooked-house artwork, where standing up straight isn't easy. I actually felt queasy after a few minutes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448494168017-F4VCHWD0RFGIAJL3DM4M/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook Heads to California This sculpture of a breaching gray whale outside the Birch Aquarium echoed the real gray whales currently offshore here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448494189138-HICFDV5M2IHXBP4IKLA2/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook Heads to California Astrophysicist Brian Keating showed us some of the sensors his group uses to detect cosmic microwave background radiation that is just now reaching us from the Big Bang, 13. 7 billion years ago. Brian does a lot of his work at a telescope array in Chile's Atacama Desert, the driest place in the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448494206126-U2ZM7GSQF0NS6N7YQKXI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook Heads to California Flamingos at the zoo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448494229531-PATD3YSUDU7JJGKSN8BK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook Heads to California Gary took us to Mister A's, a rooftop restaurant from which you can see the entire city and watch airliners come in surprisingly close to downtown. With all the air bases around, the roar of jets is a recurring stanza in the San Diego sound track. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448494246853-HG3EHIKAP7SHVD0A2DBY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook Heads to California That's Gary on the right, during a tide-pooling trip. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/coming-to-acadia-and-bar-harbor-the-2013-family-nature-summit-and-more monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448494422400-94WLX46STA2WD8VIDGL0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Coming to Acadia and Bar Harbor: The 2013 Family Nature Summit (and More) The organization dates back to the 1970s, when it was launched by the National Wildlife Federation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448494440720-L5IQQM47KBVE3N21GB6E/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Coming to Acadia and Bar Harbor: The 2013 Family Nature Summit (and More) Summiteers will pass The Tarn, at the foot of Dorr Mountain, if make the trip from Bar Harbor to the Notebook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448494470590-DGWON1FDNZICG8RNNWKT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Coming to Acadia and Bar Harbor: The 2013 Family Nature Summit (and More) The week-long event will include a wide range of activities every day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448494513419-QA62B68K22U0TVEBUOFQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Coming to Acadia and Bar Harbor: The 2013 Family Nature Summit (and More) Some of South Carolina's wood storks. That species is the only type of stork to breed in North America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448494528461-7G6DLXGDEY5PJA1LOY42/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Coming to Acadia and Bar Harbor: The 2013 Family Nature Summit (and More) A roseate spoonbill, photographed by renowed nature photographer Dr, Gene Cox in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Roseates use their distinctive bills to forage for small fish and invertebrates in shallow coastal ponds and marshes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448494552250-5NV6P0NULJ2XUL7SXOVU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Coming to Acadia and Bar Harbor: The 2013 Family Nature Summit (and More) These are yellow alligators by a freshwater pond on Brays Island Plantation, a former rice, cotton and indigo plantation that is now an ecodevelopment. If you look closely at this shot by Dr. Tracy Wilkins, you'll spot three yellow-bellied slider turtles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448494573797-2YIX0UYY0KT6M4JSCOYG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Coming to Acadia and Bar Harbor: The 2013 Family Nature Summit (and More) Had to throw in this shot I took last week, showing a Maine alligator, made of clouds at sunset and being attacked by a light spear. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448494618931-KEVVI5JOUNAOA4QI4WDK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Coming to Acadia and Bar Harbor: The 2013 Family Nature Summit (and More) This is the modern wind chill table, which has been in use for more than a decade. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448494643549-8DVI8LMHJQGAFF8DJEA6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Coming to Acadia and Bar Harbor: The 2013 Family Nature Summit (and More) One of the frozen footprints we followed when hiking up to naturalist Bernd Heinrich's western Maine cabin last week in minus-11-degree wind chill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448494688374-SBPVDEOC4WAIVJAHKMBC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Coming to Acadia and Bar Harbor: The 2013 Family Nature Summit (and More) discover cover https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448494707558-EE8NTE66V79Z6HLZ9YL0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Coming to Acadia and Bar Harbor: The 2013 Family Nature Summit (and More) Titan, one of Saturn's many moons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448494742476-8GL9JJ1B072QNM6CINRM/image-asset.png Blog - Coming to Acadia and Bar Harbor: The 2013 Family Nature Summit (and More) The shrinking Arctic ice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448494762848-NPTVPTUE1PBOZKXLYE9B/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Coming to Acadia and Bar Harbor: The 2013 Family Nature Summit (and More) The evening grosbeaks were out in force (as were pine grosbeaks and redpolls) when we reached Bernd Heinrich's cabin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448494791551-3D5F7FKM9D6I37SVRHQH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Coming to Acadia and Bar Harbor: The 2013 Family Nature Summit (and More) Can you identify the plant? https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/hunger-games-a-sharp-shinned-hawk-two-goshawks-and-a-poor-red-squirrel monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448494886054-QEZ3J47U1TYUQR9C4OYB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Hunger Games: A Sharp-Shinned Hawk, Two Goshawks and A Poor Red Squirrel This young sharp-shinned hawk sat on the deck watching our bird feeders and looking for prey. After about 20 minutes of studying him, I carefully opened the glass storm door and stood about six feet away when taking this shot. I went back inside and a few minutes later he flew off. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448494926384-3A9SC7II2BRXWUICVYJX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Hunger Games: A Sharp-Shinned Hawk, Two Goshawks and A Poor Red Squirrel Pamelia took this head-on view through a picture window. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448494943600-TX5MKN3U6G1Q4TUJTOD8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Hunger Games: A Sharp-Shinned Hawk, Two Goshawks and A Poor Red Squirrel Two mature bald eagles have been flying around our house and perching in trees overlooking the water. They keep calling out to each other, as if strategizing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448494965866-G7E5U1HBNSYT4DMWPC07/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Hunger Games: A Sharp-Shinned Hawk, Two Goshawks and A Poor Red Squirrel This is a parent (right) and juvenile goshawk. The young goshawk has just killed a red squirrel and is spreading his wings to create a sort of tent around it as he tears it apart and devours it. Perhaps the wide-wing posture also gives him balance while he tugs with his beak and head. The adult flew in a while after the kill, tried half-heartedly to steal the squirrel (or so it looked—perhaps it was part of the youngster's training), then stepped back to watch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448494996245-FNZJ0J73W9HNT9TFMTC7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Hunger Games: A Sharp-Shinned Hawk, Two Goshawks and A Poor Red Squirrel As Bernd notes, we humans often make the natural process of death into something unnatural. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448495017595-ER7ILMGLONHUIVVDEDQQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Hunger Games: A Sharp-Shinned Hawk, Two Goshawks and A Poor Red Squirrel As I said, not a pretty sight, but a natural one. Bernd's observation of what happens to carcasses like this raccoon's help us all understand the workings of nature in greater detail. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448495037790-NVL0YZ6TRDUQPZVEBYRP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Hunger Games: A Sharp-Shinned Hawk, Two Goshawks and A Poor Red Squirrel The Justin Bieber Rock? Or maybe early Paul Mc Cartney? During a low-tide walk we came up this seemingly barbered boulder covered with rock weed. Lots of tangles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448495050589-UEJNTVRILGJCZJO2LE4Q/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Hunger Games: A Sharp-Shinned Hawk, Two Goshawks and A Poor Red Squirrel A hydrogen atom: one electron circling a nucleus containing one proton and one neutron. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448495079347-UY2XU1JNUSR9HFNKXKLJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Hunger Games: A Sharp-Shinned Hawk, Two Goshawks and A Poor Red Squirrel In our 24-color-coded HUEMAN timeline figure, the Big Bang is represented in black at the bottom. Watch as we build the body in the weeks ahead. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448495095690-133CKPCUA688IF3ZRD7I/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Hunger Games: A Sharp-Shinned Hawk, Two Goshawks and A Poor Red Squirrel Little Long Pond, near The Naturalist's Notebook, as snow turned into snow fog during a blast of high-40s warmth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448495116217-Z8CICNR5U56E6HD50I25/discover-cover.jpg Blog - Hunger Games: A Sharp-Shinned Hawk, Two Goshawks and A Poor Red Squirrel discover cover https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448495157999-SNPXFXFZWOK8H88ILR87/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Hunger Games: A Sharp-Shinned Hawk, Two Goshawks and A Poor Red Squirrel A Notebook visitor from this past season sent us a kind note and shared a photo she took of our front sign—complete with a spider that she found mesmerizing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448495176380-J1X1S08PBJBR3EDPMY77/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Hunger Games: A Sharp-Shinned Hawk, Two Goshawks and A Poor Red Squirrel easternbrooktrout https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/fishing-boats-sea-creatures-and-four-seconds-of-human-history monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448495425219-56QFZF5YAD2KLM1BCCBU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Fishing Boats, Sea Creatures and Four Seconds of Human History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448495459147-PXK9SUYL07QBINPQJI9B/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Fishing Boats, Sea Creatures and Four Seconds of Human History A flock of common redpolls (a type of finch) showed up for a one-day visit in the middle of a snowstorm over the weekend. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448495502875-OZK2G76TF0NIHQ975QUW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Fishing Boats, Sea Creatures and Four Seconds of Human History We made this sign for the Notebook to help visitors grasp the vastness of the universe's history—and how short human history is by comparison. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448495558448-HDML1UDK1A4KCEKGCFJV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Fishing Boats, Sea Creatures and Four Seconds of Human History discover cover https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448495586394-6EZ88NNPI9X3ESFOTIGU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Fishing Boats, Sea Creatures and Four Seconds of Human History No, the snow isn't 100 feet deep atop Cadillac Mountain, though it looked that way when we took a walk the other day. That white cap was just a cloud that crawled over the peak and moved on. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/one-robin-in-winter monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448729256242-6YO7F4VRRVEM18LEWLOF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - One Robin in Winter The robin spends part of each day huddled in a small apple tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448729274403-Y0HXCTLMAQQY4O6OYB7N/image-asset.jpeg Blog - One Robin in Winter The front-walk feast we set out for the robin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448729295644-DI9NSWBUKYQWBDLTXV2R/image-asset.jpeg Blog - One Robin in Winter A satisfied diner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448729317474-VWTUJ0HAUKMVKUNV7LBD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - One Robin in Winter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448729339800-S6HFJREM1ZNKTGJXDUZI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - One Robin in Winter These mealworms seemed like the perfect protein booster for the robin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448729369142-YY7ZPYA54BZ3OITXRWGQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - One Robin in Winter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448729395242-OOWM9MMT68UUO40M4JBJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - One Robin in Winter discover cover https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448729439547-K6NLTF6B2QRXLW4GXAZN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - One Robin in Winter The hooked-leg spider. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448729463988-JOO5PHG1OE9CJV4U42OE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - One Robin in Winter https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/happy-2013-our-big-bang-year monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448729745366-KM89415WTAEZXN6AKZL9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Happy 2013—Our Big Bang Year https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448729772459-VSOUED8G68BAY5E1WLET/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Happy 2013—Our Big Bang Year The snowed-in Notebook on New Year's Eve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448729799439-6WMDBYYQ50JN0DWLE1ZC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Happy 2013—Our Big Bang Year Earth from space https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448729818941-S3HSH7E0DI9S7XEO024A/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Happy 2013—Our Big Bang Year https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448729845232-93JC9N31SVI9ZZNLRRA1/image-asset.png Blog - Happy 2013—Our Big Bang Year Here's how a Yutyrannus would have looked next to a human. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448729863647-VHB2QDGXWEB15KU5TE2G/badlands.jpg Blog - Happy 2013—Our Big Bang Year Badlands photo courtesy of the National Park Service https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448729891094-D6WY1CKQ4YWGOXNVFHPO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Happy 2013—Our Big Bang Year We have our first entrant for our annual Sweet 16 Honey-Tasting Tournament: Turkish mountain honey purchased on behalf of the Notebook by our nephew, Todd (left), and his fiancee, Silvia, on a trip to Istanbul. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/closing-days-of-2012 monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448730018734-LMY7JBPRO08WJLUXVWG6/waterandice.jpg Blog - Closing Days of 2012 A roadside stream on Christmas afternoon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448730040120-6UW2D56DOB7DGK8XOX8X/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Closing Days of 2012 Bald eagle and crows in our big oak tree by the sea. A caw-caw-phony of crow calls often warns of the eagle's approach, and the crows sometimes work together to try to drive the eagle away. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448730061610-Y0EQPULT2S4NMFLWJYGJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Closing Days of 2012 Natural ice carving of a bird, also from a Dec. 25 walk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448730082834-9U9MS64RDXC48IINKFTJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Closing Days of 2012 An especially low tide (before the snow fell). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448730104455-GCNSMY5L7Z5EY05ZPYE6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Closing Days of 2012 We saw this vertical ice-crystal rainbow one morning this week. It's called a Sun dog, and it's created by sunlight hitting fine ice crystals nicknamed diamond dust, which act like prisms. It can happen in very cold weather. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448730143112-C2SXWIIL01RCU3SFX50X/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Closing Days of 2012 Natural tinsel? The big chill has set in for New Year's week. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448730164307-SFT58MBEUOM8G3FOYT50/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Closing Days of 2012 The new park is on the eastern side of Hudson Bay, near that half-moon-shaped shoreline. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448730183272-M70WPSRIJ0HDIBT9J62A/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Closing Days of 2012 discover cover https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448730210076-KCYGKU6SJNHVY2CF25IN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Closing Days of 2012 From the brain section at this year's Notebook. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/woodpeckers-science-stories-and-what-minus-41-degree-air-does-to-a-bucket-of-water monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448730378458-7X6JGATNHLGXV7W7LUJ7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Woodpeckers, Science Stories and What Minus-41-Degree Air Does to a Bucket of Water Got a bit windy on the coast of Maine last night—gusts of 65 mph, according to the weather service. We heard a crash, turned on an outside light and found this great old seaside spruce (a bird and squirrel favorite) laying across the lawn and on our deck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448730405968-E7M3OX8DVMTUO7FTC40H/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Woodpeckers, Science Stories and What Minus-41-Degree Air Does to a Bucket of Water A red-bellied woodpecker has shown up lately at our house, joining the hairy, downy and pileated woodpeckers in the percussion section. He was checking out the downed tree this morning. Supposedly, if you look closely enough, you can see some faint red on the belly of a red-bellied, but whoever named these guys seems to have overlooked some far more obvious choices (red-capped? red-topped? crimson-crowned?). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448730422721-MNN5JVTM0SEYZ7R09H0K/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Woodpeckers, Science Stories and What Minus-41-Degree Air Does to a Bucket of Water Just for the record, the name red-headed woodpecker is already taken. Here is an example of one https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448730438425-SMJE851MPJ9CWN0UFCZ7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Woodpeckers, Science Stories and What Minus-41-Degree Air Does to a Bucket of Water And, while we are on the subject, here is the bird that claims the name of red-crowned woodpecker (but has a red belly!). This species lives in Central and South America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448730455226-LJBG9X39QI6QHCPARN1Q/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Woodpeckers, Science Stories and What Minus-41-Degree Air Does to a Bucket of Water O.K., one more redhead. When I was doing research into Slovenia recently, I discovered that it is home to this European green woodpecker. I thought it was a cool-looking bird. The British sometimes refer to these birds as Yaffles or Yappingales because of their loud, laughing call. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448730665789-4DQN5P60FADCUKANKWSU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Woodpeckers, Science Stories and What Minus-41-Degree Air Does to a Bucket of Water discover cover https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448730683039-T0JP56BXBF9HMI8LXTCH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Woodpeckers, Science Stories and What Minus-41-Degree Air Does to a Bucket of Water James Cameron's sub. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448730710993-LVX4BIOS50X3E9WUQXA1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Woodpeckers, Science Stories and What Minus-41-Degree Air Does to a Bucket of Water neworleanshornets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448730726274-NS888PCZEQFR0Z2OR42H/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Woodpeckers, Science Stories and What Minus-41-Degree Air Does to a Bucket of Water During recent rainstorms, these mallards have flown up into our driveway and used its small ruts as drinking troughs. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/sunlight-in-the-darkest-month monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448730830650-7ARXVE6WT5WE4QYPB9RE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Sunlight in the Darkest Month A recent view from home toward Alley Island (left) and Mount Desert Island (somewhere in the clouds and sea smoke). Because we’re north of the Equator and our half of the Earth is tilted away from the Sun, sunrise is now much farther south on our horizon—almost due southeast, according to my compass. In this darkest month our local star cuts a low, short arc across the Maine sky and sets before 4 p.m. Our wild turkeys are roosting in the trees by then, with 15 long hours to wait before the next sunrise. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448730899740-103NQC10D7WZALKOPNPK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Sunlight in the Darkest Month The Sun is about 3 million miles closer to us now than it is in summer, which explains why it can seem so bright when you’re driving at this time of year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448730938799-R2IVVZHGJY97WR84ZO99/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Sunlight in the Darkest Month Here the Sun begins to peek over Sargent Mountain. One of Discover magazine’s top 100 science stories of 2012 was the Sun’s Aug. 31 expulsion of a gigantic cloud of 100,000-degree plasma (ionized gas) that traveled 900 miles per second and was as long as 30 Earths put side by side. The magazine notes that in 2013 the Sun will be at the peak of its 11-year cycle of solar activity, so more amazing eruptions and auroras could be in store (and might bedevil satellites). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448730971962-38UQ9LXA24QUUL0CFGWV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Sunlight in the Darkest Month Here’s a mind-boggling lunar fact to ponder while looking at this gorgeous solar-lit scene: When the Moon formed, about 4.5 billion years ago, it was just 15,000 miles from Earth—almost 95 percent closer than it is now. As a result, as noted by scientist Robert Hazen in his superb book The Story of Earth, a full Moon would have looked 250 TIMES LARGER in the sky than it does now. It would have appeared 16 times greater in diameter than the Sun currently does. In a less-than-romantic twist, that full Moon would have been black, with glowing red magma-filled cracks. Imagine all THAT looming in the background of an Ansel Adams photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448731004751-GNKJXEOFPQSRKF8XQM6A/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Sunlight in the Darkest Month See you tomorrow at dawn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448731041373-K1L3RMJY4GYPFB1XUBE2/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Sunlight in the Darkest Month I keep missing the photo. I try to shoot this male cardinal and his mate camouflaged in the reddish branches of one of our leafless rugosa rose hedges. So instead I'll just show you how he chose to spend part of a recent rainy day, waiting for a gray squirrel to get off our bird feeder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448731054878-0F9H5NNRNUCRGQE48KPZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Sunlight in the Darkest Month https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/an-icy-world monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448731189333-QZF145P6GJ2TFICNFDAK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Icy World Frosted stone or icy Alp? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448731237826-01S907JQYQVIEI998I08/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Icy World One of my favorites—fall meets winter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448731267966-9WZY0GN8RPH22WXWG6Z0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Icy World Tall roadside grass—reminded me of the rock weed in our low-tide zone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448731293332-7QYVH7I1NCMIPIZKFEBL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Icy World I liked the way the ice crystals stood out on this leaf. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448731328218-D2T9GOS66XJHNNB1M3JS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Icy World Here the frost illuminates the vein structure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448731359183-HPOEWK0EH650MTDQY2K8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Icy World File:Cattle_Egret2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448731393415-X6FSD9HX80Y70PNEJN4R/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Icy World Bernd opening one of the American chestnuts at his cabin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448731441527-OY04QGF04E5UTQI73KG0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Icy World No, the deer outside the Pond House wasn’t eating popovers (inside joke). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448731472746-03YFWQYL3V7WAJECQ8IM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Icy World For those of you who didn’t see this shot on our Facebook page, here’s Marvel, the Welsh corgi who came by the Notebook on the day after Thanksgiving and fell asleep by my feet at the checkout desk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448731522288-6OUOOT9LAQQ4E21TSC1G/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Icy World Pamelia and I never know what sort of conversations we’ll get into with Notebook visitors, who are a fun and fascinating lot. Here one of them is showing me her library card from Greenland. It’s written in Greenlandic, an Inuit language. Among the other topics of discussions were whether pigs have hypothalamus glands, how to create a solar clock, why chlorophyl is green and how little selenium there is in Maine’s soil. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448731551819-ZQXBVDNPY7BYD20AQI10/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Icy World Another shot for those of you who didn’t see the news on our Facebook page: Notebook team members Virginia Brooks and Eli Mellen got married on Nov. 19 at Little Long Pond in Seal Harbor. They’re a perfectly matched couple and their wedding—on a brisk, sunny Maine day—was wonderfully natural. (Coincidentally, two former Notebook team members, Anne Mittnacht and Pat Johnson, are getting married in 2013. We’re on a streak!) https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/fox-cam-the-birds-of-paradise-project-election-notes-and-our-holiday-schedule monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448731906170-2JZZ3LFXU0IPMAPYXY12/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Fox Cam, the Birds-of-Paradise Project, Election Notes and Our Holiday Schedule Our motion-triggered wildlife camera continues to provide beautiful photos. I saw this red fox run across our lawn yesterday but didn’t realize that he (or she) would stop to pose for a picture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448731931990-M42Q4RZVU67AKY8VVP7G/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Fox Cam, the Birds-of-Paradise Project, Election Notes and Our Holiday Schedule Given how he (or she) stared into the camera, we wondered if the fox could see the infrared motion-detection beam aimed at him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448732016821-6RX8DD8S2I0XZXZMC35U/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Fox Cam, the Birds-of-Paradise Project, Election Notes and Our Holiday Schedule What’s this? A glimpse of what’s coming to the Notebook in 2013? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448732049565-G9LCAN1VG59A0Y6J2X4J/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Fox Cam, the Birds-of-Paradise Project, Election Notes and Our Holiday Schedule https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448732076970-STFOUETWNSYKSEZNWWF6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Fox Cam, the Birds-of-Paradise Project, Election Notes and Our Holiday Schedule We had scores of entries to sort through. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448732115055-QAN9X0Z3SHH9OBUME3K0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Fox Cam, the Birds-of-Paradise Project, Election Notes and Our Holiday Schedule https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448732142855-73P3F7K92YB8V7HSDH16/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Fox Cam, the Birds-of-Paradise Project, Election Notes and Our Holiday Schedule The bio-diversity hotspot map at The Naturalist’s Notebook. It’ll be there for you to study if you stop in on November 23 or 24. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448732253672-4DG6XCPI3D4VQADDMJPO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Fox Cam, the Birds-of-Paradise Project, Election Notes and Our Holiday Schedule Charles-Darwin-Quotes-3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448732279270-4BG022GCC1ERXX3O9LHZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Fox Cam, the Birds-of-Paradise Project, Election Notes and Our Holiday Schedule Pamelia and I stopped by the home of noted painter Eric Hopkins recently. His work is fantastic…and so is his palette. It’s an artwork in itself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448732310443-XOVBJW5SG1FVHZX57Z4B/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Fox Cam, the Birds-of-Paradise Project, Election Notes and Our Holiday Schedule Another shot of Eric’s working tools. Very global, don’t you think? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448732346796-IUJO55MPOQM9MP6IAU45/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Fox Cam, the Birds-of-Paradise Project, Election Notes and Our Holiday Schedule Can you guess the answer? https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/greetings-from-russia-and-the-black-sea monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448732478979-ZKG9OYQ73CW9WU1CH0TC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Greetings from Russia and the Black Sea This is the Black Sea as it looks just a couple of hundred yards from the edge of a coastal cluster of Olympic venues that will host hockey, curling and all forms of skating during the Sochi Winter Games. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448732503779-C55X1ELQK41SSX46I2G1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Greetings from Russia and the Black Sea Pamelia took this shot as we neared Sochi after a two-hour flight from Moscow. Those are the Caucasus Mountains rising behind the city. Sochi bills itself as the world’s longest city—it runs for 145 kilometers (90 miles) along the Black Sea—and the coastal Olympic complex in the previous photo is about 25 miles south of downtown. Basically, the entire Olympics will take place either south or inland (up the mountains) from the core of the city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448732534801-EFUCDM8SBPWABW6VCALV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Greetings from Russia and the Black Sea This sculpture of Black Sea dolphins sits near the Sochi airport entrance. A dolphin was one of the Olympic mascot candidates favored by local residents, but it didn’t make the final cut (a polar bear, a snow leopard and a hare were chosen instead). Environmentalists have been concerned in recent years by the dwindling number of Black Sea bottlenose dolphins, which have fallen victim to poaching and pollution. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448732564941-10I0L06GYHZSW1RMN20W/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Greetings from Russia and the Black Sea Oranges grow plentifully in Sochi’s sub-tropical climate. This is one of the many trees we saw on the ride from the airport into the mountains. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448732596177-3EA4QMC1AVL3ZHZKGOR7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Greetings from Russia and the Black Sea On that same ride, we saw several roadside fruit and vegetable vendors like these. Their crates were especially well stocked with oranges and tomatoes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448732624468-IVY9M6K2K8GK7K52IA9G/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Greetings from Russia and the Black Sea This is Vladimir Putin’s Sochi dacha, adjacent to our hotel grounds. Those grounds, like the dacha, are fenced in and monitored with security cameras. That, alas, makes it impossible for hotel guests to walk out and hike in beautiful Sochi National Park, which surrounds us. Nevertheless, as part of its effort to make the Games environmentally friendly (no small challenge with so much construction going on) the Russian government is introducing new green building standards, minimizing the Games’ carbon footprint and trying to protect or restore wildlife in the national park, including the endangered Persian leopard (also called the Caucasian leopard). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448732651019-8CP6JW8P2NJMPAH05FJE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Greetings from Russia and the Black Sea Those ant-like figures are construction workers on ropes atop the new Bolshoi Ice Dome hockey arena in the coastal Olympic complex. The roof of the dome is like a curved TV screen on which images will be projected during the Olympics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448732686419-YVB8JI4RQ68NGF3KZZKO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Greetings from Russia and the Black Sea The Beijing Olympics had the Water Cube swimming arena; the Sochi Olympics have the Iceberg arena, to be used for figure skating and short-track speedskating. Nearby is a curling arena called the Ice Cube. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448732719765-CS2T3390ML7DZ7LLR56X/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Greetings from Russia and the Black Sea The Causasus Mountains are beautiful (and currently an autumn yellow) but roads and venues are being gouged out for the 2014 Games. Here’s the view from finish line of the Alpine ski courses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448733274931-H8U4YNJW6YD0DCPHI48T/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Greetings from Russia and the Black Sea When we visited the new Olympic bobsled run (which is also surrounded by a messy construction site), the South Korean luge team was training. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448733305100-CA8I67KA3RKZVLU3I0U1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Greetings from Russia and the Black Sea A key infrastructure project is a high-speed train line connecting Sochi and the Olympic venues. It’s being built along a riverbed. The river will need time to recover from the ecological trauma. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448733331032-0ODV0HQOX2XWW0MUAORE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Greetings from Russia and the Black Sea While we received heavy rain all day yesterday, snow fell farther up the mountains, giving Sochi a Winter Olympic look for the first time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448733356167-I64YWDRB2GRSFVVBH434/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Greetings from Russia and the Black Sea A photo for our Russian-linked, cat-loving friend Anne: This kitty patrolled the hotel grounds but stopped to pose for us. I’ve also seen several friendly stray dogs wandering near the Olympic venue sites as if they were part of the construction crews. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/where-were-going monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448733545458-DPE7NDZFYIP6MY5XV0GQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Where We're Going Sochi is that red dot on the coast of the Black Sea. It’s in a sub-tropical zone, as far south as the French Riviera. Which, yes, is a little strange for a Winter Olympic city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448733584460-X1FP5HSYK30OSAYWE57X/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Where We're Going I’ve had this handy volume since my first trip to Russia, in 1986. However, Russian is not an easy language, even with a simple guidebook. For example, the book says that the pronunciation of the Russian term for natural history is yehstyehsthahznahnyeeyehn. That’s how it’s written in the book, with no spaces. Might take me the whole flight over to memorize that one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448733629663-Z1KY2LMN2SZTNE4KJP27/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Where We're Going On our way to climb Dorr Mountain in Acadia National Park late one afternoon, we took a hike past the grassy pond called the Tarn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448733659651-44JERQUAX6UA3XQW6UF0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Where We're Going The view across Mount Desert Island from (almost) the top of Dorr. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448733686134-JMISN8AQ92HLMARPSEAS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Where We're Going On a walk near our house we watched a young porcupine cross the road and head into the woods. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448733727841-MDC1GKASSPBB2195ADKI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Where We're Going In case you didn’t see it on our Facebook page, here’s a shot from the new motion-triggered wildlife camera that Eli, Virginia, Julie and Patrick gave us for letting them live at our house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448733756914-O18MLW1JRPMX99POVPE6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Where We're Going Notebook team member Julie and boyfriend Patrick are driving out to his home state of Minnesota right now. They left us this very cool homemade card (read the teeth!). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448733810428-WK2PHWPKQIVNA3H1TL4Y/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Where We're Going https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/tedx-maine-and-pamelias-big-project monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448734641271-D05HFCL8NOVS5UT8XQ3V/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Interactive Timeline Installation at the TEDx Maine Conference at Bates College Pamelia brought color and 13.7 billion years of history to Bates. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448734668801-8YT49I09KZ77RZQWJS08/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Interactive Timeline Installation at the TEDx Maine Conference at Bates College The Maine TEDx conference took place at Bates College’s Olin Arts Center, which sits by a small campus lake. If you look closely at the brick building on the right, you can see some of the 24 colored displays that made up our interactive trail. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448734695114-9VJVS0SCZBWDI4BDW210/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Interactive Timeline Installation at the TEDx Maine Conference at Bates College The Red Panda-mobile not only held all the parts and pieces of our history-of-the-universe installation, but also bore a Naturalist’s Notebook-worthy message about animals and natural history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448734726321-NN5JPWZ37C52NO7F4T4K/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Interactive Timeline Installation at the TEDx Maine Conference at Bates College One section of the 13.7-billion-year staircase installation at the Notebook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448734751685-UM87ENIGD9F0SPLKVN5G/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Interactive Timeline Installation at the TEDx Maine Conference at Bates College Who was that checking out the 24 display pieces in the works in Leanne’s studio in early October? It was one of several variations of a character that we've named HUEMAN—an embodiment of the 24 colors used to represent the 24 time periods in the history of the universe. You’ll be seeing a lot more of HUEMAN. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448734812426-68S29FO6J9J77WRHQ6IV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Interactive Timeline Installation at the TEDx Maine Conference at Bates College Pamelia designed display pieces that were relatively easy to transport and could be unfolded to stand upright. We kept changing the arrangement of the pieces so that TEDx attendees would have a different experience each time they walked out of the auditorium for a break. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448734943343-32ZMVMHEZYAZBXM2WFSN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Interactive Timeline Installation at the TEDx Maine Conference at Bates College We initially set up the 24 installation pieces on the path that conference-goers would take to the Bates dining hall for lunch. Food for thought? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448734969797-MZQ4WFTLZZXUQ9BC0ZIX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Interactive Timeline Installation at the TEDx Maine Conference at Bates College Each installation piece focused on one time period, in this case the age in which land plants proliferated and the first winged insects appeared. At this station people were invited to make paper-airplane insects to launch at a later station to try to avoid extinction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448735011419-GV4GVVS00SJXCSB6DNP5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Interactive Timeline Installation at the TEDx Maine Conference at Bates College A life-size HUEMAN greeted conference-goers as soon as they stepped outside the arts center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448735039314-3STUMXI489S6Q5UGLIQ3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Interactive Timeline Installation at the TEDx Maine Conference at Bates College For a fun photo station, we hung two canvases on which Virginia had painted color-coded, you-stand-here outlines based on the familiar Ascent of Man image (never mind that the image is somewhat imprecise in evolutionary terms—chimpanzees are our biological cousins, not our ancestors). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448735072755-EJ15QQ9TJ00FFJCYGUEI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Interactive Timeline Installation at the TEDx Maine Conference at Bates College TEDXascentbashi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448735370209-AO0VRMYIY6BASIBRVFWT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Interactive Timeline Installation at the TEDx Maine Conference at Bates College The Naturalist’s Notebok book table offered titles related to the speakers’ talks and Pamelia’s installation as well as a small sampling of the more than 1,000 other books at our shop/exploratorium in Seal Harbor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448735399161-2FSH9NPWRXCZRN5M9XWL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Interactive Timeline Installation at the TEDx Maine Conference at Bates College We brought a little extra DNA along in the Panda-mobile too. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448735437489-BP8PCB44XA16UC4IB13P/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Interactive Timeline Installation at the TEDx Maine Conference at Bates College TEDx attendees took part in honey tasting at the 150-million-year station, which covered the period in which the first flowering plants and bees appeared. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448735476272-PKFY93IGVQXXOFTLJ1L9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Interactive Timeline Installation at the TEDx Maine Conference at Bates College Some TEDx-ers enjoyed sharing a HUEMAN touch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448735513281-BYKR0KJRRHLAWVKS1SVX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Interactive Timeline Installation at the TEDx Maine Conference at Bates College Others created structures from the building blocks of life, represented by Legos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448735542432-XEHEY79T8CVYA40PMPX1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Interactive Timeline Installation at the TEDx Maine Conference at Bates College The HUEMAN skeleton looked splendid inside the art center, hanging out with the Big Bang. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448735575726-N2GUZVNPKHBZZC8BF4PT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Interactive Timeline Installation at the TEDx Maine Conference at Bates College We added one of the chimp illustrations from Jane Goodall Day at the Notebook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448735604425-2H1NASMI7MS7ONL5SEN5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Interactive Timeline Installation at the TEDx Maine Conference at Bates College Not sure if you can read the license plate that, in a strange coincidence, we saw near the Bates campus on earlier trip to the school this fall. It reads ROY G BIV, which as any art student can tell you, is the acronym for the ordered colors of the spectrum, as mentioned above: Red,Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448735741026-R9AC2BGQA9CP6EHOHT0C/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Interactive Timeline Installation at the TEDx Maine Conference at Bates College The mighty Androscoggin River, as seen through the windows at Frontier. The Androscoggin was once so polluted that it inspired then-Maine Senator Edmund Muskie to write the 1972 Clean Water Act. It’s much better now, though—like our installation—it’s still a work in progress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448735768708-NEP4DDR8X8WP9EPYM7BU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Interactive Timeline Installation at the TEDx Maine Conference at Bates College I survived my 10 minutes on stage with the help of lots of photos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448735901191-E456YPIEW1C6HQFMQNIZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Interactive Timeline Installation at the TEDx Maine Conference at Bates College https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448735923574-4P5QJYUTSLCL16U62QHA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Interactive Timeline Installation at the TEDx Maine Conference at Bates College https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/just-a-thought monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448736394801-PZLMAR7N2OB1RR68YQKW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Just a Thought... https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/a-harp-with-no-strings monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448736791272-AZW3K66O7HNYX6EOO50N/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Harp With No Strings Infrared radiation also can create funky photos. This is a shot of my parents taken at the Glasgow Science Centre with a camera that—like night-vision goggles—can detect infrared waves given off by our bodies. Certain snakes can sense the infrared radiation given off by warm-blooded prey, and use that when hunting. The snakes detect the radiation through holes in their faces called pit organs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448736824960-GVVIIFTVOXJVB2289ND5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Harp With No Strings An interactive element of the Handel House museum is its wardrobe. My dad and I tested out replicas of the composer’s wig—reminded me of the mad-scientist wigs we have at the Notebook. Pamelia looked quite dashing in Handel’s blue jacket. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448736853862-0O2KBVDCEORR7FMBU0YM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Harp With No Strings But returning home is always enjoyable too. This was the first Maine sunrise we saw, while driving north from Boston. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448736889123-ZD32ORZ7HCZBYC9GZTI6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Harp With No Strings Back in Maine: A young cormorant at dusk on Saturday on Jordan Pond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448736912931-GA1D5S4B7NAN96EB2601/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Harp With No Strings The Notebook hosted a fun birthday party yesterday for 7-year-old Max and 14 of his friends. The dinosaur cake was an especially big hit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448737011276-72Y7S3TOKW7Q8PRYDX9Y/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Harp With No Strings Here’s a peek inside a brown paper bag full of the dinosaurs and dino bones (carefully planted in advance) that young partygoers dug up on the Seal Harbor beach. Is that a cool party activity, or what? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448737046520-7K7GUWEVUQ0OGTPAG18V/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Harp With No Strings The Mount Desert Island Marathon made its way through Seal Harbor this morning in the cold rain. The runners very much appreciated our yells of encouragement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448737120378-V73YOR1WO3828JCM1FXJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Harp With No Strings No, I am not actually standing on the chair. See next photo… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448738321528-VKDBYDWXU9N49G7YYWUG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Harp With No Strings A camera shoots the image from a spot outside the left edge of this picture, with the legs and the chairback lined up to create the illusion. In our photo, Pamelia stood closer to the camera, by the two chair legs, while I stood on the seat in back, making her appear larger. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448738362707-CO8LHA2256V4NWTSQQCS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Harp With No Strings This explains the science behind it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448738406379-6PRIVKCUUJ4WIAD7U7XP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Harp With No Strings O.K., one FINAL last illusion, again from the Glasgow Science Centre. As you might have guessed, I was lying on the floor when this photo was taken. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/the-isle-of-skye monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448738983810-OKR4FOORHG5RG8AL9X76/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Isle of Skye Our room in a former sea captain’s home offered Pamelia a scenic sill for her art materials. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448739016762-P5XWF2DOTIX7POG6JQXF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Isle of Skye The Isle is rugged, rocky and surprisingly large—about half the size of New York’s Long Island. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448739043182-1XRFHYN3EMI1R7HZ6QW5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Isle of Skye When walking through fields and along the coast, we often had company. Thousands of Highlanders were kicked off their land in the 1700s to make room for sheep. Many of them—the Highlanders, not sheep—were forced to immigrate to Canada, especially Nova Scotia, which still has a significant Gaelic-speaking population. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448739066101-OGU0C3K2Q8GTI73PGCFB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Isle of Skye This mountainous section of Skye, known as the Quiraing, is still geologically shifting and has dramatic features called the Needle, the Table and the Prison. It also had 45 mph winds blowing when we wandered around it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448739087779-MRR765JLLJ70XPQVPXMR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Isle of Skye These gray seals were among the wildlife we spotted. We also saw many hooded crows (which are a mixture of gray and black), a couple of gray herons (similar to the blue heron we see in Maine) and several gannets, along with countless gulls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448739113256-M3MBP6GSJFTPF53H9E1E/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Isle of Skye Lovely grass-rimmed pools like this dotted the edge of the intertidal zone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448739137074-UJO3ZHMVMRU1UOVTW7XF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Isle of Skye Centuries of sheep trails have carved permanent wrinkles into the rounded hills at Fairy Glen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448739161115-AJAM4VOHVVUQHWD8XRM1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Isle of Skye We walked in the footsteps of giants; Skye was once prime dinosaur territory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448739187918-ZA4FSCYX78IEJKP9Z4M8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Isle of Skye The winds at one spot topped 60 mph and nearly blew my dad over. This sign sums it up nicely. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448739210786-WJSZCTSTITDI6T6OQO1A/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Isle of Skye The only blights on the landscape were recent timber-company clear-cuts such as this. The good news is that Britain is now trying to increase its forest cover by planting more native trees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448739249509-OHQGXUCTRKA7V65FVO05/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Isle of Skye Speaks for itself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448739278890-2B8U0O51B03KN0C98GS5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Isle of Skye The fishing village of Portree, in which we stayed. Sad to say, overfishing has taken its toll in Scotland just as it has in the Northeastern U.S. (and virtually everywhere else in the world’s oceans). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448739302308-2S0R87THK91CJAT4860G/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Isle of Skye Sunrise in Portree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448739326893-YJIS7D34ERBONXRGWSK5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Isle of Skye On our way back down through the Highlands we stopped at Loch Ness, where my dad says his camera jammed right when he saw Nessie. You music fans may be amused to know that there’s an annual festival near the lake called Rock Ness. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/illusions-from-scotland monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448739567091-LD1W9Y676FV4WZTQNH1B/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Illusions from Scotland The incredible shrinking Pamelia? No, just an optical illusion created when the two of us stepped into an Ames room in Edinburgh’s Camera Obscura museum. If we could just find enough space to build one of these rooms at The Naturalist’s Notebook, we would. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448739622241-MVWI2X7CH3YXEPKEKCB0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Illusions from Scotland Can you find the hidden tiger in this photo? It’s also a visual trick from the Camera Obscura. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448739650862-02H3NCG9RQLZSF06DO3J/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Illusions from Scotland What’s the old Kipling line about keeping your head when all those around you are losing theirs? Pamelia seems to be keeping her head even after she’s lost it. Don’t worry; she’s fine. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/the-notre-dame-sparrows monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448739851450-Q7AS6KXSB2V58OXMQ6J2/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notre Dame Sparrows https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448739888774-R2VXOLOTRTMM1ODF0NY6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notre Dame Sparrows https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448739912461-NLRUSOXZTE1QWVUZP47Y/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notre Dame Sparrows https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448739933315-TFA0N6DG4PP6XWDS41BK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notre Dame Sparrows https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448739958174-TMG6KJEWTGCZRJWZPF4H/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notre Dame Sparrows https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448740008106-GKJLIRC8WEK6852VE1LP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notre Dame Sparrows https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448740038823-JGT4P3NJBOFXNU30OQFI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notre Dame Sparrows https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/a-notebook-road-trip-begins monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448740271528-CF592JPMKJGDWVL8E3TA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Notebook Road Trip Begins First stop: Concord, the capital of New Hampshire and, if you’re interested in science, home to both the Christa McAuliffe Planetarium (named for the Concord schoolteacher who died in the Challenger space shuttle explosion) and the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center, an air-and-space museum named for McAuliffe and astronaut Alan Shepherd, another New Hampshire native. Pamelia and I were on our way to visit artist, writer and turtle expert David Carroll, who lives north of the city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448740326928-1FBZPI6X68SL4HRUCRF2/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Notebook Road Trip Begins David’s lifelong observation of turtles and wetland environments has brought him worldwide respect, a John Burroughs medal for distinguished natural-history writing, and a McArthur fellowship. Most important, his efforts have helped us understand and learn how to protect turtles, the amazing creatures whose habitats humans continue to destroy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448740375030-AK3OOD7TZBEO41NNVE24/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Notebook Road Trip Begins David and Laurette took us to their detached studio, where we got to see some of their original work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448740411278-F8HZMT4OC2ITTJQW9JPT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Notebook Road Trip Begins IMG_7932 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448740438380-JHC5JRLTF58AVLSOPEMD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Notebook Road Trip Begins Pamelia and David in the studio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448740469262-ADU3SBWQY4VE26QKX7WL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Notebook Road Trip Begins We talked with David and Laurette talked about art, ecology, turtles, David’s McArthur fellowship and much more, including the beautiful wild asters growing in their dooryard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448740496625-MFHVKFTOXZ9L7MUEMEI6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Notebook Road Trip Begins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448740520435-3I39NTMF0CTRPO52W8E7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Notebook Road Trip Begins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448740542029-WLJZOKVXJCZPDQYFCZ4T/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Notebook Road Trip Begins This is Concord’s McAuliffe-Shepherd Discovery Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448740584124-8JS3IC39UASZT1CKTJL5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Notebook Road Trip Begins Here’s the jail cell in which we enjoyed a fine, if confined, dinner in Concord. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448740616079-D5O82SWFYQHBNHUANLFE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Notebook Road Trip Begins https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/loons-and-lead monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448740943042-QTDNXBY02FBCDDOFCDA2/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Loons and Lead Jane Naliboff took this photo on Minnehonk Lake in Mount Vernon, Maine, in early September. The loon’s story soon took a sad turn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448741150966-I6T6KWF64O912LERX2JH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Loons and Lead Jane noticed that the loon’s foot was an odd color (it’s lifted out of the water here and looks reddish rather than black), that the bird was missing some flying feathers, and that its left wing didn’t cover its side. She sent photos to Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, whose biologists said the loon appeared to have a broken wing and could be in danger when the lake froze next winter and it needed to fly elsewhere. Jane contacted a bird-rehabilitation group, Avian Haven, in Freedom, Maine, which sent Shearon Murphy to kayak to the loon and try to help. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448741213385-OS2E6D6XZ7BPJE8A6Z37/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Loons and Lead Shearon paddled to the loon, picked it up (the bird remained calm) and took it to Avian Haven, where Jane says the owners and a vet determined that the wing was all right but that the bird had a lead sinker stuck in its gizzard and had an elevated lead level. Through a procedure called lavage—pouring water into the gizzard—they were able to flush out the sinker. The bird was put on chelation therapy to try to remove some of the lead from its system. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448741291346-1Y804XY4AE9OXBK2IOTL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Loons and Lead John saved this clipping from an old copy of a Maine newspaper, The Quoddy Times. As the caption notes, the raven seems to be trying to get the eagle to fly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448741519224-JIT6L82Y3P5UGCWSDPRP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Loons and Lead The Compass Green team on its visit to The Naturalist’s Notebook last year to give a workshop on bio-intensive agriculture and sustainable food systems. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448741616028-NFEEPZ2BAP1H64DGTQCH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Loons and Lead https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448741642433-TVC5HW7FETFRSQOP8KP6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Loons and Lead Another shot of our white-bloched heterocampa. That was a really huge acorn, but the way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448741677425-TD5LPGDDKWZZ5ITKTV2W/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Loons and Lead https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448741701428-MKL618Q9XAZK7CS6PVQJ/image-asset.gif Blog - Loons and Lead Back to solving our bone mystery. Thanks to Virginia and Eli’s research, we now think that this bone Betsy found on the shore might be the occipital bone of an as yet undetermined animal. The occipital bone is at the back of the skull, and that large hole is where the spinal cord connects to the head. More details as they become available… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448741753817-BIRH4G2CLBY84IYFN5CV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Loons and Lead This has been growing for weeks beneath one of our thistle feeders. At first I thought it might be part of an animal’s tail, ripped off in a vicious turf war. But I think I’ve determined that it’s a fungus called Phycomyces nitens, and though the species hasn’t been that thoroughly studied, it grows on feces. In our case, it has sprouted on the site of droppings of either raccoon, fox, wild turkeys or bear—or all of the above. I read some warnings that its spores might be harmful to humans, so I’m not touching it. Perhaps if I leave it long enough it will grow into Cousin It of Addams Family fame. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448741782268-W2XFIWZHRVKQD00CJHCA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Loons and Lead A Northern goshawk flew in and perched near one of our feeders yesterday, presumably on the hunt. The small birds all flew off, and in time, so did the goshawk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448741815987-C6OAQ1URCG0HMOP76GIT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Loons and Lead Don’t know if you saw this Canon camera ad about the endangered saiga. It ran in National Geographic and deserves highlighting because it’s both beautiful and substantive. Don’t you love the snout of the saiga? I think Eli’s nose is feeling like a saiga schnoz today because of early fall allergies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448741846849-RH8634VZ0X79LL0O4T8R/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Loons and Lead A cuttlefish https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448741870066-GARPXTYNXXXA4XL3AUSJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Loons and Lead The Naturalist’s Notebook late last evening as we did some after-hours work. Eli, Virginia and Julie will continue taking care of business in Seal Harbor when we head off this week to meet with naturalists and artists in New England and then travel to Great Britain for more bloggable adventures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1448741901051-QJYN5MRQVRK8Y6ESBYB8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Loons and Lead The postcard view earlier last evening in Bar Harbor. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/bates-birds-bones-bugs-bats-and-bottle-cap-art monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449186247409-OTODXTMZIWC9JXFCA1JB/ospreybates.jpg Blog - Bates, Birds, Bones, Bugs, Bats and Bottle-Cap Art On our TEDx scouting trip to Bates College, we watched this osprey circle over the duck-filled lake and land high in a white pine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449186304402-KN0L2IBJ7LBC83DMG7SZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Bates, Birds, Bones, Bugs, Bats and Bottle-Cap Art Pamelia and I studied the outdoor amphitheater and Lake Andrews—a small, man-made body that Bates students often call the Puddle—to figure out how best to present the Notebook’s outdoor 13.7-billion-year, history-of-the-universe walk during the TEDx conference in October. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449186359745-0AAO4RQ6KGNKSYCGI08D/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Bates, Birds, Bones, Bugs, Bats and Bottle-Cap Art The quarter-mile walk around the scenic lake took us past not only the osprey but also glowing spider webs, a flock of black ducks, assorted leaf-munching caterpillars and a splendorous mix of trees, grasses and flowering plants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449186431086-JS8O2D947KPTCRW44WGF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Bates, Birds, Bones, Bugs, Bats and Bottle-Cap Art About a dozen of these white hickory tussock moth caterpillars were on the trunk of an oak tree. This type of caterpillar has been growing in number in Maine. Be forewarned if you see one: Touching its hairs can cause an allergic reaction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449186486209-OYM1QKPGCAN8DRDJPKPA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Bates, Birds, Bones, Bugs, Bats and Bottle-Cap Art We should have brought some of our Notebook brain-bogglers to work on at this lakeside sitting spot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449186524427-O1OAQU3X0277BYS1IDL6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Bates, Birds, Bones, Bugs, Bats and Bottle-Cap Art Whether or not you attend the TEDx conference, you should try to take in this show of astrophotography, which will run at Bates through the end of the year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449186565646-5W63273OW1PN1EG8O5VX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Bates, Birds, Bones, Bugs, Bats and Bottle-Cap Art This morning we looked outside at 6:30 and saw a pair of young foxes. We’ve seen fox kits here in mid-September for several years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449186602520-PGYPZNHUC9I7XI53YG0Q/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Bates, Birds, Bones, Bugs, Bats and Bottle-Cap Art Doesn’t this caterpillar look a bit like a hippo? Pamelia and I found it marching across our dirt road. I couldn’t find it in my caterpillar field guide. Any thoughts on what type it is? It has evolved a wonderful camouflage to hide in leaves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449186648621-GPIXWUTCQU7LCX3OWXSL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Bates, Birds, Bones, Bugs, Bats and Bottle-Cap Art A top view of the same caterpillar. The design itself looks like an insect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449186682823-CW47DFOJ4287FCNKGVNR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Bates, Birds, Bones, Bugs, Bats and Bottle-Cap Art We found this beautiful dragonfly on the road. Don’t know what happened to it, but it had expired. Scientists have long studied dragonfly wings for insights into building strong, lightweight, aerodynamic structures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449186724775-VJ8GO3X32SKLIJ0MWFRJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Bates, Birds, Bones, Bugs, Bats and Bottle-Cap Art Cute animal face? No, a bone found on the shore near us by our friend Betsy. What is it? We’re trying to find out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449186761619-25P0H7RB68E430NL0USL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Bates, Birds, Bones, Bugs, Bats and Bottle-Cap Art Here’s a bottom view of the same bone. Or maybe this is the top view. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449186802284-QU18E115T1Q16CYL0U5U/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Bates, Birds, Bones, Bugs, Bats and Bottle-Cap Art Caterpillars have been carving meandering paths on these leaves. Each leaf has a different pattern. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449186832966-LLERCPXILYMWNRMP6X5M/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Bates, Birds, Bones, Bugs, Bats and Bottle-Cap Art The waters at our house were alive with swarming fish yesterday afternoon. We guessed that they might be mackerel, but couldn’t tell. They were literally jumping into the air—perhaps to escape a hungry seal? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449186904239-DRXU9HPPHNY3A3QZD7Q4/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Bates, Birds, Bones, Bugs, Bats and Bottle-Cap Art Bats leaving Bracken Cave in Texas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449186943288-DE2HG1YQ7H1OXJ6ZXR0U/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Bates, Birds, Bones, Bugs, Bats and Bottle-Cap Art We saw this creature at the side of the road. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/the-night-the-ocean-twinkled monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449528887417-0ZSYVD2U8VLX26FEHY5U/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Night the Ocean Twinkled My camera wasn’t light-sensitive enough to take a usable photo of the glowing phytoplankton along our shore last night, but this shot gives you an idea of the show we witnessed every time we stepped into the water or on a patch of seaweed. It was like an aerial view of city lights. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449528935238-LXKHWETP52RGBB44IN88/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Night the Ocean Twinkled Two of our night explorers, Lisa and Pamelia, illuminated by flashlight, not phytoplankton. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449528966941-6BWIGIW5P93YQGJBU4PV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Night the Ocean Twinkled This is a more extreme illustration of phytoplankton bioluminescence, photographed along the New Jersey coast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449529056599-08BS6OQAYHO6459ZYIAF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Night the Ocean Twinkled What is this two-foot-long thing? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449529096704-O8VNG6P3R1QL43UATEUX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Night the Ocean Twinkled This is what the eggs will become when they hatch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449529157510-DO5U9AM3U60VEOB9KZAN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Night the Ocean Twinkled https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449529290970-XN6MA1MPB83XW1N4745U/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Night the Ocean Twinkled https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449529353721-1W9J68EVV1W683W9WSX5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Night the Ocean Twinkled As I’ve noted before, the Notebook deck attracts many insect specimens. In trying to figure out what type of caterpillar this is, I should have first asked myself why the caterpillar was on the deck. The answer was the large ash tree that grows up through the deck. This is a banded tussock moth caterpillar, which likes to feed on ash leaves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449529377876-5EORBK2NVNXG3OXFJZ6R/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Night the Ocean Twinkled The caterpillar will metamorphose into this—a banded tussock moth, sometimes called a pale tiger moth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449529401299-LMYS08KYJ7ZYTS94O998/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Night the Ocean Twinkled I meant to put in this in an earlier post, but here’s a shot of a Northern saw-whet owl that’s being rehabbed at the Birdsacre sanctuary in Ellsworth. He’s only eight inches tall. Birdsacre is a wonderful oasis of nature in an area that has been rapidly getting paved over. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449529425363-EWGYXZXQMCXGJTXOAIRW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Night the Ocean Twinkled These clouds at our house—which you may have seen on our Facebook page—are a type called undulatus, because of their undulating, wave-like appearance. They form when the air above and below the cloud layer is moving at different speeds or in different directions. I’ve mentioned this before, but you ought to pick up a copy of The Cloud Collector’s Handbook if you’d like to better understand what you see when you look at the sky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449529457892-KOCVL51C7M8FRUWIJ42W/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Night the Ocean Twinkled We hosted a signing for the new book Loupette and the Moon, by Nancy Andrews (far left, in the background), and drew a rapt audience. Besides teaching at College of the Atlantic, Nancy is working on a number of new creative projects, including a feature film, another book and an international show combining art and medical issues. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449529645128-BGNO5TK8J90IHQM10VTN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Night the Ocean Twinkled The signing also drew a canine crowd, including this seven-and-a-half-week-old puppy named Max. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449529667245-6M2KZRF7A7UVXJKOT5VH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Night the Ocean Twinkled Bashi, Eli and Virginia’s five-month-old puppy, remains the chief resident of the Notebook deck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449529721138-KRYHVKKOTK36C04FYE0Y/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Night the Ocean Twinkled blueberrytop https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/what-a-week monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449530066420-FGB8QMXHJZQVLN7YDWSW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What a Week A young-looking crow was perched along the Shore Path in Bar Harbor late one afternoon this week as Pamelia and I took a break from Notebook activities to rendezvous with a writer/educator/hiker with whom we hope to start collaborating. Those are a few of the Porcupine Islands in the distance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449530110407-PK1EGZFSJIQ1Q37U9QQS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What a Week During a hike before his Naturalist’s Notebook-arranged talk at Schoodic, renowned naturalist and writer Bernd Heinrich (right, with graduate student and Notebook collaborator Luka Negoita) found an ichneumon wasp. Bernd’s father was the world’s foremost expert on ichneumons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449530179840-M4RCX7LWOE349PKI748M/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What a Week Here’s a closer look at the ichneumon, of which there are thousands of types. They are parasitic wasps that lay their eggs inside other insects. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449530215377-DIFE5UV86WAFIG3ZH8K2/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What a Week Bernd’s talk at the Schoodic Education and Research Center (SERC) Institute drew a full house. Yes, that’s Bernd’s head popping out of the beaver lodge in the slide. He’ll go anywhere to learn how nature works. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449530236225-XKSZHMYOHUQXX5WR92OS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What a Week This porcupine was hanging around outside the SERC auditorium. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449530276294-YZB80T1QLG2D6P95YHET/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What a Week Before our Schoodic hike, we stopped at the Birdsacre sanctuary in Ellsworth, where these two abandoned baby bluebirds were among the avian creatures being cared for. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449530304073-EA7XJKCGBW9NW4LPLZAR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What a Week Here’s a portion of the group that took part in a Notebook bird walk and talk, led by ornithologist Jeff Wells, senior scientist for the International Boreal Conservation Campaign and author of the new book Maine’s Favorite Birds. We’re looking at large seabirds called Northern gannets flying over Seal Harbor. In a short walk through woods, park and shoreline within a quarter-mile of the Notebook, we saw and/or heard these species: goldfinch, chickadee, crow, mourning dove, herring gull, dark-eyed junco, black-and-white warbler, black-throated green warbler, redstart, Northern gannet, laughing gull, cedar waxwing, catbird, blue jay, great black-backed gull, double-crested cormorant and song sparrow. And we weren’t even looking during the prime birding hours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449530332606-QFQED3KBKB8FEQDG5P7U/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What a Week We held a dragonfly-themed science-art-and-dance event on the Notebook deck with top Broadway dancers Elizabeth Parkinson and Scott Wise. It was a blast. Here are some of the clothespin dragonflies people made. The idea for these pins came from Elizabeth and Scott’s son, James, age 7. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449530368846-GOSGUWZ7LAR7YVBHW1B9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What a Week Scott and Elizabeth had fun visiting Hueman, our 13.7-billion-year, color-coded—dare I say walking and talking?—timeline of the history of the universe . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449530390459-Z1ZRK9KT5CVH48ZB8L9T/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What a Week Here is one of the many beautiful pieces created by participants in the first of our two encaustic-painting workshops, led by Dina Helal of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. I’ll tell and show you more about the ancient technique of encaustic in a post soon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449530426305-PAUO0UBP02016ZRAEOLI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What a Week Three-time Olympic runner Lynn Jennings gave a fascinating Notebook talk on the Seal Harbor green about her career, the Olympics and running. Among the crowd was a group of young YMCA runners for whom Lynn’s tale of perseverance was especially inspiring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449530451377-KJ7GDAAUV6R760XQXZDC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What a Week Lynn brought along her 1992 Olympic bronze medal, which she won in the 10,000 meters. I gave the young YMCA runners paper and pencils so they could do rubbings of it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449530480925-7VHK7HW1UPMHB6MHMBDS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What a Week Two of our three high-school interns, Anthea and Melanie, have been painting this Moon surface on canvas stretched across the floor of the garage at our house. It isn’t finished yet, but it will become part of a larger installation that you’ll get to see in the Notebook in 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449530502029-52DD0JHNZH7RP25WSZHI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What a Week We began creating a Moon-rock installation on the deck at the Notebook and, like the late Neil Armstrong, left behind our lunar footprints. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449530550335-9ED0YM1JPIBAL11HRXOE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What a Week Two of our three Moon-makers—high-school interns David and Anthea—shared a moment of paper-mache lunar lunacy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449530592843-MFJT1TCBOK1M29BFF54H/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What a Week Melanie and Anthea also have been working on a solar installation for next year. In the background of this photo, Pamelia is talking with Adam Burk, the executive director of TEDxDirigo, the organization that runs the smart-idea-filled TEDx talks in Maine. We are going to prepare an interactive outdoor exhibit for the TEDx event to be held at Bates College in October. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449530618288-JT9PWJ27KOMKZXPAA1LA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What a Week We have a new honey-tasting tournament champion! In my absence, Haley set up this year’s Sweet 16 event, which had a Southwestern flavor—Arizona mesquite, to be exact. Our three previous winners were Washington State fireweed, Maine wild raspberry and Oregon wild red huckleberry. Among the honeys that competed in this year’s event (but lost) was one from Prince Charles’s hives in England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449530661836-HBFIYK9PGX1S197LZCXQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What a Week Lucy Sisman of wwword.com (a wonderful website that describes itself as a home for readers, writers, illiterates, browsers, time-wasters, mavens and bores–and all who use, abuse, love and hate the English language) stopped in at the Notebook to interview Pamelia and me. We had a delightful talk. I highly recommend that you visit Lucy’s site. A reporter from the Mount Desert Islander came by to interview us later in the week. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449530686424-X7KEXEEKB9NKFBGHGX8G/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What a Week I was surprised (though not really) to find out that Sarah, one of the Notebook’s youngest friends and collaborators, has gotten a lobstering license. She pulled this 30-inch, nine-pound lobster out of one of her traps.It was WAY too big to keep; Maine is a leader in protecting larger, older lobsters because they are the best breeders (and, after all, have earned special treatment after surviving in the ocean for decades!). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449530714016-DVDRXQ0P6200FVTF839E/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What a Week That’s a heck of a claw. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449530738311-PC8CPNY9P7SFGFY3GUNP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What a Week One more bird note: When dancers Scott and Elizabeth returned home to Connecticut, they found a trio of Muscovy ducks awaiting them. Muscovies are native to Mexico and Central and South America, but wild colonies of them have moved up into the U.S. They’re large birds; some weigh as much as 15 pounds. No one knows why they have a name that suggest they’re from Moscow. (Suggestions welcome.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449530758658-73ZD6AKCIDLI58SSVG6L/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What a Week Nancy Andrews’s new book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449530797451-M3CY1Z7QN7T9TJX01QZK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What a Week Last thought of the day, after looking out at the water from our house: It’s great to be back home in Maine. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/a-q-and-a-with-bernd-heinrich monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449531121827-CZYH3Y1QTGS7KNF1SYWW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Q-and-A with Bernd Heinrich Bernd, outside the detached studio/office at his home in Burlington, with a quick raven drawing he did for us to use in a how-to-draw-a-raven display at The Naturalist’s Notebook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449531177279-GFZC7YFIMQFU5TEOVKB5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Q-and-A with Bernd Heinrich https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449531204591-NXK6FMFIV5JNQ43AJOOU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Q-and-A with Bernd Heinrich https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449531222815-XAMOKZJAYZ9VR4AYU331/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Q-and-A with Bernd Heinrich https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449531242900-KWSXNKWNY09YAMRLKZ0R/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Q-and-A with Bernd Heinrich https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449531280166-G38AM02IRWDGNHIOOZPI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Q-and-A with Bernd Heinrich https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449531296366-LDPRD8D024ETXFFGDSFB/thenestingseason.jpeg Blog - A Q-and-A with Bernd Heinrich https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449531315976-JPMZ0OS46BZA8ZA1UFCX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Q-and-A with Bernd Heinrich https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449531333455-3PW9PAOZ1XAHM7ST887K/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Q-and-A with Bernd Heinrich https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449531352959-1PJCZGX21UGS1PSIMHPD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Q-and-A with Bernd Heinrich https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449531378746-Q58TJBUPA659CE0O98J1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Q-and-A with Bernd Heinrich https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/up-next-a-bird-walk-and-talk-with-jeff-wells monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449531586056-XO3VUKZB22TV6RQHB15Z/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Up Next: A Bird Walk and Talk with Jeff Wells Allison and Jeff Wells https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449531649039-VB3V6M4QZ7FG2W510VIP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Up Next: A Bird Walk and Talk with Jeff Wells https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/next-up-big-bang-week monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449617248269-WF7YJMA5VGCEWUIJEOX0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Next Up: Big Bang Week Olympic closing ceremony fireworks as seen from our office at the main press center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449617295066-VJKZHDFKMVOUAG1IMRDE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Next Up: Big Bang Week One of the many treasures at the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, whose engravings of the same words in multiple scripts were a key to the translation of hieroglyphics. It was discovered by Napoleon’s troops near Alexandria, Egypt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449617494872-WMGSX6PXFA93NZHFG8A5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Next Up: Big Bang Week This Roman copy of a Greek bronze sits beneath the museum’s grand dome. The sculpture was missing its head when it was found, so a head from a different statue was put onto it. The whole subject of artistic originals, copies and doctored copies is fascinating. I learned this week that John Keats was inspired to write his famous Ode on a Grecian Urn after seeing a Wedgwood copy of an urn…at the British Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449617540155-969DTHUBP0YI56J7GY3Y/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Next Up: Big Bang Week The museum’s cafe has food-related Shakespearean quotations on the walls. This one conveys a particularly visual image that might be fun for kids to draw. Lightning-bolt-shaped French fries? Mashed-potato fog? Tater-tot hailstones? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449617637818-R6PJ2NEGJL7LO2DFGXHG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Next Up: Big Bang Week Never too early to start looking ahead to the Sochi Winter Olympics, to be held in Russia in February 2014. Pamelia and I will be visiting Sochi this November. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449617733257-K3ZEE5CC8HIXHEE1PZ3E/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Next Up: Big Bang Week Here’s an early look at the Sochi 2014 Olympic mascots. At least they’re based on real animals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449617893267-JH08B4OTIGLOB89O3BP3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Next Up: Big Bang Week The Sochi Paralympic mascots have a natural twist too. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449617925031-IXENUJBP7XRCEI1GGX00/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Next Up: Big Bang Week The final word, posted on most of the doors here at the press center. When the Olympics are over, they’re over. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/more-olympic-shots monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449618182708-9HEZM7L2O1RAV5P6B0V3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - More Olympic Shots Large medallion embedded in a walkway at the Olympic Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449618220380-8T5J0O0825MDHQMM5SDP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - More Olympic Shots Outside the Olympic field hockey stadium is a mini-field on which kids can learn basics of the game—or just have fun. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449618277850-N0N2NR7VXFSK591BR45W/image-asset.jpeg Blog - More Olympic Shots I saw the South Korean team defeat Japan and then circle the field waving to the crowd. Both teams did, actually, a nice display of sportsmanship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449618367680-3VE7YO8N7S2FWPQLDUI5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - More Olympic Shots I sat behind fans from Australia who were waiting for their team, known as the Hockeyroos, to take the field. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449618393905-AWFLQNEG8KSQVUAIGU6Z/image-asset.jpeg Blog - More Olympic Shots I caught the last two quarters of a Lithuania-France basketball game. This temporary arena will be moved to Glasgow, Scotland, to be used in the 2014 Commonwealth Games and may then be relocated to Rio for the 2016 Olympics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449618425584-CB2ZTZ5FXESLSBKP252E/image-asset.jpeg Blog - More Olympic Shots On a stage in the wildflower-filled Olympic park, that’s Wenlock the mascot entertaining kids. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449618468922-T6D4U4D6D69EVOALFFTY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - More Olympic Shots The Olympic Park is packed these days, with six-figure crowds common. These folks are all watching a giant video screen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449618520614-AQ4NFHNZTRJHRFFJZD8V/image-asset.jpeg Blog - More Olympic Shots The view from my press-section seat on the night Michael Phelps won his final individual-event gold medal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449618543408-09TYIP1TPBB0JGL2VSJ5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - More Olympic Shots This is the cover of the issue we closed on Monday night. We also have done a total of 14 issues of the SI daily app; still have four more of those plus an app commemorative plus one more magazine issue plus a lot of web coverage to go. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449618584625-GJF6YN4FGW7Q36SFT0Q8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - More Olympic Shots An international media group awarded replica Olympic torches to all journalists who have been to at least 10 Games. I failed to pick mine up, but I tested out a colleague’s in our office. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449618624507-QKC02DPUJUKVKOJYCJ6R/image-asset.jpeg Blog - More Olympic Shots An Olympic anti-doping poster, which makes use of a molecular diagram as the O in podium. Can any of you identify the molecule? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449618653752-LNRUKNCZ4ZCZQHWEJGCJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - More Olympic Shots SI’s photographers set up remote-control cameras in many of the venues. This is the device used to control them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449618682217-OS400X1Y91YRX20YB800/image-asset.jpeg Blog - More Olympic Shots Anyone for a bottle of Olympic wine? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449618710428-7CYLJNCSV19U3YAYXK6N/image-asset.jpeg Blog - More Olympic Shots Or a taste of a quite good press center meal? This is pumpkin curry with lentils and apples, and a side order of crushed potatoes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449618777608-DTZGCSPB3B337AIJNBVX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - More Olympic Shots Organizers are selling T-shirts aimed at the 20,000 members of the media (TV people, mostly) here to cover the Games. That’s one of our writers displaying his. If I buy one, I guess I could wrap it around the torch for padding in my suitcase. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/q-and-a-with-olympic-medalist-and-avid-naturalist-lynn-jennings monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449619145986-JFZFSPXMU2S6S85OJBIH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Q-and-A with Olympic Medalist (and Avid Naturalist) Lynn Jennings Lynn (left) in the final of the 10,000 meters at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449619187408-XLUC1DMKHQBMVD3WLNYQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Q-and-A with Olympic Medalist (and Avid Naturalist) Lynn Jennings On the medal stand in Barcelona. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449619244067-Z54Y73TDYFEJ8LXTRZ10/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Q-and-A with Olympic Medalist (and Avid Naturalist) Lynn Jennings After the Barcelona final, with Judi St. Hilaire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449619653598-C661RRF6A7VETX80VLXN/lynnjennings78dartrelaysjoan-826x1024.jpg Blog - Q-and-A with Olympic Medalist (and Avid Naturalist) Lynn Jennings Lynn at 1978 Dartmouth Relays, with future Olympic marathon champion Joan Benoit of Maine two places behind her. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449619333052-J0E5CH5750OTO96ZGGQX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Q-and-A with Olympic Medalist (and Avid Naturalist) Lynn Jennings Lynn winning her third world cross-country title, in 1992. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449619635010-5RKNARWUYDQFMOI3KR6U/lynnjenningslicenseplate-624x1205.jpg Blog - Q-and-A with Olympic Medalist (and Avid Naturalist) Lynn Jennings Guess whose? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449619437434-8WP61CAN6S0HB9190C1E/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Q-and-A with Olympic Medalist (and Avid Naturalist) Lynn Jennings Lynn in a Nike magazine ad with U.S. cross-country great Pat Porter, who was a close friend and kindred spirit of hers. Those of us who knew Pat, a wonderful guy, were shocked and saddened recently by the news that he had died in a plane crash. He was as good a person as he was a runner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449619469334-P0QW9NJD3NEU3CKHWND5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Q-and-A with Olympic Medalist (and Avid Naturalist) Lynn Jennings Lynn with her fellow medalists in Barcelona. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449619499214-80Q9ZY22K8JVNVK7IAZM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Q-and-A with Olympic Medalist (and Avid Naturalist) Lynn Jennings Lynn with Towhee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449619544440-87J3IJ018ED5B9WQJBUC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Q-and-A with Olympic Medalist (and Avid Naturalist) Lynn Jennings Lynn setting a record in the Falmouth road race in 1992. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449619591151-AAHLAYN8AA1SVGIP7M2I/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Q-and-A with Olympic Medalist (and Avid Naturalist) Lynn Jennings Lynn as a high schooler. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/a-walk-in-the-park monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449619924933-WMB2OC7RS4YBD3G696DH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Walk in the Park An early-morning men’s field hockey game was showing on one of the Olympic Park’s video screens, set in front of sloped spectator lawns bordered by flowers and tall grasses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449619962241-9KTKK7RW03M35DERO9IR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Walk in the Park Here’s that area of overlapping colored dots. Kids—and some adults—can’t resist trying to jump from one dot to another of the same color. The surface is made of recycled sneaker soles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449619998219-AW7ZZ1P1SID1JM8FJ0CO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Walk in the Park A home-country fan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449620025543-3Y69NYFW0KKNTE8DJJ57/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Walk in the Park The Olympic Park will become a city park after the Games, and in many spots it already has the feel of one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449620053695-F1G428SBZXUSNQGSZFIY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Walk in the Park The Olympic Park is large—2.5 square kilometers, or 617 acres. Giant maps help visitors find their way around. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449620081193-ZGRSDW4ZB3KLSWCMPFEW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Walk in the Park Estimated walking times help too. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449620110756-1A63JTDPHTYU9ALS8PE1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Walk in the Park That’s the Olympic Aquatics Centre, where Phelps, Lochte and friends are doing a bit of swimming. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449620141121-ZWQL7XLMYJLREJX0SD4F/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Walk in the Park That’s the Olympic Stadium, with the 377-foot-high Orbit sculpture-slash-viewing-tower in the distance. I’m eager for track and field events to start in the stadium later this week. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449620167372-LZX09135K28FNC3R7HPU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Walk in the Park The park has streams, bridges and restored wetlands. The basketball arena is in the distance to the right, with the cycling velodrome to its left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449620196786-602EAH6EDO9M6YHWW7W4/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Walk in the Park That’s where the aroma was coming from. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449620228161-OM7N7JLDJ4JSTHZIO2OG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Walk in the Park No Olympic Park would be an Olympic park if it didn’t have an official-souvenir megastore, but at least this one tries to be green. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/green-olympics monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449622277191-NLNYMEVMCIJDK3XCNN8J/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Green Olympics First, a quick look at the cover of the first issue of our Olympic daily app (called Sports Illustrated Live From London if you’re interested in downloading it from the Apple store). It’s free, and we’re finishing a new issue in time for you to receive it by 8 p.m. each day. We were working on it until the wee hours last night, as we will be doing on issues for the next 16 days (while also covering the Games 24/7 for the SI website and, of course, the weekly magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449622315009-TNFD08AO0CYT979QN9EA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Green Olympics I took this photo of opening ceremony fireworks from our office in the main press center. I liked the reflection of our team (we have more than 50 staffers here) at work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449622346005-R7V2Y4BCXVJPJHRX1JBW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Green Olympics The London organizing committee has worked hard to make these green Games, and that effort has included transforming a former industrial section of East London into the Olympic Park, the most naturally landscaped cluster of venues I’ve seen at a Games. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449622375764-6UIL3KE3ED2BKQYLXKES/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Green Olympics As this sidewalk message notes, the Olympic Stadium is for the birds—and the bats. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449622410150-J603Y2QP8789ER3X8XUK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Green Olympics As suggested by this installation at the press center, there’s a program in place under which ticket-holders can offset the carbon footprint of their trip to the Games. Olympic sponsor BP is underwriting it, and yes, you’re allowed to be cynical about that. Nevertheless, at least it might make more people aware of what the term carbon footprint means. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449622440058-KMQZR6GQXBHTM63MBW7K/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Green Olympics Recycling is another point of emphasis. Here’s a sign from the press-center cafeteria—which, by the way, serves meat and fowl only from animals raised as humanely as possible (short of actually leaving them alive). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449622467848-3L87OTXW5R9595TH84G3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Green Olympics London has become bicycle-crazy. More than 8,000 of these public rent-a-bikes, known as Boris Bikes after mayor Boris Johnson, who has promoted them, are found throughout the city. The recent victory of British rider Bradley Wiggins in the Tour de France has only boosted the number of riders on the streets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449622493520-43Q7VR7RGSP09HKIBKRK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Green Olympics londonpressconftennis https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/off-to-the-london-games monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449707648336-PGUSECF3RNP7KZBHKP4T/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Off to the London Games The British royals greeted my media bus as it made its way along the Thames toward the Olympic Park in East London. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449707685956-4SL1YG8HYE47G7SSHTCQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Off to the London Games These are the Sports Illustrated Olympic pins—in five colors, to match the colors of the Olympic rings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449707728562-AUPURCVI6CZDMVQNQG2S/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Off to the London Games Two of the cheerful volunteers who met us at the airport. The man on the left is an architect who took time off his job to be part of the Olympics; the fellow on the right is a college student on summer break who’s finishing up a degree in political studies. They couldn’t have been nicer or more helpful. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449707810189-GON42P2CKB8A17F3ZQ8X/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Off to the London Games Must be London: As our plane descended into Heathrow, I noticed the Olympic rings mowed into a field. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449707858948-BVVHUHUP58TOBJYIW1YH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Off to the London Games Saw the first of many Olympic billboards. This let’s-rally-behind-the-Games display offered a touch of British humor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449707945334-5NSG30MU5X5GU6JWGZRR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Off to the London Games My press credential gets me free rides on mass transit, and Olympic organizers are encouraging everyone to take the London Express train, which reaches Paddington Station in just 15 minutes. Organizers are trying their best to make these Games environmentally responsible, and maximizing the use of trains and subways isn’t just practical, it’s also green. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449708004097-NG8ET6F59UKRWUZLJY54/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Off to the London Games That’s the Olympic Stadium in the distance, as seen from the bus that takes media to the Olympic Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449708043872-U24U90TOSOXFQ2YJPV0D/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Off to the London Games Flashback: The morning we left Maine, we awoke to see a bald eagle in front of the house making trip after trip to snatch mackerel from the water with his talons. The fish were leaping out of the water and causing the circle of turbulence you see above. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449708079157-VI2F2UZG96HJ4S2TGS7R/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Off to the London Games Had to leave Maine just as the blueberries were getting ripe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449708113282-QKINX8XZXAZTVKTCQ5W1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Off to the London Games Can you guess? https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/its-done monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449708250267-9F1SSSKY02V63DMW0FHA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - It's Done The issue is out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449708287609-KBZA0WD71VQR4JS1LVMJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - It's Done Pamelia asked artist Carolyn Heasly, who hand-makes the greatest wool animals, to create a rhinoceros. We call this one Max, in memory of the rhinoceros highlighted by Mark Carwardine and Stephen Fry in Last Chance to See (background photo). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449708317014-DTUK4SLULEEH259XKBK7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - It's Done This is a bit of digression, but when we met the aforementioned Mark Carwardine, one of Britain’s best-known naturalists, last fall in England, I happened to see this nearby on the side of a panel truck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449708365597-Z8TKG2VBDDNAPT1XFXYR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - It's Done The Notebook’s new button-making operation is a big hit. Come in and try creating your own statement about nature, science, art…or who you think named Mount Desert Island. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449708389961-5LHW3PA1BLOKW5JCQLVL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - It's Done Silk painting on the deck at today’s workshop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449708420037-MNP8K7MF0QIPG26P9YRY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - It's Done Did you know that Winston Churchill loved to paint, and was quite good at it? While in New York I visited artist Margaret Krug, who showed me a copy of this book, which she’d just received as a gift from a friend. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449708450504-RITNP6039IH22G65AYNW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - It's Done Here’s the former prime minister at work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449708475760-DJBLMHKZ601VASGYYEIT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - It's Done Also while still in New York, I saw that Grizzly Bear would be performing at Radio City, across the street from my office. My favorite name of the week, even if its origin has nothing to do with bears. A founding member of the Brooklyn-based indie rock group chose that moniker because it was an ex-boyfriend’s nickname. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449708516496-74V8KTXZH277ENEOHPC8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - It's Done Bushed? I have to admit, the Olympic work-a-thon has worn me down a bit, but not as much as today’s walk seemed to bush Bashi, the puppy who’s living with us (but is Eli and Virginia’s). Being only a few months old, of course, Bashi bounced back in a matter of minutes. She’s become Notebook regular, so come by and visit her too. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/whats-a-dog-for monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449708672468-9AF1PN28D585GKF57NRZ/image-asset.png Blog - What's a Dog For? A Notebook friend who was living in Germany with her parents in 1971 and ’72 and knows about my Olympic involvement sent along a picture of Waldi, the dachshund mascot for the 1972 Munich Olympics. You’ll notice that the colors red and black are missing from Waldi’s striping scheme. That’s because red and black were the colors of the National Socialist party, more commonly known as the Nazis, who didn’t create a cute dog mascot for their 1936 Olympics in Berlin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449708707750-OP9DDONLESAARERYJLIR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What's a Dog For? A new book explores the evolution and history of dogs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449708737260-QLA0KH0ZB3GNX44GU5NH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What's a Dog For? I just got one of these from SI. A BlackBerry, that is, with two capital Bs. Hand-held but not edible. I am perhaps one of the last eight people on Earth never to have had any kind of “smart” phone, but I needed a mobile device with which to communicate while at the London Olympics. How did my new gadget get the name BlackBerry? I wondered. Turns out the name was inspired by the keys of early devices being so tiny that they reminded someone of fruit seeds. A consulting group ran that notion up and down the test-marketing flagpole and eventually took into account the fact that all the early models were black. And so we don’t communicate on StrawBerries or RaspBerries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449708772575-98KSJKVZ67QLDPNX055W/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What's a Dog For? So I’m in New York. I take a walk through our old neighborhood of Greenwich Village and, as so often is the case, a movie’s being shot. Scottish actor James McAvoy (left) is on the sidewalk in front of the Acme restaurant, an old haunt of ours. He’s starring in the film, called The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby—or rather, in two separate full-length films that explore the same story from the perspective of a husband and a wife, called The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: His and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Hers. I don’t think that either has a naturalist angle, but both sound artistically intriguing. And I like the Beatles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449708802578-1A18BVV809OFIJ6LWSQ6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What's a Dog For? I’m walking around New York, why not photograph the extinct bird I come across? For the first time since our visit to the Oxford natural history museum last fall, I encountered a dodo, this one hanging out in a store window. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449708827976-UDD9WJ8P1DISH60N68XZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What's a Dog For? In Central Park I stopped by The Pond, a serene spot made famous (sort of) by Holden Caulfield, who stops here in The Catcher In the Rye and asks where the ducks go in the winter. They stick around, mostly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449708857114-IUK8CUGCAOOPS91MTPPB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What's a Dog For? A guide was leading a nature tour by The Pond, perhaps headed for the nearby Hallett Nature Sanctuary, one of the park’s hidden gems. Here he was identifying a dogwood tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449708880564-HCDQ4HKPW67AU9009IY2/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What's a Dog For? A gray catbird was hopping around under a few park benches. I didn’t get to hear any of its vocalizations and I couldn’t see the rusty patch under its tail, but it was fun to watch it mingling with similarly scavenging sparrows.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449708903383-DG2S0QMQPZIH02LDYV9F/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What's a Dog For? This unusual piece of public art sits just outside Central Park, near the corner of Fifth Avenue and 60th St. It’s by Paola Pivi, an Italian-born multimedia artist who now lives in Anchorage, Alaska, and it is a six-seat Piper Seneca airplane that has been modified so that it can rotate, end over end, while attached to upright braces by its wingtips. It was inspired by a story about three modern art pioneers, Constantin Brancusi, Marcel Duchamp and Fernand Leger, who were amazed by what they saw at the 1912 Paris Air Show. The motor-driven piece flips over and over is aptly called How I Roll. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/a-tree-grows-in-manhattan-but-what-kind monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449709022872-47KIUMIMQIZEDKIB24UK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Tree Grows in Manhattan (But What Kind?) Shade was in high demand in today’s 97-degree heat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449709047997-7W6MLTV7DHMD3865AT8R/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Tree Grows in Manhattan (But What Kind?) Honey locust leaves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449709105814-D07PC1JOIKPTJXXH56N1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Tree Grows in Manhattan (But What Kind?) Ah, a taste of home. This was the scene looking out from nearby Bar Harbor the other evening. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449709130232-9OSL1KON49U9EQ966UTC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Tree Grows in Manhattan (But What Kind?) Perhaps you’ve heard the news that the U.S. Olympic men’s basketball team gathered for the first time this week to start preparing for the London Games. This is the temporary arena in which LeBron, Kobe and the gang will play their first-round Olympic games (took the photo when I visited last fall). A green-designed structure, the arena is made mostly of recyclable materials, and after the Olympics end it will be dismantled and either recycled or rebuilt elsewhere. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/the-tarn-and-the-office monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449709553052-OC1BU6E1MAAYQZPAS0SN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Tarn and the Office The scene when we stopped a few evenings ago at the Tarn, a grassy pond that fills a glacial depression in Acadia National Park. The frogs were croaking in basso profundo unison as the sun set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449709674658-O1VO8V48ID7L2OH2WVIL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Tarn and the Office The Notebook’s New York office? Well, sort of, though from this 31st-floor eagle’s nest the only species I’m studying right now is Olympians. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449709747238-P53CGH87NMD0DTWI804R/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Tarn and the Office Stoopendous! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449709772094-7I4EALKULM7UBM0TH6LD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Tarn and the Office The stairmaster! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449709822956-77CLHEY5XPMR6HFKPA6B/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Tarn and the Office turtlecross https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/building-a-better-robot-a-guest-blog-by-david-eacho monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449709990071-B45YY9221YJM1PGEHR3Y/image-asset.png Blog - Building a Better Robot: A Guest Blog By David Eacho David (far left) and his robotics team. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449710024742-9BBN2JFN2F3PIIL0D5QW/image-asset.png Blog - Building a Better Robot: A Guest Blog By David Eacho More of the gang in action. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449710073154-SD28C20GZ1MJCJKMU4GO/robotics-3.png Blog - Building a Better Robot: A Guest Blog By David Eacho A scene from the competition in St. Louis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449710141636-3ERZFVWPCSD0A08145JR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Building a Better Robot: A Guest Blog By David Eacho Note the skull image right behind the head. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/the-peanut-butter-jar-and-the-skunk monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449710304792-P1GNNJNA6ERWGTV5CKOT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Peanut Butter Jar and the Skunk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449710338063-FSC6483MLXV91TCNIQCN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Peanut Butter Jar and the Skunk Can you spot the baby woodcock in the leaves? As Pat says, it’s harder than Where’s Waldo? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449710365511-JBJKWQB23NDCZOZUQ3A1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Peanut Butter Jar and the Skunk Here’s a shot Pat took when he found the young woodcock. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449710390844-0NS3778JG3GJ7ZLBZITR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Peanut Butter Jar and the Skunk Here’s Pat with a type of shorebird called a dunlin. He caught it while helping a friend on a research project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449710445750-CPGJSDSMXY8C51XRGZE9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Peanut Butter Jar and the Skunk Here’s an outside shot of the new 2012 Notebook. At the suggestion of Pamelia (left), Haley planted our boxes in colors that matched the order of the visible spectrum. Just remember Roy G. Biv—red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449710503930-MG34MAC29XGXZ64Q65CL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Peanut Butter Jar and the Skunk Visitors grab the mallets and tap out color-coded music on the glockenspiel—a test of their brains’ ability to read color and use it to guide their hands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449710532803-BEF8FLBBEQXCPY0PI125/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Peanut Butter Jar and the Skunk A young maestro! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449710567171-O28Z5W922RFCBJJ8OYGL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Peanut Butter Jar and the Skunk https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/a-new-season-begins monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449710651853-DN8SKH1JJ0UJK0ZI9M8T/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A New Season Begins Eli getting the front chalkboard ready. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449710681018-36UI80YPGC1X1Q8PB4PH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A New Season Begins We couldn’t quite fit an 80-foot blue whale skeleton inside the building, but we’re thrilled to have a harbor porpoise, on loan from Allied Whale. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449710732981-EOT18OIEN8DKN40DA6F1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A New Season Begins Our new egg-laying chicken, which clucks when it plunks an egg into the dish. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449710758142-JDXM7TLOWXX9B5A6QQ2J/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A New Season Begins Millie the milkable cow is back, along with our spin-the-wheel, answer-the-questions Farm Game. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449710788131-60QC8N9UERGV6BQZ1D2S/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A New Season Begins Some early visitors, explorers and customers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449710813675-QT0CXFF1QX8PEU69N7IB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A New Season Begins A portion of our Bernd Heinrich art installation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449710839528-2VYWDUKJBFS06IQMADGT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A New Season Begins Tigers are but one of the endangered species we highlight in shop-and-think displays. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449710863054-H7GOP8FAVTW5FIDKXTLR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A New Season Begins Artists will find much to like. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449710886000-YRNFUMYZTZB6OBP8TR8J/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A New Season Begins Pick up your bird checklist and try to find the 45 species we’ve perched throughout our three floors. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/spaceship-clouds-and-other-sightings monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449710977574-J3FHJ47K3JG8N5WYJRQE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Spaceship Clouds (And Other Sightings) Today’s 6 a.m. sky greeted us with a pair of oddly tilted, flying-saucer-shaped dark clouds that appeared to be swooping in for a landing. Or maybe I was just groggy from working at the Notebook until 12:30 in the morning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449711006765-9WIDNU2VX5XEKA404FLQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Spaceship Clouds (And Other Sightings) We witnessed a birdseed showdown between an unhappy squirrel and a somewhat belligerent woodchuck. The squirrel had reinforcements—two of its kind showed up to help pester the woodchuck—but the big guy (or girl) wouldn’t budge from under the feeder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449711046821-ACK9UNGC97D60A250HTB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Spaceship Clouds (And Other Sightings) When this seed-gobbler showed up, Pamelia I asked each other, How close can you safely get to a skunk? We snuck up with our camera but stayed at least 40 feet away. I’ve since read that skunks can spray about three meters, or roughly 10 feet…depending on the wind. I also learned that skunks are no longer considered part of the weasel family but instead have their own family, made up only of skunks and animals called stink badgers. Wouldn’t the latter be a great name for an intramural flag-football team at the University of Wisconsin? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449711074168-CXNDXWZCSPB0C8Q6KOPU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Spaceship Clouds (And Other Sightings) O.K., you knew I had to show you a stink badger, right? These animals live only in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines and they produce a foul emission from their anal glands. DNA evidence shows that they and the skunks we know went their separate evolutionary ways from a common ancestor about 20 million years ago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449711104385-WA7F188QZB2I7AFJIG62/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Spaceship Clouds (And Other Sightings) When we got home one night, someone had left in our mailbox a bird’s nest inside a cardboard carton. This sort of thing didn’t happen before we started the Notebook, but nowadays people bring us squirrel sculls, dead beetles, you name it. And we love it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449711163478-GU0J73OMTAPM99JP3W1I/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Spaceship Clouds (And Other Sightings) Where is this lovely, lens-like molecule floating around? This year’s Notebook, of course. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449711190798-MEVW9YIR8WNH1H8GBZWJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Spaceship Clouds (And Other Sightings) Pamelia and I took time for a walk and came across this two-toned lupine. Our part of Maine is filled with lupines right now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449711215911-3DASABDYO4Q16ZLIEUSO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Spaceship Clouds (And Other Sightings) As I said, lupines are in profusion around here. The flowers were given the name lupine—from the Latin word for wolf—because they are invasive and, in the words of one source, can ravage the land on which they grow. In a lovely way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449711238069-9Q5M90AWHV5A601R23K4/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Spaceship Clouds (And Other Sightings) We saw this raptor during a walk but haven’t definitively identified it. Because of its coloration and a white stripe across the top of its tail (not visible in this shot), I think it could be a Northern harrier, a species Pamelia and I haven’t seen here before. But I could be way off. Any thoughts? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1449711283187-UHMK9ZG9YMKR92JR1KSN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Spaceship Clouds (And Other Sightings) Can you guess? https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/eye-pod-and-egg-laying-turtles monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450027542451-IWUS8RXAGSM31NJGM8BK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Eye Pod and Egg-Laying Turtles This was the mysterious pod we found. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450027581076-2V19PGW2ZKANC7EVZ0X4/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Eye Pod and Egg-Laying Turtles This is what we saw when we peeked inside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450027655544-N1JA00778PHO6GXTD81I/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Eye Pod and Egg-Laying Turtles One type of gall wasp. There are more than 800 species of them in North America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450027801311-PI1JS4KQC054OAPG7IAH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Eye Pod and Egg-Laying Turtles The three turtles had dug holes in which to lay their eggs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450027848426-Z3QIIEB395Z7QTPR2PPU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Eye Pod and Egg-Laying Turtles They were perilously close to the road. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450027889038-FHIYV3O1PNT3A4ZP5D6O/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Eye Pod and Egg-Laying Turtles Pamelia estimated that the turtles’ shells were between 10 and 12 inches long. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450027913299-MW1URFGB2C5WDZCVPZPF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Eye Pod and Egg-Laying Turtles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450027933877-6850Z65J9IC5BPBZA0RO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Eye Pod and Egg-Laying Turtles archiecarr https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450027968072-N6CQF2SYA7HYHCBUONCZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Eye Pod and Egg-Laying Turtles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450028007433-5T9HHWFU959RHFR2DOEK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Eye Pod and Egg-Laying Turtles Can you guess which bird made this? https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/binocular-bird-olympic-fish-debuting-dog monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450030291126-GU7FO7VJA27DAMH9RGE8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Binocular Bird, Olympic Fish, Debuting Dog Birds have sharp vision, but this hermit warbler seemed eager to try out the binoculars while hitching a ride recently on a boat off the Southern California coast with Notebook correspondent Kathy Weathers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450030322221-H0TANRSNOTACR1RDXBUA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Binocular Bird, Olympic Fish, Debuting Dog A clearer shot of the hermit warbler, a species that tends to live in the tops of the West Coast’s tallest trees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450030383977-M07GAO5M9DP7KYDFHHCZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Binocular Bird, Olympic Fish, Debuting Dog Kathy spotted this gull devouring a sea star near Bar Island off Bar Harbor here in Maine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450030417437-V4NKBQ7QE9JFXM1DC60Q/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Binocular Bird, Olympic Fish, Debuting Dog Lava flow? No, a tree that has grown around a fence outside the Redwood Library and Athenaeum in Newport, Rhode Island, where Kathy saw and photographed it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450030472895-CPNZSNDOVYCT4NC5D3ZP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Binocular Bird, Olympic Fish, Debuting Dog Kathy also photographed another fence-swallowing display by a different tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450030512191-S3NL24WZKQ4TZS3ENF6Q/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Binocular Bird, Olympic Fish, Debuting Dog Puppy in the house! Virginia brought in Bashi, the Australian shepherd pup that she and Eli adopted over the weekend. You’ll be seeing lots of Bashi (and Virginia and Eli) at the Notebook this year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450030621845-9FGRA1DY7RP1G3VK7VH4/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Binocular Bird, Olympic Fish, Debuting Dog The spectral stoop at the Notebook is ready. Here Julie is adding a coat of polyurethane to complete Eli’s brilliant idea. It has been fascinating to watch the reaction of passers-by to this work of art—drivers have even turned their cars around just to make sure they saw what they think they saw. Just wait until they see what’s inside the Notebook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450030762755-MTUE8HMF6H56LWS5GN4A/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Binocular Bird, Olympic Fish, Debuting Dog Eli took a celebratory first leap onto the finished stoop, with the puppy ready to follow him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450030846221-EM8SSF94AG8DEN7W5SN6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Binocular Bird, Olympic Fish, Debuting Dog Haley is designing our flower boxes, which also will highlight colors in the order of the spectrum as part of a much broader project Pamelia has created. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450030937498-KDVCSITGQWN0ZZ7UF1WA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Binocular Bird, Olympic Fish, Debuting Dog The flowers include a gazania with a two-toned blossom. I’d never heard of a gazania, but it’s a member of the aster family and is native to South Africa. It’s sometimes called the African daisy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450031018935-410XTNMLTHDAGJ1DZ7E5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Binocular Bird, Olympic Fish, Debuting Dog Luka and Philip Walter traveled the Romanian countryside collecting and documenting old knowledge—about plants and many other things—that is in danger of being lost because of modernization. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450031056392-S0V17SH5U2JFW0FC0DS6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Binocular Bird, Olympic Fish, Debuting Dog Robert Krulwich at the COA graduation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450031139456-28R44E5JR8TYFW0J8QZM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Binocular Bird, Olympic Fish, Debuting Dog The $421 million aquatics center was designed by Iraqi-born architect Zaha Hadid (a woman) and sits near the Olympic stadium and the velodrome. This is what the place looked like last fall when I and other international journalists toured it and other London Olympic venues. One woman reporter in our group dipped her finger in the diving pool (the pool in back) before being scolded. In case you’re wondering what Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte and other swimming stars will feel when they dive in, the water temperature of the pool will be kept at 78.8 degrees Fahrenheit (26 degrees Celsius) for competition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450031178425-BRQGOFPL31XHQ17BTMLO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Binocular Bird, Olympic Fish, Debuting Dog Maine. Compass Harbor, to be exact, as it looked when Pamelia and I took a short walk there on our way home the other night. Just another reason why Maine’s promotes itself with the slogan The Way Life Should Be. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450031226254-ZXZWDHY5LJ9GTRXYZC7O/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Binocular Bird, Olympic Fish, Debuting Dog Clouds at Compass Harbor. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/the-wildflower-detective monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450033443214-8HWC58APR73SXICEOXU4/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Wildflower Detective Here’s some blue-eyed grass that Caitlin photographed a couple of weeks ago on Mount Desert Island. It’s part of the iris family and not a true grass. If you like blue-eyed grass, check out this blog post by one of Caitlin’s former classmates: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450033538910-FQBZFVLFMDL3VQMODQPH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Wildflower Detective Here’s Caitlin, enjoying the Maine coast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450033572395-T3KCWU1DPYMO50MXA2IK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Wildflower Detective Caitlin’s wildflower walks led her to these pink lady’s slippers. They’re a type of orchid and can live to be 20 years old if not eaten by deer (who love them) or over-picked by humans (who sometimes wipe them out). How is climate change affecting lady’s slippers? Caitlin is trying to find out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450033610818-304VXN562XWYZK1XJTMF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Wildflower Detective This is Labrador tea, part of the heath family. As the name suggests, its leaves can be brewed into herbal tea; if kept in a closet or drawer, they also can keep moths away from clothing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450033640761-2P74BB13NHQR0ASE035T/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Wildflower Detective Caitlin came upon this sheep-laurel, which because of its toxicity to animals is sometimes known as lamb-kill, sheep-kill or calf-kill. Meat from an animal that has eaten sheep-laurel can itself be toxic. The nectar can even produce toxic honey! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450033668042-3CH0QUO9CFC0GLODQESU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Wildflower Detective This bunchberry, which Caitlin photographed on MDI, has a secret you may not know about: It is the world’s fastest plant. Intrigued? I will reveal the secret farther down in the blog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450033698536-6O9GD8VLOICM9ICKWPNY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Wildflower Detective This is an herbarium specimen collected by Edward Rand, co-author (with John Redfield) of the 1894 book Flora of Mount Desert Island, Maine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450033767042-DPAYS00R675V1UVKNWAE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Wildflower Detective Real scientists measure bear scat crosswise with calipers because the diameter helps reveal the animal’s size. I had only a yardstick, but I estimated the width of some of this as more than an inch and a half—definitely from a grown-up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450033819631-MOEELX136T25QSDVGGL1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Wildflower Detective The plant matter in the scat reflected the bear’s early season diet. No berries or nuts yet, but a bit of sunflower seed and thistle from our feeders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450033860762-FYM9SA6V9HH701BZUPMT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Wildflower Detective Whoa—what’s going on with the front stoop at The Naturalist’s Notebook? You will have to wait and see. A hint: It will be intriguing to everyone who’s even a little curious about the last 13.7 billion years (give or take). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450033906260-6JAHL04K8UOGJE2PS2M3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Wildflower Detective Luke with Pamelia and some of his paintings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450033944582-M8YM8EMBYGRVM1I5949K/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Wildflower Detective Speaking of the Acadia Birding Festival, Pamelia and I took time to enjoy the event’s lobster dinner at Thurston’s with some friends and organizer Michael Good (far right), who did a great job, as always, in giving festival participants a wonderful bird-watching and learning experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450034045476-KSYU8R9CF2R9MBQJ7ETV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Wildflower Detective https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450034074594-D56FZDKMM1WPFRUX83A8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Wildflower Detective Can you guess what it is? https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/glimpse-of-whats-coming monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450034676168-Y9PWE11051RIPAP6YYS4/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Glimpse of What's Coming With our 2012 opening day more than two weeks away, The Notebook is still a mess, with many installations still just works in progress, but here’s a look at one room that’s coming along. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450034702917-3XLF70TE2SXWV6TPKIPD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Glimpse of What's Coming Pamelia, Eli and Julie are hammering and hanging right this moment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450034733125-NYJVLQKD9B6UPQF7OG0V/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Glimpse of What's Coming A detail in one of the Bernd Heinrich illustrations we’ll be showing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450034768429-NBWZQWQDOXGG13UD1X6O/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Glimpse of What's Coming Stay curious. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/up-for-june monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450034895379-8BKF5GN4MCES1ERXBWI3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Up for June The forest tent caterpillar we found along the roadside seemed at first glance to be stretching for the sky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450034938543-KZO5YVEKHAWB60GXINA7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Up for June The forest tent caterpillar we found along the roadside seemed at first glance to be stretching for the sky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450035019302-SR9OZ881B8QL6I96FWKK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Up for June What are these birds? They were among the types shown during a bird-I.D. panel discussion at the Acadia Birding Festival on Thursday. O.K., we’ll tell you. They’re storm petrels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450035214496-ZPBTWOAS8E6Y4U7V1Z3P/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Up for June During a whirlwind visit to New York for SI work and a wedding, Pamelia and I walked through Central Park, where softball players were sliding in the dirt and birds galore were bathing in it. All were having fun. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450035257408-OKHIZQK0U9AAPA4EK4TK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Up for June The mummified dogs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450035292669-TOTMOXF760ZFKX8CKHPM/mainecurrentclimate-1024x768.jpg Blog - Up for June Maine’s climate has been warming, though the average year-round temperature along the coast, where we live, is still just 44.3 degrees. The global average is about 58 degrees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450035325091-IBNMJFVGBIZO4B8HXUBZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Up for June https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450035417289-I0D8MQJCUDSO90UTS1T9/chickspuzzler-1024x768.jpg Blog - Up for June Can You Guess? https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/how-to-extract-iron-from-breakfast-cereal-with-a-magnet monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450035988570-QTKA7JO2D2O4BS8AJGLE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Extract Iron From Breakfast Cereal With a Magnet My first job was to crush the Total flakes into fine pieces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450036037057-N5BBP9I6LVSFMK3LN0LP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Extract Iron From Breakfast Cereal With a Magnet Total touts its high iron content. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450036065655-BZ2IENR65KDOUUR1T1OE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Extract Iron From Breakfast Cereal With a Magnet Grinding away…guess I could have saved myself work if I had opened the cereal bag from the bottom, where all the dust settles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450036092776-B7YIRXOQL56891GWXSO7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Extract Iron From Breakfast Cereal With a Magnet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450036133101-BEO0EI6GIDLNCBR3G77C/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Extract Iron From Breakfast Cereal With a Magnet I mixed the crushed Total with hot (not quite boiling) water in a Ziploc bag. The book doesn’t say how much water to add, so I just guessed and made it somewhat watery. Maybe half a cup? Following O’Hare’s instructions, I let the mixture settle for about 20 minutes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450036161878-HEH5ZFZJBA9ENQH6C3UM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Extract Iron From Breakfast Cereal With a Magnet You can see the dark clump of iron just above the magnet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450036195227-2DNYL5C6503FKJXC3O1A/ironcerealcloseup-1024x767.jpg Blog - How to Extract Iron From Breakfast Cereal With a Magnet A closer look at the iron. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450036229212-2OSIUBVBENRJ7GB0RIBM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Extract Iron From Breakfast Cereal With a Magnet One more look, with the gray iron strands again clearly visible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450036259348-ET1K2GGQJ7SRDFE99FQ1/image-asset.png Blog - How to Extract Iron From Breakfast Cereal With a Magnet Venus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450036300425-1N1A2LX8V6QLDORV28DE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Extract Iron From Breakfast Cereal With a Magnet A black guillemot, the namesake of the newsletter and a bird seen frequently here in Maine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450036329673-48HVSTKJHITBDJSXPWKL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Extract Iron From Breakfast Cereal With a Magnet The egg, hatched and grown up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450036359693-K2F9ELL7BT0632DZ0BOA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Extract Iron From Breakfast Cereal With a Magnet Can you guess? https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/tribute-to-a-friend monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450036814881-38YFJFPU5LQLF6D7QSXM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Tribute to a Friend Wooster in her New York City days. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450039354473-Z2YK0G84EIC4V15D9GXW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Tribute to a Friend Wooster as a puppy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450039385893-TBNNHXWX4OKWLAYA8XUI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Tribute to a Friend Wooster adapted happily to life in Maine. Here she’s taking a breather after leading us up Cedar Swamp Mountain in Acadia National Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450039423875-E7YIEN5BOEQID1NGRSGO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Tribute to a Friend She was a good sister to kitty Hedda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450039454585-I0DFKV95U6VHPQQLA3EV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Tribute to a Friend A familiar pose, this one in her final weeks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450039480066-3CMZ0ACPALPRZWATISEI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Tribute to a Friend My enduring image of Wooster: crossed paws, frog legs, ready for whatever’s next. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450039503312-NK7JDN773V5KPLOZKNUH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Tribute to a Friend https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450039543347-BZEON0QXB271NY9U0O8B/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Tribute to a Friend A trio of creeping reptiles called whiptail lizards. Bonus question: Whiptail lizards are the official reptile of which state—Arizona, New Mexico or Utah? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450039585467-UES5RI73FCRQ9VYFFZCI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Tribute to a Friend An American bullfrog, one of our favorite amphibians. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450039612372-QCIVFBWL0X5AIZW2Y49E/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Tribute to a Friend What is it? https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/how-an-abandoned-navy-base-became-a-mecca-for-scientists-naturalists-artists-educators-and-porcupines monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450039691954-J0JLP9XSHVSQV3B4WMSN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How an Abandoned Navy Base Became a Mecca for Scientists, Naturalists, Artists, Educators... and Porcupines As we enjoyed a coastal drive on the Schoodic National Scenic Byway, we turned right onto the peninsula for a visit to SERC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450039725583-ZU7GMAUG0KRQNT0DIYSH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How an Abandoned Navy Base Became a Mecca for Scientists, Naturalists, Artists, Educators... and Porcupines The SERC Institute campus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450039752624-J4JKXRJRZWOE7EKP7LG0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How an Abandoned Navy Base Became a Mecca for Scientists, Naturalists, Artists, Educators... and Porcupines Abe led us around the SERC campus on former paved roads that have been transformed into walking paths like this one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450039784943-XE0RCHWNBNFL9T1HI7MX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How an Abandoned Navy Base Became a Mecca for Scientists, Naturalists, Artists, Educators... and Porcupines The shoreline near SERC. No sunshine on this day—that is, no SERC du soleil. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450039820435-UMSGIXOZTCJFM2YH9HOR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How an Abandoned Navy Base Became a Mecca for Scientists, Naturalists, Artists, Educators... and Porcupines If you don’t know much about Oman and its wildlife, here’s a taste: One of the sea turtles that nest at the Ra’s al Hadd Turtle Reserve on the Indian Ocean. Some 30,000 turtles nest here, as many of 13,000 of whom migrate in from the Arabian Gulf, the Red Sea and the East African coast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450039845285-CJZPIC9IAQLOMS4M6BO4/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How an Abandoned Navy Base Became a Mecca for Scientists, Naturalists, Artists, Educators... and Porcupines That’s Oman shaded in darker tan. It abuts (from north to south on the Arabian Peninsula) the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450039872375-K95M9HUWBOA1VO7LZ90F/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How an Abandoned Navy Base Became a Mecca for Scientists, Naturalists, Artists, Educators... and Porcupines One building at SERC has this giant map of the coast of Maine covering the floor. It offers hands-on learning and toes-on learning at the same time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450039927315-JUGI8UDYRG4RZOFH7LUL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How an Abandoned Navy Base Became a Mecca for Scientists, Naturalists, Artists, Educators... and Porcupines One of the many porcupines that live at or near the SERC Institute. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450039956354-JJH0WKFFU9Q0CRI91DXT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How an Abandoned Navy Base Became a Mecca for Scientists, Naturalists, Artists, Educators... and Porcupines Henry David Thoreau https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450039983927-IECU8LX77D7XEMH9A52H/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How an Abandoned Navy Base Became a Mecca for Scientists, Naturalists, Artists, Educators... and Porcupines A black-throated green warbler. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450040011299-OKA3RHJHEJJZHBC9RSRN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How an Abandoned Navy Base Became a Mecca for Scientists, Naturalists, Artists, Educators... and Porcupines A northern parula. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450040037659-87FRSMT1JK6UK2GL4JEI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How an Abandoned Navy Base Became a Mecca for Scientists, Naturalists, Artists, Educators... and Porcupines A golden-crowned kinglet. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/happy-bird-day-2 monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450040907013-3JUE18W4EUI2KRA5IX5M/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Happy Bird Day This Rafael Lopez painting is the poster for this year’s big event. Organizers say the piece reflects the joy, curiosity, and beauty of birds, while sharing the importance of community in bird conservation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450040986255-ZW1DF0PXFTU13FIK8H06/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Happy Bird Day https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450041064729-U0JWXKTDV2GZ1FCOOWN2/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Happy Bird Day A yellow warbler https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450041116437-5PAMIH05374BLOTEN1L5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Happy Bird Day I meant to include this in the last blog post. In our tidal walk Pamelia and I saw this apparent cluster of eggs attached to a rock. Each egg (if that’s what they were) was about the size of your fingernail. I saw an article suggesting that they might be clam eggs—which would make sense, given all the clams in the bay. But can any of you confirm what they are? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450041153919-NCIZKK6694TFTMXH9SW7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Happy Bird Day A big storm flooded the road into Seal Harbor on Friday. Pamelia and I made it through in our trusty aqua-wagon and made more headway in our nonstop preparations for the Notebook’s 2012 season. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450041189862-3YA0TTQZ7XOWO3SQV5UV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Happy Bird Day The bad weather also whipped up some big surf along Ocean Drive in Acadia National Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450041228524-Q0LVHRIYN3CPWI8BBKEE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Happy Bird Day The rough water forced the closing of the Thunder Hole viewing platform in Acadia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450041266756-9V3Z0YINHZKOKJB6IM37/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Happy Bird Day This giant tortoise is from the Galapagos Islands, where Notebook team member Julie Olbrantz’s parents just had some extraordinary nature-watching experiences. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/time-and-tide-to-get-outdoors monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450042297304-7BDM468YR09WMU402S55/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Time and Tide to Get Outside The super-low tide was peaking at 6:08 a.m., so Pamelia and I grabbed our boots and our coffee and headed for the water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450042343875-H29PGL6P6FTVONRW686Y/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Time and Tide to Get Outside We started seeing the red starfish (or sea stars) that seem to be here—or to be that color—only at certain times of the year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450042372099-2SXD4QKGCQR594DV2IP8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Time and Tide to Get Outside By going far from shore we also saw blue sea stars. Pamelia was shooting new images for her low-tide photo series for The Naturalist’s Notebook. This shot wasn’t good enough to make the cut; you’ll see far cooler images if you come to the Notebook this year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450042398750-XUJVZEGE4N1WWFB8GT33/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Time and Tide to Get Outside This mini-crustacean—a young shrimp?—faces a challenging life because of all the hungry predators in the bay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450042475128-546SGM6SNI3BHSG7049S/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Time and Tide to Get Outside A cluster of sea urchins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450042501533-BIRM1K9DFTXUM2V3B0RO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Time and Tide to Get Outside You thought I was kidding about the boots full of water? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450042530164-ZRLR8AG06JI0QKHI7Z23/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Time and Tide to Get Outside https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450042557388-MJMKA58ZEKE01NKAJ94N/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Time and Tide to Get Outside We planted our dozens of dahlias indoors to give them a jump start on the season. Within hours, tiny yellow spiders appeared. I’m guessing that they were dormant in the potting soil and came alive in the heat of the house. Within a few days their numbers had swelled to the hundreds and they had woven a six-foot-by-10-foot web. Before our house turned into an arachnophobe’s nightmare, we took the plants outside for an afternoon and set the spiders free. We think they might have been argiope aurantia, also known as black-and-yellow garden spiders or corn spiders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450042583552-3E22E6XFMVBDXVL8G242/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Time and Tide to Get Outside Because the dahlias started growing fast, I put a ruler in one pot to measure the height. Notice that the highest point on this dahlia is nine-and-three-quarter inches. Check out the next picture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450042609571-RW3IAOBPCFW9Y1XRAJVA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Time and Tide to Get Outside This is the same dahlia two days later. I would estimate that the highest leaf is now about 15 inches. That’s more than five inches of growth in 48 hours. Which makes me wonder…. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450042631895-SAIYX2MI4I17U8NJPMQN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Time and Tide to Get Outside …whether last weekend’s so-called supermoon—the biggest full moon of the year because the moon is so close to the Earth right now—might be aiding the plants’ growth in some way. Farmers have planted by moon cycles for centuries, and some research has shown that in times of especially strong lunar gravity (such as now, causing the dramatic tides) water rises higher in the soil. Might that extra-strong pull also help lift water up into plants, speeding growth? Just a hypothesis. Maybe dahlias just like our living room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450042656934-6N598EM2J6PWB1MXTSGS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Time and Tide to Get Outside On a walk, Pamelia and I spent time studying one of the many small blue moths that were flitting around. I say blue because the other side of this moth’s wings are strikingly blue. This side provides camouflage in the woods. The black-and-white striped legs and antennae reminded us of the color pattern made famous in the buildings of Siena in Italy (which in turn were inspired by the black-and-white horses belonging to that city’s mythological founders). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450042688926-GMRC38OPIE52IYR8KVLR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Time and Tide to Get Outside Our woods are blanketed with newly blossoming trout lilies, also known as dog-toothed violets. Notice the trout-like pattern on the foliage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450042712343-Y0EWCN8JWFOQ7MJ5S0L4/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Time and Tide to Get Outside While driving nearby, we saw what we thought were three wild turkeys—perhaps part of the flock that has lived by our house all winter. Then we got closer and realized that they looked more like farm turkeys. Escapees, perhaps? We don’t know of any turkey farm within 20 miles of here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450042738537-41M7II0EGXUXEREN7B62/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Time and Tide to Get Outside Along the shore we found this maze design on a piece of our 500-million-year-old coastal schist. The rock is metamorphic, meaning it was transformed by tremendous heat and pressure under the ground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1450042763423-LEC4R326X8FXWVFIYASG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Time and Tide to Get Outside I love maps, and a Notebook correspondent passed along a link to some beautiful map-collage work by artist Matthew Cusick. I'm not sure how well you can see it on this piece, called The Rachel's Wave, but this is entirely made from cut-up maps. Check out some of his other work at mattcusick.com https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/a-trip-to-vermont-to-see-bernd-heinrich monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452376277390-69P7CT5M8SG01X4K7WQL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Trip to Vermont to See Bernd Heinrich Vermont is dairy country, and Bernd lives just up the hill from this idyllic scene. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452376335191-J2EIO01BT4XZOW7ID1R1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Trip to Vermont to See Bernd Heinrich Bernd, who is an emeritus professor of biology at the University of Vermont, welcomed us to his home outside Burlington. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452376374567-KRSL64NBYKWICUCFOT03/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Trip to Vermont to See Bernd Heinrich Bernd's pet rats seemed delighted to meet us, as did a pair of friendly dogs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452376408690-IU3HNLVZ8Y76OOFZBM8F/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Trip to Vermont to See Bernd Heinrich Bernd showing Pamelia and me art pieces in his studio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452376454941-5B1NMPO5T4B91WHPURMX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Trip to Vermont to See Bernd Heinrich This illustration shows the skulls of a blue jay (upper left), a crow (lower left) and a raven, all members of the corvid family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452376491640-44OY0K1L3EB6OQJRTUER/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Trip to Vermont to See Bernd Heinrich Some of his work, such as this painting of winter finches, still had the Post-it notes stuck on by his book publishers as instructions to printers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452376530467-Q7TGP1DHSQKJ94H69CNY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Trip to Vermont to See Bernd Heinrich A few of Bernd's books in the studio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452376591438-N5V7NYI2T9O3SY91GS75/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Trip to Vermont to See Bernd Heinrich Bernd has some books on his shelves that you probably don't have on yours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452376626167-UDMGHN072E6KA15XE698/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Trip to Vermont to See Bernd Heinrich Bernd caught this mouse (with his drawing eye) at snack time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452376666619-5MFRDQI5DEHUL2KS6AS7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Trip to Vermont to See Bernd Heinrich This sapsucker pops its head out in one corner of a larger painting. Bernd has been doing his sapsucker research both at his home and at his beloved cabin in rural western Maine, where he also has conducted much of his raven research over the years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452376713590-RWXSGGALLWHK7X3B3OEA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Trip to Vermont to See Bernd Heinrich Bernd wrote us naturalist's notes to go with certain pieces we took with us. Most of his pieces already have notes and observations written on them describing the species or behavior shown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452376784866-44PYL1LFVNQ46WUFXQEQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Trip to Vermont to See Bernd Heinrich As we were getting ready to leave, we saw what Bernd said was the first white-throated sparrow he'd spotted this year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452376932179-5ZICD4FLNSWGWVKW7PHU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Trip to Vermont to See Bernd Heinrich On our drive home, we passed through Rumford, Maine, where the falls were roaring after a day of heavy rain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452376983818-R8HM3ABRQ8Z3Q89OGL14/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Trip to Vermont to See Bernd Heinrich Vermont may be New England's only landlocked state, but these whales' tales greeted us at the edge of Burlington. The black granite sculpture, made in 1989 and officially called Reverence, is meant as a statement on the fragility of the Earth. Ice cream buffs might be interested to know that it's located near Ben & Jerry's headquarters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452377061392-WQO30OMMFNLRVWLV8HJ9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Trip to Vermont to See Bernd Heinrich A fine forest fern fiddlehead face, unfurling—future fire fuel? https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/our-nest-eggs monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452377296796-XXAHWAMEAHN8VZ30VGZA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Nest Eggs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452377336611-N2NSZI7JJL60TPDR3YUC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Nest Eggs Our Earth Day week included a mountain hike in Acadia National Park and a stop to show three guests the waves, churn and BOOM at Thunder Hole, which was in rousing form. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452377489993-9VPA7EMIKY7AF6HFQS4T/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Nest Eggs Two of our primate helpers at the Notebook this week. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452377594117-JKERLGTVSWTY7454T5GX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Nest Eggs This was the scene in April 2008, when thousands of eiders gathered at our point. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452377630018-K09XAPP49OYZPOD670TE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Nest Eggs Some of the birds took off when a hungry bald eagle showed up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452377657900-CCG927C7E5SM7OIGY6KX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Nest Eggs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452377709768-K4H8JHMH2372WN2TZPCR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Nest Eggs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452377742305-8CPDAAKDE48JT6IUN9RV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Nest Eggs Artist Michael Wallace created this image (meant to represent a scene in the Angry Birds video game) by using the tracking feature on his GPS device. Wallace drew this image by traveling a pre-planned route through the streets of Baltimore while carrying his GPS, which traced his path onto a map. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/up-cadillac-mountain monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452377962331-JWXV959R861QOSVCDZTD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Up Cadillac Mountain We quickly found ourselves above the banks of fog that had formed on an unusually warm April day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452377997950-HUAMEXSINSQWLIKAH3WG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Up Cadillac Mountain The views were this beautiful in every direction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452378054487-AKR9Z0N2C5V58AGFO2AS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Up Cadillac Mountain As is often the case, winds were blasting the Cadillac summit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452378262912-K2B5W70RP9IZHTBEIW2I/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Up Cadillac Mountain Wooster in her dogmobile.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452378300478-DDGLVWK2P7NYL1UHYYXU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Up Cadillac Mountain We later took her for a short walk along the granite coastline near Thunder Hole in Acadia National Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452378339683-QZLPEQFJS9UN3DNEG3HJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Up Cadillac Mountain When I first saw it from the corner of my eye, it looked so large that I thought it was a mouse. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/a-shell-in-wonderland monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452475345443-2RUZJA5PBC1MTNVPW1R9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Shell In Wonderland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452475383390-7FZ51LDETZXNKOB2NVLO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Shell In Wonderland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452475443549-LVJWR93581VQLSNK80P9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Shell In Wonderland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452475512489-LPV4DBYDNG35OOJ0PLC2/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Shell In Wonderland https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/rube-goldberg-in-the-21st-century monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452475693359-T8AAG71K3GD1V6L4NSTY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Rube Goldberg in the 21st Century https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/woodpeckers-in-love monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452649954383-T0YYG9XTDHUW5UKW8U7P/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Woodpeckers in Love These two female hairy woodpeckers seemed to be vying for the attention of the same nearby male. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452650058889-37CYPHCM8FXZV5VBP4NT/heronarrives-1024x773.jpg Blog - Woodpeckers in Love Here he or she is: Our first heron of the year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452650104758-0ZOFLN9HJLY03R5VQSP3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Woodpeckers in Love We have a sign in the Farm Room at the Notebook that underscores what Jonathan Foley says in his talk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452650202960-O29OZXRV8JPWRVNHTYID/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Woodpeckers in Love Another first: The first sand dollar we've seen this year, at very low tide at Seal Harbor beach. That beach has always been a sand-dollar hotspot—perhaps because there isn't much sand elsewhere on Mount Desert Island. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452650269462-RB37XWU2Z0FE4PHCAVKE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Woodpeckers in Love Remember the bridge-replacement project that diverted all traffic away from Seal Harbor last fall, during the final seven weeks of The Naturalist's Notebook season? Here's the sturdy-looking result. The road to the Notebook is open for 2012 and beyond. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/take-two-hikes-and-call-me-in-the-morning monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452650562198-PWHY1AR2G4TYX1BFU8L6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Take Two Hikes and Call Me In the Morning A Notebook group atop North Bubble Peak during a summer hike in Acadia National Park. Under a new program, doctors may begin prescribing these sort of outings for nature-deprived and obese children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452650638537-M2U5N5RTWE7HAISVWMY3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Take Two Hikes and Call Me In the Morning Here's a prescription for kids of any age: Combine a hike in Acadia with a lesson in how to do a leaf-rubbing. The results can be electrifying. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452650684876-LHBEJ0KRU8MH82UBEY81/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Take Two Hikes and Call Me In the Morning https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452650952518-74LJ8SYACU9POKY2ASC0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Take Two Hikes and Call Me In the Morning Our traveling book show at Bates. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452651037108-ROI6X5EXZ64QB6F84D3X/thenatureprinciple.jpeg Blog - Take Two Hikes and Call Me In the Morning     https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452651190505-BCZ98UXFN5EO16GDO9WG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Take Two Hikes and Call Me In the Morning Some visitors had to jump to add their origami creations to the tree created in last year's Notebook by Melanie and Anthea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452651238791-BI3A96IPJY9M2VTCAF4X/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Take Two Hikes and Call Me In the Morning https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452651297397-WJXJ3OXHW0NJAN2IQSE5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Take Two Hikes and Call Me In the Morning Last summer Melanie (on cello) and another musical prodigy, Emma Walsh, who had never even met before, got together to put on a memorable performance on the Drawing Room deck at the Notebook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452651377686-FLDI2SLQGDKBK16JU90N/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Take Two Hikes and Call Me In the Morning In case you were wondering what a female mosquito's bite looks like up close... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452651445861-5BS4UJ5DVBUQWIVVJ5Y7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Take Two Hikes and Call Me In the Morning https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/great-blue-heron-eggs-and-nest monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452651657566-LZX5MDPD5YSCFTX1XYT9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Great Blue Heron Eggs and Nest The heron cam is watching the nest 24 hours a day. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/jon-stewart-chemistry-buff-and-other-surprises monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454980561892-C2QBMACTKP176JDCLSUB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Jon Stewart, Chemistry Buff (And Other Surprises) The Daily Show host nearly followed in the footsteps of Dmitri Mendeleyev, Antoine Lavoisier and Henry Cavendish. (We're glad he didn't.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454980591093-N4RG7G8N79OQ8PTRIV0W/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Jon Stewart, Chemistry Buff (And Other Surprises) Just a note before you click on the clip: Carbon atoms have the ability to form four bonds with other atoms, which enables carbon to combine with multiple elements in a vast variety of molecules—and explains the somewhat racy carbon banter in which Stewart and de Grasse Tyson engage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454980629886-FRMBK4DJFWN4SC63UR1M/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Jon Stewart, Chemistry Buff (And Other Surprises) Jon Stewart, college chemistry student. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454980673594-IJYCKBB8IQ8I60QTG14X/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Jon Stewart, Chemistry Buff (And Other Surprises) Herring gulls hovered in place while flying into the strong wind in Bar Harbor the other evening. Those balmy 70-degree temperatures of two weeks ago have given way to more typical blustery April weather here in northern New England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454980700525-10NNU3WQJ9K5P4I0VTWJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Jon Stewart, Chemistry Buff (And Other Surprises) The flocks of birds around our home keep growing. Nearly three dozen goldfinches and purple finches have been chirping and feeding together. This sparrow took a close-up look at Pamelia through a glass door. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454980723519-UZSY2SP9399T9TLRAHTO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Jon Stewart, Chemistry Buff (And Other Surprises) A Baltimore oriole https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454980748192-KLCLXLUAMB7ZHNY8EQVA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Jon Stewart, Chemistry Buff (And Other Surprises) A common yellowthroat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454980769670-26C1DFN3AHF1H681X5HS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Jon Stewart, Chemistry Buff (And Other Surprises) An American redstart https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454980796150-38KWJ02B5QOE53W0S81S/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Jon Stewart, Chemistry Buff (And Other Surprises) The mind-expanding website lets you use a cursor to zoom in and out through objects of all sizes, from the observable universe (width: 10 to the 27th power meters) at the large end to a Planck length (width: 10 to the minus-35th power meters) at the small end. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454980835488-TMXA59PU9YAH3KQVD5SA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Jon Stewart, Chemistry Buff (And Other Surprises) Here's Luka, who will begin graduate studies in botany and plant ecology at Syracuse this fall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454980879343-00O59G081ME9T4KLFS8C/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Jon Stewart, Chemistry Buff (And Other Surprises) Here's a puzzler in itself. As noted in the book Last Chance to See (the source of this photo of Stephen Fry with rhinoceros horns confiscated from poachers), 95 percent of Africa's rhinos had been killed by the early 1990s, mostly for their horns. Many of those horns are used in ground-up form in Asia for their supposed medicinal properties. Guess what? Rhino horns are composed primarily of keratin, the same protein that makes up your fingernails and toenails. It's tragic that the rhinos had to die when people could have gotten just as much medicinal benefit (i.e., none) by clipping and eating their own nails. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/painting-science-and-nature-without-a-brush-and-a-super-slo-mo-eagle-owl monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452652308085-SEJZK3HLCVMZWWWPQHU5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Painting Science and Nature Without a Brush (And a Super-Slo-Mo Eagle Owl) Microscopes at the Darwin Centre in London, based on a photograph by Pamelia and altered with a palette-brush painting technique with my computer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452652392142-FBULSGHH6JTBB80BZMSW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Painting Science and Nature Without a Brush (And a Super-Slo-Mo Eagle Owl) This is a hoopoe specimen that Pamelia photographed at the Natural History Museum in London and I photo-doctored with a colored-pencil tool. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452652431526-39JHRVHR5FMN6OYXP1K8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Painting Science and Nature Without a Brush (And a Super-Slo-Mo Eagle Owl) This is a watercolor twist on an iris Pamelia photographed at the Asticou Azalea Gardens on Mount Desert Island. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452652496676-H3EOS92HREPGMPR64KNK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Painting Science and Nature Without a Brush (And a Super-Slo-Mo Eagle Owl) A paint-daubing tool enabled me to alter my photo of a fox in the snow at our house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452652553576-XZO06BVNKUWC0CHMOWLF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Painting Science and Nature Without a Brush (And a Super-Slo-Mo Eagle Owl) This is supposed to have a plastic feel—very unlike The Naturalist's Notebook, of course, but an interesting effect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452652587432-5QV0BKXMLCF1V9W47Z0H/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Painting Science and Nature Without a Brush (And a Super-Slo-Mo Eagle Owl) I gave a wave treatment to this photo of a juvenile bald eagle (taken, I think, in 2009 by young ornithologist Pat Johnson, part of the Notebook's founding team). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452652634172-PURZI8AISG6PIBVQL0UH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Painting Science and Nature Without a Brush (And a Super-Slo-Mo Eagle Owl) A photo I shot of a water drop on lupine, made more abstract with a cutout-paper technique. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452652683692-34GMZHC2RNZWT9LPYJFO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Painting Science and Nature Without a Brush (And a Super-Slo-Mo Eagle Owl) Pamelia's moonrise photo, tweaked with a smudge tool. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452652718750-10P6IW0R6UQ07SSVPLIY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Painting Science and Nature Without a Brush (And a Super-Slo-Mo Eagle Owl) Guess what? This isn't computer-doctored at all, even though (at least to me) it looks awfully painterly. I took this sunrise photo at our house a year or two ago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452652779230-3GTA27R6Y9QER1R43QU3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Painting Science and Nature Without a Brush (And a Super-Slo-Mo Eagle Owl) In a recent blog post I showed a mussel shell that resembled a globe with the continents merged. I said that the continents looked that way hundreds of millions of years ago. Well, here's a map of the Earth from 200 million years ago, when continents were connected in a supercontinent called Pangaea. Note that what's now Maine was connected to Africa and was below the equator. The continental plates are still constantly shifting beneath our feet. Right now Maine and the rest of North America are moving away from Europe, toward Asia, at the same rate your fingernails grow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452652876858-A6O746TTMJFY0HW6GSET/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Painting Science and Nature Without a Brush (And a Super-Slo-Mo Eagle Owl) Calvin Coolidge's wife, Grace, with their pet raccoon. Among the other animals the Coolidges kept in the White House were a pair of collies, a donkey, a bobcat, canaries, a goose and a mockingbird. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/inside-the-mdi-biological-lab monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452653221394-NIXN4Q84PYL3YZTAW4Y8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Inside the MDI Biological Lab Welcome to the lab! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452653258505-1FSNADXN37YA4FZAEH9W/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Inside the MDI Biological Lab The lab's 200-acre campus on Salisbury Cove has a relaxed, woodsy feel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452653351145-7V4VHNMO9UJW1E44MOW4/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Inside the MDI Biological Lab One of the labs in the new green-designed complex. In addition to the high-level reseach done here by top scientists, high school and college students learn to do things like clone genes and synthesize DNA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452653395350-DW6NZOF3P98PW8QMNX45/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Inside the MDI Biological Lab The dogfish shark symbol in a mosaic in the dining hall. That 16-inch-long shark's ability to regulate salt in its body has provided clues to help address kidney disease. Lab researchers have also studied the dogfish shark in search of a cure for cystic fibrosis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452653437518-F6YB4WR5MUBRELWRJ2XD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Inside the MDI Biological Lab There's a natural-stone arch by the water at Laboratory Point. That's Frenchman's Bay in the distance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452653610891-UAYE1MBJ86XV28UT08C8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Inside the MDI Biological Lab Zebrafish now are used for a lot of MDIBL studies. Among their research-friendly traits, they develop quickly, their genome has been sequenced and their bodies are virtually transparent, allowing a clear view of what's happening inside them. Perhaps most important, given the MDIBL's work on regenerative medicine, zebrafish can regenerate their own fins, spinal column, retinas and even heart muscle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452653682646-WHKVIGA66CVPEBKEGTA0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Inside the MDI Biological Lab Scientist Jane Disney has expanded her eelgrass-restoration efforts into local schools, where she runs a program she calls Sea Grasses In Classes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452653759900-8THRYT878A9CP5GY12AV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Inside the MDI Biological Lab From left: Yours truly, Shannara Gilman and Jane Disney in Jane's lab. As one scientist at the lab told me, if you're ever having a bad day at the MDIBL, just look out the window at the gorgeous view and everything will seem better. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452653803835-JHJ0KPM9SVL3KAQRZFE5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Inside the MDI Biological Lab On Wednesday night we went to another in the MDI Bio Lab's Science Cafe series. Jackson Laboratory scientist Kyuson Yun explained the work she and others are doing on a hugely important discovery: cancer stem cells, which appear to be the cells that drive the spread of tumors. Until the last few years, no one knew that these cancer supercells (that's my term, not the scientific one) existed. Finding a way to attack those cells (which aren't always easy to identify) is a new challenge for researchers and pharmaceutical companies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452653888915-BC2PLP3BJ9ZBDMWZ8R0D/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Inside the MDI Biological Lab https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/through-the-lens monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452820079060-15SYPLSB7B9EJBTL6PHS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Through the Lens Pamelia found a mussel shell that looked to us like a globe—perhaps one showing the world hundreds of millions of years ago, when the continents were joined in a different configuration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452820183021-6BWS86L8L7MPTV9CPIAE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Through the Lens In the warmth on Saturday, legions of spiders skittered around the cove beach near us. Can you spot the spider camouflaged by this dried rock weed? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452820209447-N7ERK4GLPUE1HF8F37VK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Through the Lens Olympic track champion and Notebook friend Lynn Jennings snapped this swirling shot of her companion Towhee during a brisk Sunday hike through Forest Park in Portland, Oregon. Towhee, an Olympic-caliber trail runner and nature observer, celebrated her 11th birthday last Friday. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452820259753-5SWXHI1I0WTSLFYCJB3T/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Through the Lens Yellow lichen on rocks along our shore. Lichens are lovely but strange. They're actually two organisms living in combination—algae cells linked with filaments of fungi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452820481300-4IYZFTIET74DT8VCIUSJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Through the Lens Our 15 wild turkeys were in full strut on Saturday afternoon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452820537027-8VP6SBUOLWV1DG3U2XKS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Through the Lens This one is courtesy of NASA. It's a new, false-color, ultraviolet shot of the recently stormy Sun. It's in 3-D, so if you have the glasses you should be able to see the solar flare jumping out at you. At least in theory. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/500-years-of-women-in-art-and-other-march-madness-in-less-than-3-minutes monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452820782902-TAVAKXATH3WB2I4IJ08X/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 500 Years of Women In Art In Less Than 3 Minutes (and Other March Madness) Just to illustrate how the Sun's position is changing (and show you how beautiful Maine is, as E.B. White knew), here's a shot of yesterday's sunrise at our house. Back in December, the Sun rose on the far side of that tree and those mountains on the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452820823023-J17UBXNN0JOTHWXQGP0M/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 500 Years of Women In Art In Less Than 3 Minutes (and Other March Madness) https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/the-barred-owl-and-the-tree-lobster monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452820927287-ZEN6JNR9S84AZ8CYGWIC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Barred Owl and the Tree Lobster Here's the beautiful barred owl that Sarah photographed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452820971406-5SQB8SFRSKVV7KBGCAM2/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Barred Owl and the Tree Lobster https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452821178084-HCA034WYKRWB52R8KZZ4/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Barred Owl and the Tree Lobster lordhowislandstickinsect https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452821230419-334ER13VY5XN9GV04O9L/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Barred Owl and the Tree Lobster Ball's Pyramid, where the climbers found the stick insects. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452821284678-402UIQGEUZF2ROCS7MY3/venus-jupiter-conjunction.jpg Blog - The Barred Owl and the Tree Lobster https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452821354656-EWP5OJBTNH65FUQT51UT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Barred Owl and the Tree Lobster https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/observe-draw-dont-mind-the-arsenic monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452821523019-J4SQNKHV7EXBHUEY2E1S/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Observe. Draw. Don't Mind the Arsenic. We came across this quotation at the Natural History Museum in London. Arthur Harry Church was a painstakingly precise botanist and illustrator who worked from specimens at Oxford University, where he taught. He was so absorbed in plants that the middle names he gave his three daughters were the Latin terms for hollyhock (Alcea), leopard's bane (Doronica) and hazel (Coryla). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452822751118-GXGUHD6EH8ZPACZL3BLM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Observe. Draw. Don't Mind the Arsenic. Pamelia sketching a bald eagle, one of the many specimens at the archives. That's a great blue heron on the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452822826995-591JQK9VVHHLJR33LZCU/arthurharrychurchbook.jpg Blog - Observe. Draw. Don't Mind the Arsenic. Though Arthur Harry Church never thought of himself as an artist, his flower paintings have been compared to Georgia O'Keefe's. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452822863663-Y1HMLLIQRSD9ES0BRDCF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Observe. Draw. Don't Mind the Arsenic. I drew the heron. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452822915580-HQKS93RH4LUB526UILD3/acadiaarchivepamelia-1024x768.jpg Blog - Observe. Draw. Don't Mind the Arsenic. Pamelia also studied and sketched a snowy owl, the type Harry Potter fans would know better as Harry's companion Hedwig. That's a goshawk on the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452822954088-I0DBK6FRVX7272Q5UWOY/acadiaarchivepameliaowl-1024x768.jpg Blog - Observe. Draw. Don't Mind the Arsenic. Pamelia focusing on the owl's face. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452822996915-9J05D7IX220RI30S4VR5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Observe. Draw. Don't Mind the Arsenic. O.K., so odd things happen sometimes. I like this little creature I sketched...but I was trying to draw an owl. Midway through, I realized I was blundering badly, so I channeled my inner Charles Darwin and hastened the evolution of what I decided to call a beaver-toothed mouse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452823028730-3CJF45Y3J6MXKIIP4V1Q/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Observe. Draw. Don't Mind the Arsenic. This sign on the door to the main archive room was not a joke. The bird specimens, which are kept in tight-sealing, glass-doored metal lockers, were long ago treated with arsenic, which killed the microbes that would have gradually destroyed the specimens. Pure arsenic may be odorless, but arsenic compounds can smell quite unpleasant. The birds and other preserved animals in the archive exude a strong garlicky, chemical odor that I couldn't take for too long. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452823080836-1QVPWL8R51QWT03BITP9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Observe. Draw. Don't Mind the Arsenic. Among the other specimens at the archive are this black-billed cuckoo... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452823112768-JEX0PI4G1WWQI5ZXGBHY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Observe. Draw. Don't Mind the Arsenic. ...and this mourning warbler... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452823166677-2OAUB1SLLVOGTXZ7HEUX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Observe. Draw. Don't Mind the Arsenic. ...and this howling coyote, whose cousins have been baying lately in the woods within a mile of our house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452823224580-3301LP7JVG82TA744Q04/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Observe. Draw. Don't Mind the Arsenic. Flying ants? Yes, the archive has insects galore, labeled and mounted by entomologists and other naturalists who have explored the national park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452823356044-2JOPINV9Q9EMFZAZAW6O/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Observe. Draw. Don't Mind the Arsenic. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/crow-tracks-in-snow monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452823460264-2EL3G83M23UF7D1NJ3WF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Crow Tracks In Snow https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/hello-sharp-shinned-hawk monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452823545212-OP4WIIIGXWS8U0TTI6RK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Hello...Sharp-Shinned Hawk? The raptor had its hawk eyes on our bird feeder—one of several clues that helped us as we tried to identify it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452823580565-FST7T64GQ70I96VO1V38/americankestrel.jpg Blog - Hello...Sharp-Shinned Hawk? An American kestrel. These are only nine or ten inches long. Not what we saw. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452823619654-FV08RG0U51KW97RAS0QK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Hello...Sharp-Shinned Hawk? Notice that the tail is squarish. That helped us distinguish the bird from the similar-looking Cooper's hawk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452823681618-WLV2BF47Z2TFZ8NIDMLM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Hello...Sharp-Shinned Hawk? Here's one of Rocco's pieces (complete with 3-D viewers) enchanting a couple of visitors at The Naturalist's Notebook in 2010. A mechanical mosquito is flying around the top of the structure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452823721369-65UDGF3ZYG5YAFBJR7EG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Hello...Sharp-Shinned Hawk? One of Nancy's inventive and thought-provoking short films. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1452823815773-SJWAL5FEJMLBQGHE1EK7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Hello...Sharp-Shinned Hawk? What species of kite is this kite? https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/the-grape-and-the-football-field monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453043424922-84BJ6SPB8UC2U915S32P/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Grape and the Football Field https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453043457916-IILS61A87PWCHLPKF9GG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Grape and the Football Field https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453043487068-REDP82EWRYRSID5B2G8Z/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Grape and the Football Field https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453043528220-4M8VC2BLYPSY926H4T2V/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Grape and the Football Field https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453043551748-47FHE4M85SLEH12644TD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Grape and the Football Field Those are two of the cedar waxwings in the top photo. They're gregarious birds who love to eat berries. This fluffed-up robin was a striking sight on a snowy afternoon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453043600686-XUU5Z2XDN5XQA4Q9AS3N/image-asset.png Blog - The Grape and the Football Field Alan Alda https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453043688593-BWHSGNL7J25CEAR6NIXT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Grape and the Football Field Pat and Pamelia tearing the strips. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453043749746-3NUSUDYNUIT2INZTIX3V/rugcoils-1024x768.jpg Blog - The Grape and the Football Field Some of our rug coils that the ocean-front tearing (plus a lot of cutting, sewing and ironing) produced. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/leonardo-live-a-da-vinci-quiz monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453043994682-Y9ODKP6JW1P9SDREBDI6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Leonardo Live (A da Vinci Quiz) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453044024255-0NEP5ZYA0HLXIK52M5JK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Leonardo Live (A da Vinci Quiz) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453044052873-18NBHLF974W01IMY1MJT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Leonardo Live (A da Vinci Quiz) Lady With An Ermine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453044106110-NYWJFAPC2B9V862MK0SP/leonardo2-1024x768.jpg Blog - Leonardo Live (A da Vinci Quiz) The building in the background of these questions is the National Gallery in London, which hosted the da Vinci exhibition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453044162994-A96P0XHTKKBWOJ9CBR5Y/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Leonardo Live (A da Vinci Quiz) The full name of the exhibition in London was Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453044186200-E3XVGI23DKVUWHJ3LLQH/leonardo4-1024x768.jpg Blog - Leonardo Live (A da Vinci Quiz) The architectural drawings of da Vinci are famous, but when the National Gallery was built in the 1830s it was ridiculed for having mishmash of disproportionate architectural elements. The building was only one room deep because a workhouse was located behind it. Writer William Makepeace Thackaray ridiculed the gallery—which has since been expanded—as "a little gin shop of a building." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453044222687-IHU0RUKBX4AU1EDP3P3P/leonardo5-1024x768.jpg Blog - Leonardo Live (A da Vinci Quiz) The National Gallery sits on London's Trafalgar Square. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453044254429-LJLZWOXNKOL2S2F4DFFX/leonardo6-1024x768.jpg Blog - Leonardo Live (A da Vinci Quiz) The da Vinci exhibition is considered the most complete show of Leonardo's works ever staged. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453044285619-E42NWRAKLCSV4LVYE4KG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Leonardo Live (A da Vinci Quiz) Da Vinci had a reputation for not finishing works, but the incomplete sections of some of his pieces seems to add strength and emphasis to the finished sections. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453044317076-E4E1TO6HUA5058FCBO4Z/leonardo8-1024x768.jpg Blog - Leonardo Live (A da Vinci Quiz) Leonardo and Michelangelo—who was a generation younger—were rivals of a sort; Leonardo once said that the musculature drawn by Michelangelo on a man's back made the back look like a bag of walnuts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453044356913-PL8Y1YZ0E0V7AC0YB5FA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Leonardo Live (A da Vinci Quiz) This little Leonardo hung out at the Notebook last summer before someone purchased him. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/what-do-dogs-smell monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453044566386-GQ8U8GDTGN4SLLYKIOOH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What Do Dogs Smell? I've often noticed Wooster sniff freshly fallen snow more frantically than she does bare ground. Why is that? What's going on inside that canine snout? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453044595417-MMWF6NYPBNVDI4FII578/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What Do Dogs Smell? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453044669112-C7JGJNO66KT75IEP2DWF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What Do Dogs Smell? The two eagles after their failed attack. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453044712803-B9YOVMQLF2Z1VU8HZPCD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What Do Dogs Smell? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453044796207-OSAD0YW1KMPUC67KJQMT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What Do Dogs Smell? Part of a DNA installation at the Notebook two years ago. The DNA of humans and bonobos (the two types of primates whose skeletons are shown here) are about 99 percent identical. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/the-mailbag monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453044874847-M74P6FW6W0T30VNQP4H3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Mailbag https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453044902324-7X48ATAEH8OZEP6O1WVV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Mailbag https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453045036779-7UZBO0913O1KZY959IKV/raven-yellowstone-768x10241.jpg Blog - The Mailbag Here's a raven visitor Pamelia photographed as we drove through Yellowstone two years ago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453045077883-IWD0MUV9HLR6GEQTMEVX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Mailbag Neil deGrasse Tyson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453045165150-4GCVH1D8WJAT9P5J96PT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Mailbag https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/moody-maine-morning monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453045542106-90KMTVH50AG8HPDCGQ9S/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Moody Maine Morning We listened to a flock of eiders calling somewhere out in the soft light of the bay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453045572019-H73HNC3PQKOVCCYBXY0R/sugaronsnow.jpg Blog - Moody Maine Morning Sugar on snow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453045604219-G2R8B95K75J033BTCMWF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Moody Maine Morning These are the flowers known as Dutchman's breeches—named back in the day when people dried trousers on clothes lines, not in machines. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/who-was-that-masked-naturalist monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453045744035-STYB8T7BDLMR01XBEJZN/berndwolfcostume-1024x768.jpg Blog - Who Was That Masked Naturalist? The renowned—and good-humored—biologist and author showed us this photo of himself trying to sneak up on ravens, who often follow and feed with wolves. The sheepish naturalist in wolf's clothing didn't fool the highly intelligent birds he was trying to study; they took one look at him and flew off in fear. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453045782329-2VA91078MRLSN7YNINCW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Who Was That Masked Naturalist? The Science Cafe lecture upstairs at McKay's drew such a crowd that we had to squeeze in almost behind Karen James's video screen. There's a packed room to the left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453045853380-OZSPJ0LFB6HQ48SPIDOM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Who Was That Masked Naturalist? A series of factual observations by Darwin led him to his theory of natural selection, a term he used to contrast it with artificial selection, the process by which humans, through methods of breeding and hybridization, had significantly altered and domesticated cattle, sheep, dogs, corn and other living things. Darwin did not coin the phrase survival of the fittest, by the way, nor did he promote eugenics, racism or any of the other offensive concepts to which some anti-evolution propogandists have tried to link him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453045820698-G22TZY600YVCH2J4QEZQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Who Was That Masked Naturalist? Here's Bernd, minus the wolf costume, filling us in on the habits, intelligence and individual personalities of corvus corax, the common raven. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453045911431-0NKHSPE1VZB6ZTDVRQIL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Who Was That Masked Naturalist? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453045941905-GT2GP3KZ9F7C8WU85FBR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Who Was That Masked Naturalist? Is it a raven or a crow? That's a raven on the right. Among other differences, ravens are much larger and have a patch of shaggy throat feathers. The illustration below shows the difference in tail shape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453045972045-MKC99IKI3IDH1KN33UXT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Who Was That Masked Naturalist? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453046002786-TLC17C76ENWCTNTG2U8F/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Who Was That Masked Naturalist? Among their vast range of vocalizations—at least 33 CATEGORIES of sounds, according to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology—ravens make joyful, gurgling noises that help explain why Bernd calls these corvids one of the cheeriest birds in the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453046033226-139VE8MR221A7B59GCGI/berndreleaseraven-1024x800.jpg Blog - Who Was That Masked Naturalist? Here's an older shot of Bernd releasing a tagged raven at his cabin in western Maine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453046068910-JRWH9S13A1ADQ6E1Z397/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Who Was That Masked Naturalist? The mouths of young ravens are pinkish; they later turn black, but, inexplicably, the timing of that transformation can depend on the circumstances and the number of other juveniles with whom they are reared. Ravens can live for 50 years, and they mate for life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453046105065-YPCT16NCYFTALGUQJI9E/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Who Was That Masked Naturalist? Bernd added one hen's egg (the large one) to a nest of raven eggs; the raven didn't notice the difference. Ravens sometimes eat other birds' eggs. Once, a mother raven regurgitated a whole, unbroken robin's egg to feed to its fledglings. Bernd, ever curious, removed the robin's egg from the nest and tried to hatch it, without luck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453046133234-E9J2B18LT3YSWRJQQM8T/berndravenstring-758x1024.jpg Blog - Who Was That Masked Naturalist? In one experiment, the ravens figured out how to lift a string to which food was attached; this bird held the excess string under its foot as it pulled up the food. Bernd has joked about his violating the rule in biology of never trying to study animals that are smarter than you are. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453046167273-0ZXASQF5UP70756FP0NS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Who Was That Masked Naturalist? Ravens love to play. The one on the right is rolling around like a dog or cat. Bernd says they do crazy things like that. Each individual is different, he says, and much of the time he's not quite sure what they're doing or why they're doing it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453046198306-5E9UF4XAK0XVYCB0ESJ3/berndsquirrelskinned-1024x768.jpg Blog - Who Was That Masked Naturalist? Ravens can't tear through animals' hides to get at the meat, so sometimes they have to peel the whole skin off. These are inside-out squirrel skins left behind by ravens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453046237838-5OI0W8FH9MYEX8EQTR3C/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Who Was That Masked Naturalist? Can't end on that gory note, so here is a raven snow angel that Bernd came across. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453046265036-CKFXXLGHAY8YSODNHMW0/insectshield-982x1024.jpg Blog - Who Was That Masked Naturalist? The tag on my shirt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453046348624-AAJU7JUCNQBGY1CCADXS/dragonfly-1024x768.jpg Blog - Who Was That Masked Naturalist? A dragonfly I photographed at our house a couple of summers ago. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/biking-on-siberian-pine monthly 0.5 2025-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453046559745-XS554D5WGOBBDC14YP9C/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Biking on Siberian Pine I took this shot inside the London Olympic velodrome on a visit last fall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453046601926-TWB2L46IVCU6GYBMVHNR/spotted-nutcracker.jpeg Blog - Biking on Siberian Pine The spotted nutcracker. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453046629336-BB64IAVU4D7KH2SSK0DQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Biking on Siberian Pine Siberian pine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453046729868-HJHOZWV9F05L96B4Y0O3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Biking on Siberian Pine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453046763712-0UQF0Q6GCPZSPR18G76A/snowcatcher-1024x826.jpg Blog - Biking on Siberian Pine A natural snowcatcher. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453046803560-U140WIFT65ORORQIZBOD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Biking on Siberian Pine Mouse? Vole? We weren't sure what made this little snow tunnel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453046868655-LE8O0UTFPKNMEGULPWK0/galileo.jpeg Blog - Biking on Siberian Pine Galileo Galilei https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453046892291-SCT4VSPUHJAN6FVXFY6I/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Biking on Siberian Pine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453046924957-NUV6B68UX676CD5VLPVV/isstracker.jpg Blog - Biking on Siberian Pine The orbital path of the International Space Station. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453046969592-7H7IOUUYCO9V5WZU23G6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Biking on Siberian Pine https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/of-farm-food-and-song monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/the-truth-about-cats-and-birds monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453051239717-KOKPAK2TAQ4LFG85LDZO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Truth About Cats and Birds Tjorven, the cat in the movie, lives indoors and outdoors—a combination that often ends badly for one animal or another. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453051290091-EVTFEQ7254WYB4HA9O6G/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Truth About Cats and Birds The photo from the American Bird Conservancy website shows why ABC and other wildlife organizations encourage cat owners to keep their kitties indoors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453051355046-Z5KAAIQHZ82JRBG7Q8MF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Truth About Cats and Birds Our indoor cats loved watching birds (an old illustration of mine—certainly not one of Pamelia's, which are infinitely better). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453051433003-R20QEOMFQSW9QZOSPVZT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Truth About Cats and Birds A former Sumatran rain forest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453051492149-31X9QBGZXAG5A9CLXVNS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Truth About Cats and Birds Click on the link below for more of Kristian Cvecek's firefly images. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453051555775-XUG54BWB9UNX65XROIVK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Truth About Cats and Birds Yes, this is what happens to a microwaved bar of Ivory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453051606058-E5BNBVU9GC0JRCRYIE2G/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Truth About Cats and Birds https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453051680935-F6Q2Q02WBHU3OLFACWD8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Truth About Cats and Birds Can you guess? https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/just-the-moon monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453051796364-JYP1V0FB6Q9AHKFRHQHG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Just the Moon https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/tweet-tweeting-a-porcupine-find-and-algae-for-rockets monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453051907578-23GE9LST0AP9EO9OXSKU/tweet-1024x742.jpg Blog - Tweet-Tweeting, A Porcupine Find and Algae for Rockets If I could just think of something to Tweet... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453051966542-N1PJUOA4BU4SEX8OV3OZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Tweet-Tweeting, A Porcupine Find and Algae for Rockets Orange teeth are a distinctive trait of porcupines and beavers. Those animals gnaw trees and plants not only for food (and dam-building in the case of beavers) but also to wear down their teeth, which grow constantly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453052015330-2W39BF9B0FQ2180TIIHZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Tweet-Tweeting, A Porcupine Find and Algae for Rockets Today's astronomical fun fact, as presented at the Natural History Museum in London. Saturn is only one-eighth as dense as the Earth. It's 88 percent hydrogen and 11 percent helium, which is why it's categorized as one of the gas giants of our solar system, along with Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune. To make sure it really would float, of course, we'd need a body of water large enough to hold a planet that is almost 10 times as big in diameter as the Earth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453052044561-ZH40ZLTNNXBYU7FIMVH4/iceondoor-768x1024.jpg Blog - Tweet-Tweeting, A Porcupine Find and Algae for Rockets Accidentally left a door ajar overnight and found the storm door beautifully frosted from moisture in the house. Punxatawney Phil the groundhog may have said that winter will end soon, but it's still plenty cold here in Maine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453052122612-GULRYQW5DG69WXOMW5XH/africamap-1024x768.jpg Blog - Tweet-Tweeting, A Porcupine Find and Algae for Rockets Modern humans first emerged in Africa, then migrated around the globe. Today there is a wider range of genetic diversity in Africans than in any other population. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/harry-potter-sings-about-the-elements monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453052269410-A5O0ED9NUZ9H54IV3Y72/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Harry Potter Sings About the Elements https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453052383326-G8GJ12QBB2CG646P6UEW/lobsterlouie-1024x768.jpg Blog - Harry Potter Sings About the Elements A precious few of you may recognize this as Louie the Lobster, whom we freed on the little-known (so far) Notebook holiday we call Lobster Independence Day. We do eat lobster, but we also try to give a few big ones (the best breeders, sometimes decades old) a better fate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453052436336-7LX2OM5E9D7K64LC9QHW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Harry Potter Sings About the Elements https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453052520210-DOTETJ2336YDG2HDYQE9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Harry Potter Sings About the Elements What is this? https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/painting-on-corn-starch-or-how-to-have-fun-with-a-non-newtonian-liquid monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453052710298-O21CE63GICI35X0VXHE9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Painting On Corn Starch (Or How to Have Fun with a Non-Newtonian Liquid) We used a strange corn starch and water mixture as our canvas and food coloring as our paint. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453052778868-D2KUH7JGRE2FHVHV9VY5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Painting On Corn Starch (Or How to Have Fun with a Non-Newtonian Liquid) From the surface emerged a blue bird's head, facing up, with its beak open. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453052839236-462JOPZP2FRIJJMAOUOY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Painting On Corn Starch (Or How to Have Fun with a Non-Newtonian Liquid) We spun the bowl to create spirals and other curling shapes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453052869670-ER4H89MT3WU3ZJ2EG873/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Painting On Corn Starch (Or How to Have Fun with a Non-Newtonian Liquid) We made prints by quickly patting paper on the surface. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453052900789-2X58WJ7694ZN183ZI25E/cornstarchbirdprint-1024x768.jpg Blog - Painting On Corn Starch (Or How to Have Fun with a Non-Newtonian Liquid) We made a bird print on a paper towel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453052940181-YIELRIFRXXMP4V5NDUOJ/cornstarchmarbled-1024x768.jpg Blog - Painting On Corn Starch (Or How to Have Fun with a Non-Newtonian Liquid) This print looked like marbled paper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453052972407-GC0GGTXCXF14G6CGXWDX/cornstarchart2lacy-1024x862.jpg Blog - Painting On Corn Starch (Or How to Have Fun with a Non-Newtonian Liquid) By drizzling a thin stream of the mixture on top, we created lacy, three-dimensional looks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453053010850-9PDME6F2UVXZFEPT1SR8/cornstarchspagdrizzle-1024x768.jpg Blog - Painting On Corn Starch (Or How to Have Fun with a Non-Newtonian Liquid) This looked like a bowl of spaghetti when we were done. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453053045449-Z0BEQOAM6ZOAJYOH75BW/cornstarchknife-1024x768.jpg Blog - Painting On Corn Starch (Or How to Have Fun with a Non-Newtonian Liquid) A pointed knife became a fine-haired paint brush. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453053077401-13NCYETA5GE68VUD49W3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Painting On Corn Starch (Or How to Have Fun with a Non-Newtonian Liquid) See if you can identify the changes in the Panthers' logo. The old one is on top. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453053167315-RSJQCNP2GT0WNHN1EGJL/serviceberry.jpg Blog - Painting On Corn Starch (Or How to Have Fun with a Non-Newtonian Liquid) Serviceberry blossoms https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/youve-just-found-a-stranded-seal-whale-or-dolphin-so-what-do-you-do monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453242479531-2OHCODYOEYYXU3YY4JA6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - You've Just Found a Stranded Seal, Whale or Dolphin. What Do You Do? I'm not saying that Pamelia and I are now ready to star in an animal-rescue version of Coast Guard Alaska, but a few hours in a college lecture hall at least gave us a basic knowledge of how to respond if we encounter a marine mammal in trouble. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453242586301-K4W8Q1BS2EQVSJ9J9KGH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - You've Just Found a Stranded Seal, Whale or Dolphin. What Do You Do? Nostril configuration can help distinguish gray seals (W shape) from harp seals (V shape). Because seals molt, change color while maturing, look different when dry or wet, and generally don't let you close enough to study their nostrils, identifying the type can be challenging even for experts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453242617289-QZR2J0Z8S27FW8G4GZ71/image-asset.jpeg Blog - You've Just Found a Stranded Seal, Whale or Dolphin. What Do You Do? Though gray and harp seals are part of a group called earless seals, they have internal ears and hear well, at least underwater. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453242643441-9NHFBKFAB0UDBV116YOA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - You've Just Found a Stranded Seal, Whale or Dolphin. What Do You Do? This is the so-called beater stage for a harp seal pup, so named because the pups are just learning to swim and tend to thrash in the water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453242669456-X9IO4XVI39R8SUEPPQPB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - You've Just Found a Stranded Seal, Whale or Dolphin. What Do You Do? One Adam 12, One Adam 12, we've got a situation with officers held at bay in Los Banos... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453242687921-TUZ7ZHONBFXVKA9P0SH7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - You've Just Found a Stranded Seal, Whale or Dolphin. What Do You Do? This stranded whale, which Allied Whale was called too late to help, didn't survive. When a whale is on land, away from the buoyancy of the water, its weight can quickly crush its internal organs. If it strands in warm weather, as this one did, its blubbery insides can rapidly cook and become an oily, gushy mess. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453242720254-X0CUPEO14LYD6DNKTBRN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - You've Just Found a Stranded Seal, Whale or Dolphin. What Do You Do? The fish people https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453242745442-LMGPPM8T0Y8RHJ0B3M4Y/image-asset.jpeg Blog - You've Just Found a Stranded Seal, Whale or Dolphin. What Do You Do? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453242766871-9OFRLWT38C089O0R1GNJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - You've Just Found a Stranded Seal, Whale or Dolphin. What Do You Do? A bower built from twigs by a male bowerbird. Note the shells, rocks and other objects placed in front of it to lure in a female. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/art-science-vision-microsculpture monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453242894888-QFC5XD38I4ST8RG0J66C/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Art + Science + Vision = Microsculpture I'll let you think up the caption for this one. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/an-amazing-bridge monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453242957506-MTGT68FT2HJOVF9YF1EG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Amazing Bridge A work of art and engineering, the Trench Bridge in the Netherlands, offers a baseball-dugout perspective on the water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453242987252-BVVHR3NU6CN4ILQI289S/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Amazing Bridge I need to ask my engineer brother why the sides of the bridge don't collapse from the weight of the water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453243015566-2EGE2YA5E3EDSPCG2E7J/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Amazing Bridge Our new mother and calf. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453243059780-001AM9ANX8UGUJFKFJFX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Amazing Bridge Is it just me, or do these rocks popping up through our ice make you think of dinosaur eggs hatching? O.K., it's just me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453243189381-VJ5X1IOIATGPPW8QZ5YV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Amazing Bridge earthcore https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453243219727-PJD91AMPUAW46ZZ8T8FY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Amazing Bridge The trench runs along the west coast of South America, suspiciously close to the Andes mountains. Hmmm....a clue? https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/ice-football-and-smart-women monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453243370127-FV4K8G9VUAA1UHKT5TUJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Ice, Football and Smart Women Subzero and single-digit temperatures have made Maine an icy place lately, even for ocean creatures like this sea star that live on our tidal doorstep. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453243395311-MGG84UL7M66CGJG83YU2/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Ice, Football and Smart Women These frozen disks in the low tide by our house are called pancake ice. Wave action makes them round. You see these pancakes floating in the cold waters of many northern oceans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453243479200-NTAPZ1R136173HAXI5NA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Ice, Football and Smart Women While working on projects in her studio, Pamelia shot this beautiful glimpse of a new piece we'll have at the Notebook this year. What is the piece? You'll have to wait and see. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453243510490-F920MMKYJG1M8IFJGT86/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Ice, Football and Smart Women Neon and New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning share number 10—suggesting, perhaps, that bright lights and another Super Bowl championship are in the Giants' future? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453243528832-DR2OVYRZ9LDJAGOKUMKP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Ice, Football and Smart Women https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453243558033-516NKM7RLKFDYMZU16FH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Ice, Football and Smart Women Sodium is found in both table salt and toxic drain cleaner, a dangerous range of possibilities for No. 11. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453243575854-MOFG0JEX4DL4QOMOFS16/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Ice, Football and Smart Women https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/where-a-forest-once-stood monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453244031459-G5C17RSUF8XMO0BYXA81/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Where a Forest Once Stood The now abandoned Lowe's in Ellsworth, Maine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453244060315-5H1L6UBVULF40TCVMG53/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Where a Forest Once Stood The forest at the edge of the parking lot offers a glimpse of what once covered the hilltop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453244077696-KL188POXSKREV7SZUK23/bigboxreuse.jpeg Blog - Where a Forest Once Stood Julia Christensen's book https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/the-blue-jay-and-the-ant monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453244226801-BR5LNL8B2DV3K4NEQ0JG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Blue Jay and the Ant https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/how-do-you-mend-a-broken-toe monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453244517551-7VGO41Y6HF2D3T6I3R2X/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How Do You Mend a Broken Toe? My homemade X-ray. The one from the hospital wasn't blog-friendly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453244539605-5FJEMU9JTBEUUVTBG3WQ/aeschylus.jpg Blog - How Do You Mend a Broken Toe? Aeschylus, before the tortoise. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453244652266-BGRVDGG5354IACAS845E/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How Do You Mend a Broken Toe? Old and fossilized bones have enabled scientists to piece together the history of animal life on Earth—including the rise of a number of other species of humans (all of which went extinct, leaving only homo sapiens). On the left is a cast of the left foot of a homo habilis, a species discovered by the renowned Louis and Mary Leakey. We saw it at the natural history museum in Oxford. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453245076771-8NGLYLKCTJYF1YF0NTK9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How Do You Mend a Broken Toe? A delicate fractal pattern made by the waves at Seal Harbor beach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453245123932-TNCX96TJZXQE5X6G3ENB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How Do You Mend a Broken Toe? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453245154177-UK3UCK9SK5G3M7451SE8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How Do You Mend a Broken Toe? Christian Jurgensen Thomsen https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/marching-back-to-the-office monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453245240964-A0L9GCNYPUTWCMLN1U1D/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Marching Back to the Office https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/happy-2012 monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453245465760-DSXYJBIQ33OHMBBCM9P5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Happy 2012 https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/8-hours-54-minutes-of-sun monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453245620862-SQ35P45UORVKR3TLY65V/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 8 Hours, 54 Minutes of Sun As the Winter Solstice nears, sunrise moves closer to its southernmost point—from our view, just to the right of the peak of Sargent Mountain. That's Cadillac Mountain farther left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453245663562-8IC0W6KUNY30OL842ILX/image-asset.gif Blog - 8 Hours, 54 Minutes of Sun We're now in the stage shown at the far left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453245740920-YGJMDYX3P7YO23WRYA00/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 8 Hours, 54 Minutes of Sun One of the rarer titles on my home bookshelf, this tome about the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea tells how that DMZ has become an accidental nature preserve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453245811677-N5CP35YX51X2TDWQHRPE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 8 Hours, 54 Minutes of Sun I found this shell in Italy last year when Pamelia and I were at artist Margaret Krug's Seeing and Drawing workshop at Spannocchia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453245854001-MWWV6ZPUNZPDO441EG65/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 8 Hours, 54 Minutes of Sun https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/sloths-come-to-tv monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453245993020-90IHYHYPMYA9JKOCJ4W1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Sloths Come to TV Here's the giant ground sloth we saw in London. These now-extinct mammals were more than 12 feet tall when they stood erect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453246019317-ZWY5S8P43F2Y81OPVBIR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Sloths Come to TV All right, I know you wanted to see it. So here's the kid, named Mini, that we nearly took home with us from a goat farm a couple of years ago. Could you have resisted? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453246326314-WKZM6CHX8IB7BDN9M0J4/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Sloths Come to TV If the sloth represents one end of the indolence scale, this fellow tree-dweller must signify the other. The industrious hairy woodpecker we've been observing lately is turning this former evergreen into pulp at a rate of up to 20 hammer-pecks per second. Nature's little drummer boy? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453246098154-AW5WN2L2Z2U01QSLFFCD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Sloths Come to TV The other day I came across this photo I shot in New York (I think) last year. Can't remember where, but I loved the scientific precision of the chocolate chip analysis. How many chips would it take to power you if you walked a mile to the gym? I'll let you do the math. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453246137830-5OUNWGVDG1CYYQWQOX5B/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Sloths Come to TV I'll give you one for your bird list: the European robin. We photographed this one in England in October. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/charitable-thoughts monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453499665529-FGDDGCHYIBPZOBAQZQH5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Charitable Thoughts One of Virginia's photos from her time at the Highland Farm Gibbon Sanctuary in Thailand. As a holiday gift, you can help fund the care of an orphaned or abandoned gibbon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453499695748-POSJGH28Q9QM9PXMGEMW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Charitable Thoughts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453499750640-6ZT8CES0FZSO9ZVV9M79/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Charitable Thoughts https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/show-20-slides-talk-for-20-seconds-per-slide-tell-us-something-fascinating-go monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453500177136-BFRQYRHR1FR3YGDWE4WE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Show 20 Slides, Talk for 20 Seconds Per Slide, Tell Us Something Fascinating. Go! One attendee at Down East Pecha Kucha Night concisely summed up the essence of the fun, fast, brain-stimulating event. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453500318039-JP4RU3KUFO39IN7RQH9S/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Show 20 Slides, Talk for 20 Seconds Per Slide, Tell Us Something Fascinating. Go! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453500343183-WRANANQBV7T7QM7CEKO7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Show 20 Slides, Talk for 20 Seconds Per Slide, Tell Us Something Fascinating. Go! We gathered in cozy old Hammond Hall, which has been repaired and revived by Schoodic Arts for All. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453500519291-FEFBGP4POPY5TRA9NBZM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Show 20 Slides, Talk for 20 Seconds Per Slide, Tell Us Something Fascinating. Go! While adrift, the author had to jerryrig ways to stay afloat and alive. His Pecha Kucha presentation was aptly entitled Survival: The Mother of the Mother of Invention. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453500545726-U5E293C56LTJZZVOIHDB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Show 20 Slides, Talk for 20 Seconds Per Slide, Tell Us Something Fascinating. Go! One of the illustrations Steve did that was inspired by—but not meant to be a literal interpretation of—his time at sea. I love the ultra-dark starry sky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453500594262-ILV1PH5LRUSWNGUF6ND7/whalestails.jpg Blog - Show 20 Slides, Talk for 20 Seconds Per Slide, Tell Us Something Fascinating. Go! For researchers, the discovery of unique patterns on the underside of whales' tails was fluke luck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453500627620-RRAGMX29QB8L6747SUKI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Show 20 Slides, Talk for 20 Seconds Per Slide, Tell Us Something Fascinating. Go! Gail brought these huge and surprisingly heavy bones, which came from the fin of a finback whale. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453500654519-XP7EQPMCUAY4MQCSPE0Q/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Show 20 Slides, Talk for 20 Seconds Per Slide, Tell Us Something Fascinating. Go! Gail also showed us this small piece of baleen, the structure whales use to filter food such as krill from sea water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453500696566-4JNALYN9ZNO7ND8V8XR6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Show 20 Slides, Talk for 20 Seconds Per Slide, Tell Us Something Fascinating. Go! Blake, a fount of creative inspiration, had the hall in hysterics with his deadpan presentation about the mini-moose—or mini-muse—who snuck into his house, invited in a hundred mini-moose friends, and took Hendrickson on an extraordinary adventure of imagination. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453500726926-PL2A8UBS5MHU1JBEUE3E/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Show 20 Slides, Talk for 20 Seconds Per Slide, Tell Us Something Fascinating. Go! The many Maine mini-moose were mini-muses for Blake, and as you can see here, they also helped him plant a garden and harvest and cook the organic veggies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453500766320-3TDB8XIEUPER5NMYHE3C/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Show 20 Slides, Talk for 20 Seconds Per Slide, Tell Us Something Fascinating. Go! In perhaps the most serious yet inspiring talk of the night, Florence described the devastating effects of slash-and-burn agriculture on Central American forests—and how Sustainable Harvest International has educated subsistence farmers about more Earth-friendly methods of growing their food. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453500792951-0069T50SP4RAWROS87BG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Show 20 Slides, Talk for 20 Seconds Per Slide, Tell Us Something Fascinating. Go! One of Florence's initiatives provides families with simple stoves that reduce reliance on wood and save (mostly) women from inhaling the equivalent of five packs of cigarette smoke a day from open cooking fires. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453500820764-BPFDGS8KWNTHMMIFHXJH/pulpfiction.jpg Blog - Show 20 Slides, Talk for 20 Seconds Per Slide, Tell Us Something Fascinating. Go! From a presentation by young Nick Rucker , I learned that the pulp magazine industry was started by a Mainer named Frank Munsey. Nick has drawn inspiration from Munsey in his planned launch of an online equivalent of a pulp magazine, to be called Kaika. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453500878232-8I11ROTO4VJ6G6PI9HN0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Show 20 Slides, Talk for 20 Seconds Per Slide, Tell Us Something Fascinating. Go! Other presenters enlightened us about topics such as stone sculpting and furniture making, but only Shep Erhart of Maine Coast Sea Vegetables, who has been sustainably harvesting seaweeds for 40 years, fed us food as well as ideas. He brought along samples of his company's products, from chips to Kelp Crunch, all of them quite tasty. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/science-driven-fashion-as-envisioned-in-the-1930s monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453501043857-M591HOO8ZUR6OM4N680H/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Science-Driven Fashion (As Envisioned in the 1930s) This kinglet flitted around the same tree that holds one of our feeders, but didn't have any interest in bird seed. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/day-at-the-zoo monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453501368962-AVLV8NQBUJWQOV8Q8FJU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Day at the Zoo Is the coast clear? These giraffes checked out their surroundings before greeting us. I've been reading lately about the world's tallest animals and discovered that they give birth while standing up (the newborns fall five feet to the ground), have 21-inch-long tongues, chew their regurgitated plant-matter cuds (and have four stomachs) like cows, and despite being 14 to 19 feet tall have the same number of neck vertebrae as we humans and most other mammals do (seven). Unlike us humans they can't cough—presumably the only reason you haven't seen a hacking giraffe in what would have been history's greatest Halls commercial. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453501400285-UO7D9PDNVLGS4NGAXNQ3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Day at the Zoo This African purple glossy starling gave us a chatty earful and a yellow eyeful. The iridescence of its feathers comes from light hitting specially structured granules of melanin, the same pigment that largely determines human skin color. I suspect we would be rather scary looking if our skin were iridescent and we had irises the color of New York taxis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453501431982-V6Z4XGI1GNXUWEZMO9QR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Day at the Zoo This Victorian-era post box at the zoo now begs not for mail but for donations to save tigers. The latest National Geographic has an excellent section on how we might yet save not only the world's desperately endangered tigers but also other big cats. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453501457450-0VCFIGYBAKUX3D4RLVLE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Day at the Zoo This Sumatran tiger snoozed through our visit, but presumably would be pleased to know that the zoo is building a much larger tiger enclosure that will try to recreate an Indonesian rainforest environment and will open in early 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453501504206-OMY2FOVFO0V8HSR4GHC1/londonruppellsgriffonvulture.jpg Blog - Day at the Zoo We tend to think of vultures as ugly, but this Ruppell's griffon vulture, a native of Africa, had an elegant beauty. In the air these birds are even more remarkable: A Ruppell's holds the record for the greatest flying height ever recorded by a bird—one collided with an airplane at 37,000 feet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453501606806-Y94PVDZD8XDOTX386X02/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Day at the Zoo I made this same comparison with my hand last year at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, but I couldn't resist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453501663914-6VWM07L4M2ENW60ONP93/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Day at the Zoo The zoo is part of an international breeding program for western lowlands gorillas like this contemplative character, who seemed to yearn for something more than the climbing ropes and sheets at his glassed-in home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453501691655-22Z0K0KDH3E1BI8UQQ47/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Day at the Zoo This is a terrible photo (camera focused on the fence), but the color of these scarlet ibises was phenomenal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453501769681-MXFWV3ZHW7AGQVRBHGAI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Day at the Zoo Here's the mechanical bird clock in front of the zoo's Blackburn Pavilion. You have to check out the video below that we shot when the clock struck 4 p.m. We missed the very beginning but stick with it to the end, when more things happen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453501891087-5PHCQN0GXS709G4O5107/ad.jpg Blog - Day at the Zoo https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/otherworldly-dry-ice-art monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453645621274-F1F1VVD0L5J5QPWVFGTS/dryiceart.jpg Blog - Otherworldly Dry Ice Art Is this a distant galaxy or tiny chunks of frozen carbon dioxide swirling across a thin layer of water? I guess the headline gives it away. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453645661358-X4KJKX728U68ONUA2RC5/dryiceart1.jpg Blog - Otherworldly Dry Ice Art Each piece of dry ice changed from solid to gas in less than a minute. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453645719319-H12BOWZ01DA321E9NTXH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Otherworldly Dry Ice Art Here's how the installation worked: Pieces of dry ice fell from an elevated runway (right) onto the water and immediately reacted by spiraling and rocketing across the surface in a vivid release of energy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453645779301-VU1NE5ZJUS9VE44SOFK8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Otherworldly Dry Ice Art Like the works of Andy Goldsworthy, the patterns were gorgeous but ephemeral; the image changed constantly, then dissolved to plain black. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453645827608-1AFZENVBLHYZZCQWTRFM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Otherworldly Dry Ice Art Some of the pieces at the edges looked like comets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453645893235-QP1ILUEY4SOW9KWO8Y8A/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Otherworldly Dry Ice Art Why would oak, Japanese maple and rugosa rose leaves all fall off en masse on the same morning? https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/gymnastic-gibbons monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/cockles-and-starlings monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453646157416-NBT9VPMM7EKKGCPJ7DRG/cockles1.jpg Blog - Cockles and Starlings Where better than England to warm the cockles of your heart? We didn't eat any, but in case you're wondering, cockles are small clams. The warm-your-cockles reference comes from a Latin term for heart ventricles, cochleae cordis, which physicians in the 1600s thought resembled clams. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453646244613-NEIWQTWUFEDHG3UNTIR9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Cockles and Starlings OMG indeed! This Oxford lunch special would have been jarring fare for the March Hare at Alice's tea party. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453646388945-OH1KCE277QG2CPQ1YJRS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Cockles and Starlings Pamelia follows the trail of Megalosaurus prints (casts of prints, actually) across the front lawn at Oxford's natural history museum toward the Ghost Forest. On our trip we felt as though we were constantly walking in the equally large footsteps of great naturalists. The world's first identified dinosaur skeleton was found near Oxford in the early 1800s. The very word dinosaur (meaning terrible lizard) was coined by British biologist Richard Owen a few decades later. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453646444642-OI3SU0ESVQNPC3P970W9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Cockles and Starlings The Oxford dodo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453646473062-R9NKI6GUL81YIKY6GMLR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Cockles and Starlings Relaxing with a 100-million-year-old pal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453646513512-V5WZRL3KSWOJ95WOMB5C/oxfordskeletonsjpg.jpg Blog - Cockles and Starlings The museum's architectural bones are nearly as striking as those of its stampede of great mammals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453646543858-ZCJSB8L4OSE38S6TL51A/birdweathermap.jpg Blog - Cockles and Starlings The bird migration forecast from the BBC's prime-time (and charmingly low-budget) nature show—wish we had a program like this in the States. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453646676733-76B57XCMCKL9CGVRA04B/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Cockles and Starlings Our aerial adventure involved a Virgin Atlantic jet, not a 150-million-year-old Archaeopteryx, but this model of the latter was another highlight of the Oxford museum. The Archaeopteryx, sometimes referred to as the first bird, was more likely (though scientists are still debating this) a transitional species between dinosaurs and birds. I posted a photo of a famous Archaeopteryx fossil last fall from our Pacific Flyway road trip through the western U.S. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453646719115-IPJA5FKM024QSGZGDODF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Cockles and Starlings Pamelia and I hiked through woods and farm fields on a network of public footpaths that was marked, though not always with complete clarity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453646754110-UNUCQT8YY87USBVJHD4R/boardingcattery.jpg Blog - Cockles and Starlings We ambled past a kitty kennel with a name straight out of Harry Potter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453646785466-B8TYJQTELL3X9JRY55OD/potatochiptype.jpg Blog - Cockles and Starlings How's this for a revealing label: Our bag of potato chips—er, potato crisps—identified the type of spud and the region in which it was grown. If extended to all foods, wouldn't that approach make everyone think a bit more about what they eat? https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/off-to-england monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453646899361-6Y6VTQB3G1R41K44FPBA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Off to England In the shadow of Bath's famous abbey, the geothermal waters still bubble up. These ancient Roman baths were once covered by a massive roof; now sunlight has allowed algae to grow, turning the waters a lovely, if uninviting, green. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453646942422-EYUU2XBC59FNIFLMAMFQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Off to England Bath sits on the River Avon—or rather, on one River Avon; Britain has at least five others, including the one on which Shakespeare lived. The popularity of the name has a simple explanation: Avon is a Celtic word that means river. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453646977214-YXUPTO7ILOGXJZ2WNFEQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Off to England We visited the former home of William and Caroline Herschel in Bath and stood on the spot (in a raised backyard garden) from which William—the greatest astronomer most Americans have never heard of—looking through his homemade, 7-foot-long wooden telescope, discovered Uranus. He called it the Georgian planet, after King George III, but other European star-gazers won the battle to officially christen it, and named it after the father of Saturn and grandfather of Jupiter in Roman mythology. Herschel later used a piece of crystal glass from a chandelier in the house to split the sun's rays and discover infrared light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453647012757-899ITL5HFL6QF0I66QSS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Off to England An hour's drive took us from Bath through postcard-perfect farmland to wind-blown Stonehenge. What you can't see in the photo are the surrounding fields of sheep and the busy motorway that runs past. Many crows were flying around the nearly 5,000-year-old formation, adding a bit of spookiness. The scene (apart from the highway) is really quite beautiful, and the light plays off the sandstone and bluestone blocks in interesting ways, highlighting their character and color. A botanically-minded British guide informed us that more than 90 types of lichen—which she pronounced litchen—grow on the stones. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453647041338-7JM6WBMMCPUAIIWECSML/tanksign2.jpg Blog - Off to England Unexpected sign on the road to Stonehenge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453647070420-XRCW9AQR5JXJKVUEMSNO/romancurse1.jpg Blog - Off to England Don't sweat the small things? That apparently wasn't a common phrase (translated into Latin) in ancient Rome. This is one of several curse tablets on display in the Roman baths museum. People who were upset at somebody would inscribe a curse on a sheet of lead or pewter, fold the sheet and drop it into the sacred spring for the gods to act upon. One typically peeved individual whose gloves had been stolen wrote a road-rage-worthy curse instructing the gods that the culprit should lose his mind and his eyes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453647098483-K2CYGLEIJ0XSVLANBQAW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Off to England In some of the fields outside Bath, elephant grass is being grown to be turned into biofuel. With its vastly superior mass transit system, more fuel-efficient cars and willingness to address environmental problems such as global climate change, Britain seems a large step ahead of the U.S. in trying to protect the planet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453647126569-WQC1HTMUUU4WWD1QXYDB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Off to England We liked the green-minded topiary in a park in Bath. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/double-double-total-rainbows monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453647269041-Z4QAQ51U94VMLLBQNXCS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Double-Double Total Rainbows This was part of the SECOND double rainbow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453647311008-6M18BYLCS7WBKV1Z4V9S/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Double-Double Total Rainbows My camera's lens didn't have a wide enough angle to show the whole first 'bow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453647338264-WPDCOMGXDD5TC5DG52AK/rainbowleft.jpg Blog - Double-Double Total Rainbows So first I'll show you the left hand side... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453647371883-8DWI6U5EJY7U7C71UTDA/rainbowright.jpg Blog - Double-Double Total Rainbows ...and then I'll show you the right-hand side... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453647428163-KSXRUMJ74FL6DJAB9WNQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Double-Double Total Rainbows ...and then the first double rainbow... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453647457971-V372GEFURTM1VBBSK6NW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Double-Double Total Rainbows ...and then the second double rainbow, which arrived 10 minutes later, after another rain squall. This rainbow appeared to reach almost to our doorstep. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/welcome-to-october-of-the-year-13700002011 monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453647623810-N0HW1IPI3ZNQS455M1CQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Welcome to October of the Year...13,700,002,011? A new book we're selling that puts scale in perspective. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453647703757-R5ZF7QQK5L9GLV83YGBZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Welcome to October of the Year...13,700,002,011? Migrant birds have been passing through this part of coastal Maine. We've seen flocks of warblers—different types that have included the yellow-rumped variety and others we've struggled to identify (warblers aren't always easy). This looked to us like a young bird making his (or her) first migration. Any idea what type? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453647733246-K3A60GUWIQLEKJJO9S8Z/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Welcome to October of the Year...13,700,002,011? Another of the migrants that stopped by our house. This one looked like a yellow-rumped warbler...please correct me, ornithologists. And a reminder: Fill your feeders to help the birds make it safely through the hundreds or thousands of miles ahead of them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453647774422-PHL1KT825WBBL35I2RAR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Welcome to October of the Year...13,700,002,011? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453647850676-NXBWIN61VU65LKIZNBHN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Welcome to October of the Year...13,700,002,011? The standings before the Tigers' final-month surge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453647884615-VTLA9IDETQ92P7OE15F0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Welcome to October of the Year...13,700,002,011? Kids continue to do chalk drawings in the Cave Room at the Notebook—a case of art imitating life. There was news this week that archaeologists have found evidence of 13,000-year-old cave paintings of mammoths, horses and other animals done in France by children estimated to be between 3 and 7 years old. The telltale evidence is the size of the fingers used to create the art, some of which was described as cartoon-like. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453647919573-9Z0OYIEM7VY4EH3U0HNK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Welcome to October of the Year...13,700,002,011? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453648022265-8VFV47NMTHD8HRGZ4FI3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Welcome to October of the Year...13,700,002,011? Our friend Dave, who works on archaeological digs, came over at 5 a.m. one day this week to walk out into the super-low tide and view what we believe is a Native American relic. It is a square stone construction that emerges in extreme low tides, as it did this week. We know that Native Americans inhabited this area for thousands of years, at least in the summertime (catching and preserving fish, clams, mussels and other seafood), but we're not sure how this stone setup was used. Sea levels were much lower during the most recent Ice Age, so this part of the bay floor may have been dry land at the time when the Native Americans built the stone structure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453648054535-S93YZ5G5MUST386I9R92/stone1.jpg Blog - Welcome to October of the Year...13,700,002,011? Another shot of the stone configuration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453648092516-7O4JRGYWP1FYRBUXSCSA/snakeonroad.jpg Blog - Welcome to October of the Year...13,700,002,011? The roads have been filled of late with caterpillars, snakes, frogs and other creatures trying to cross to the other side. Alas, this geometrically elegant garter snake, only a few inches long, didn't make it. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/the-seal-harbor-roadblock monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453655095467-RT3CTZ6GA6GLJ9HUHYXX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Seal Harbor Roadblock https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453655127409-18ZIXFAJX5PL829KUF2E/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Seal Harbor Roadblock I asked the road construction company to put up signs telling drivers that our village is still up and running. Unfortunately, only drivers who get within half a mile of the Notebook even see these signs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453655172424-HQ1LU5RRQUEMNIK1WCQ1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Seal Harbor Roadblock The Notebook has a great little book called The Cloud Collector's Handbook, which turns cloud-watching into something of a sport, complete with a scorekeeping system. At sunset last Saturday, Pamelia and I saw these fair-weather cirrus clouds (20 points) swirling over Sand Beach in Acadia National Park. Cirrus clouds are the highest variety, usually found 20,000 to 40,000 feet above the ground and made entirely of ice crystals. Their resemblance to white, wispy tendrils of hair earned them the name cirrus, a Latin word meaning curl or curl of hair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453655288084-E572VVDN42PJU8TYWVIR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Seal Harbor Roadblock Based on the distinctive bark, can you tell what type of tree is this? https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/birds-dark-skies-doc-holliday-and-the-new-honey-champion monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453655437760-XPHAAA3A4N4AL02ZADM9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Birds, Dark Skies, Doc Holliday and the New Honey Champion Pamelia and I saw a small gull while out kayaking that we think was a Bonaparte's gull. Note the distinctive dark spot on the head behind the eye. I was curious why a gull would have been named after the French emperor—the bird's diminutive size, perhaps?—but I discovered that its namesake was actually a nephew of Napoleon's, renowned 19th century naturalist and ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte, who lived part of his adult life in Philadelphia. In fact, the gull's scientific name is Larus philadelphia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453655468491-JY8RHDYIOXK88THE9R1A/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Birds, Dark Skies, Doc Holliday and the New Honey Champion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453655519198-3ASWN978CQMF59SIENKS/anf.jpg Blog - Birds, Dark Skies, Doc Holliday and the New Honey Champion You can purchase this poster for the Acadia Night Sky Festival by going to the website shown above. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453655619242-HQDBHV9YJW5K9F037ULJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Birds, Dark Skies, Doc Holliday and the New Honey Champion A shot from one of our past visits to the Common Ground Fair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453655690802-SKQ6ITXF2070QDBK31CP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Birds, Dark Skies, Doc Holliday and the New Honey Champion The fair is known for its display of rare heritage apples–believe it or not, Maine used to have 10,000 varieties. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453655770977-OMVRLC54G5JXT38GWPTF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Birds, Dark Skies, Doc Holliday and the New Honey Champion I love this sign. which warned fair visitors not to stick their hands into the horse stables. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453655846926-U8E4GQC2I5AF66NITHZ4/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Birds, Dark Skies, Doc Holliday and the New Honey Champion The 2011 honey-tasting champion. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/sea-dogs-and-seahawks-novae-and-911 monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453936555579-UA0M67LCZNI0J1KBTUIS/sealface.jpg Blog - Sea Dogs and Seahawks, 'Novas and 9/11 This curious seal surfaced near the kayak and studied us for almost a minute. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453936586650-UGVBXD2XY5IYUXS0DWQB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Sea Dogs and Seahawks, 'Novas and 9/11 Zooming in on a distant, wobbly photo of some of the seals hanging out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453936651075-Q1G1YN2S8LHXDAEZMV39/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Sea Dogs and Seahawks, 'Novas and 9/11 One of the ospreys zooming down on its prey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453936687457-TS8RLCES8GL7GIOQEDKD/seattle-seahawks-logo.jpg Blog - Sea Dogs and Seahawks, 'Novas and 9/11 The fierce symbol of the Seattle Ospreys...I mean Seahawks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453936739284-GQWHP5X6A31JA9WSBMUA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Sea Dogs and Seahawks, 'Novas and 9/11 A monarch on the island of milkweed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453936776165-R3TGNPAJODF1CFVHJ4CL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Sea Dogs and Seahawks, 'Novas and 9/11 Speaking of Wooster, she is healing well after her recent medical issues, but she really appreciated a lift during a recent hike on Mount Desert Island. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453936820140-D866DBU1XXXS15V77Y2F/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Sea Dogs and Seahawks, 'Novas and 9/11 The supernova is marked in this Palomar observatory shot from Peter Nugent and the Palomar Transient Factory https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453936873829-G1Q72GXU018WTN2BTF9M/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Sea Dogs and Seahawks, 'Novas and 9/11 Up here in Maine, mushrooms seem to be sprouting everywhere. This lovely one (can you identify the type?) didn't look edible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453936923051-HUC3IXHLYYJJVZF21LMT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Sea Dogs and Seahawks, 'Novas and 9/11 On close inspection, the moth appeared to have an unruly head of hair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453936964963-KZ0VPRF44XJ2NWN8LLCM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Sea Dogs and Seahawks, 'Novas and 9/11 Nice brows, eh? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453937032841-HW79TQW9HITDWWYTZ5UL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Sea Dogs and Seahawks, 'Novas and 9/11 https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/crazy-sneakers-and-changing-seasons monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453937378149-2R1SCGV3V2ZZXFWPF97D/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Crazy Sneakers and Changing Seasons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453937412070-0YZPUW0BPGKLNEA73CDV/sneakers2.jpg Blog - Crazy Sneakers and Changing Seasons The sneaks are fully customized. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453937460202-5EA0FKFBAM5NCRU2HLIG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Crazy Sneakers and Changing Seasons Pamelia took in the view toward Seal Harbor and the Atlantic as we climbed the Beachcroft Trail up Huguenot Head on Mount Desert Island. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453937514512-LRE7PPRQ6DCFIQB6JKN9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Crazy Sneakers and Changing Seasons Periwinkle snails were stacked up everywhere, including atop clam shells, when we wandered through the low tide zone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453937564129-UDBAMN67ZNIHXF7WJ9NM/hipporhino.jpg Blog - Crazy Sneakers and Changing Seasons Maine safari? A visiting four-year-old created this museum-worthy diorama this week on an outdoor table. Both hippos and rhinos are herbivores who sustain their multi-ton bodies by eating grass (hippos) or grass, buds, leaves and fruit (rhinos). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453937603664-BMM4SPDGNO1IU6TM9CWR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Crazy Sneakers and Changing Seasons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453937677453-ZT0GJVSUWH3A5FORTJNN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Crazy Sneakers and Changing Seasons Some of the migrating waterfowl we saw at the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge last fall. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/wild-and-windy monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453937942217-6GTP2Y54EFOSA1VFHUV7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Wild and Windy As the storm moved through late in the afternoon, gulls and even a bald eagle glided over the bay, riding winds that were 35 mph and stronger. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453937971358-6NJQJQ6DIEDYB8U3JH65/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Wild and Windy I tried to capture the force of yesterday's wind in still photos. The sound—the roar—was as impressive as the sight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453938017615-200GBOJYNJ7W15392ECF/turkeychicks.jpg Blog - Wild and Windy We knew the storm was easing when some wild turkey moms brought their chicks out to feed on our lawn. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/hurricane-irene monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453938171520-PFHVUES8FENW8CN9R83W/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Hurricane Irene What does a storm surge look like along the Maine coast? I took this photo two winters ago at Thunder Hole, the popular tourist spot in Acadia National Park. A Nor'easter had just passed through. That walkway in the middle of the photo is usually crowded with visitors, not buried under a crashing wave. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453938210724-DEAD3OQD9ULQG6FBO0T9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Hurricane Irene Kids who took part in our Jane Goodall Day activities at the Notebook painted chimp masks, created shadow puppets and celebrated the life of the great naturalist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453938261500-HQIOFIVG5BM6JBXHEOAH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Hurricane Irene One of several chimp illustrations done for the event by Kathy Coe, the portrait painter who teaches our children's art classes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453938295977-5SBEF40AQZ81BXCGK2FY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Hurricane Irene A shadow puppet of Jane Goodall looking through her binoculars at some of the chimps in the Gombe reserve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453938351383-Y03WIYLIUYGONQVERVDL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Hurricane Irene Lilian discussed everything from conservation technology to Jane Goodall's 300-day-a-year travel schedule to the problem of poachers killing chimpanzees for bushmeat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453938385689-E4Q7EULPWV6CPI2AW40Q/img_0933.jpg Blog - Hurricane Irene Lilian, his wife, Anna, their five-week-old daughter, River....and another of Kathy's exquisite chimp illustrations. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/come-to-our-thursday-night-talk-saving-the-chimpanzee monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453938518156-72Q1Q2L7EFO2MI9140ZK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Come to Our Thursday Night Talk: Saving the Chimpanzee https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453938556067-XHH7G8OP45A6V7JLR6IT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Come to Our Thursday Night Talk: Saving the Chimpanzee Where else but the Notebook can you play games that help you learn about chimpanzees? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453938606972-1QC8B5CBWR06O4E13X6K/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Come to Our Thursday Night Talk: Saving the Chimpanzee https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453938660821-FD3FRSHMJW66SC80ILFZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Come to Our Thursday Night Talk: Saving the Chimpanzee Call us crazy (you won't be the first), but Pamelia and I held our fourth annual Lobster Independence Day festivities on Monday night at our house. Each year, to show appreciation for our favorite crustacean, we release two large female lobsters that've we've bought at a local pound. We talk with our guests about the life cycle of lobsters (and how older females produce far more eggs than younger ones), we make up lobster poems and songs, and sometimes we attach extra meaning to the two freed lobsters. This year we named them Pam and Paula for the late mothers of Pamelia and our friend Kathy. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/how-to-draw-a-world-map-in-30-seconds monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453938864433-49CKSMQNRZ8YKVOBUR4R/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Draw a World Map in 30 Seconds Lily the 12-year-old camerawoman and Anthea the 14-year-old reporter ventured inside the mobile greenhouse to interview Compass Green co-founder Nick Runkle for our Earth News kid-reporter program. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453938907675-GXGXNYL483KA8KCDHK0D/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Draw a World Map in 30 Seconds Justin adjusted his talk to connect with everyone in the audience, from professional gardeners to backyard planters to complete novices. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453938959583-OIGZU71A8WF8HXSHKF6M/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Draw a World Map in 30 Seconds This workshop attendee was particular interested in Justin's description of a gardening technique called double digging. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453938997347-E7LFSPL4YCSUS1I0I7K0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Draw a World Map in 30 Seconds Happy travels to the Compass Green team of (from left) Britten Chroman, Andrew Runkle, Nick Runkle and Justin Cutter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453939034669-G0F7DMHI843HX223OZDL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Draw a World Map in 30 Seconds Part of a portrait workshop led yesterday afternoon by gifted artist and teacher Kathy Coe, who will be running our children's art workshops for only one more week before heading home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453939077641-GAP45B4YI1ARTI97BR56/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Draw a World Map in 30 Seconds Eight-year-old Sarah (not pictured) became the youngest workshop leader in Notebook history this week when she taught other kids how to make nature-themed sun prints. She also became the first workshop leader in Notebook history to lead participants in a celebratory jellyfish dance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453939141982-HG5RQ7ZUVAAGYRCYWO26/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Draw a World Map in 30 Seconds Jordan Pond last evening, at the end of our busy workshop day. The pond provides not only drinking water for Seal Harbor and a lovely setting for the famous Jordan Pond House (the only restaurant located within Acadia National Park) but also a pristine hangout for the occasional American black duck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453939181564-JRSL444Q12RV07WJHIN8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Draw a World Map in 30 Seconds https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453939267431-DXF01VRHWSDYNZJIGF1O/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Draw a World Map in 30 Seconds Meteorology quiz: What type of cloud formation did we see when we looked out at this scene by our house this week? https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/coming-to-the-notebook-on-saturday-an-eco-smart-gardening-workshop-and-a-greenhouse-on-wheels monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453939447586-X5ULH3DBID2MCMJH9DWW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Coming to the Notebook On Saturday: An Eco-Smart Gardening Workshop and a Greenhouse on Wheels Justin and Nick with their waste-vegetable-oil-powered educational greenhouse on wheels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453939482218-RZGTFKR8G7KDGD9DZBC6/img_0679.jpg Blog - Coming to the Notebook On Saturday: An Eco-Smart Gardening Workshop and a Greenhouse on Wheels Justin and crew teach children how food is grown and how good farming methods can help sustain the planet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453939515293-W4MF2ES8X2FY9EDA33HZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Coming to the Notebook On Saturday: An Eco-Smart Gardening Workshop and a Greenhouse on Wheels Inside the mobile greenhouse with Nick and some young sprouts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453939560378-ZASFVYGSOBB22KFQP4WJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Coming to the Notebook On Saturday: An Eco-Smart Gardening Workshop and a Greenhouse on Wheels We took a break to climb Gorham Mountain, overlooking Sand Beach in Acadia National Park. Hazel the sweet labradoodle was plenty excited, as was our young friend Harrison, a visitor from Paris. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1453939609051-ADEBKFQJ7O9RDGKNP242/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Coming to the Notebook On Saturday: An Eco-Smart Gardening Workshop and a Greenhouse on Wheels Our pop-up workshop on encaustic painting—an ancient technique that uses melted beeswax—was a hit thanks to instructor Dina Helal, a Notebook friend from the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/quite-a-week-grasshopper monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454023497366-VODDYWM57P3HV8MV15VM/grasshoppercn.jpg Blog - Quite a Week, Grasshopper Pamelia and I took a break from the Notebook nuttiness by visiting a teenage naturalist at her family's small farm in Southwest Harbor. We crossed a field that that was jumpin' with crickets and grasshoppers. Win a free Bug Bite chocolate if you can identify this beautiful specimen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454023533329-ZYOMNYNEOXJ6LFJ1GWGP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Quite a Week, Grasshopper Here's Jessie in action. When in Africa she often trains in a whitewater section of the Nile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454023649596-E7ISCN5WVQD7IIIKVHDP/lynnjenningscard.jpg Blog - Quite a Week, Grasshopper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454023702988-GTXKK1IBQP8GVXFRLMLJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Quite a Week, Grasshopper Lynn named her dog Towhee because his colors match those of the spotted towhees she sees in the Pacific Northwest, where she lives for much of the year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454023786565-AXYHNGBPL78JS8I5TEE5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Quite a Week, Grasshopper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454023867058-5KWNW43WN8LPTB3VZV6V/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Quite a Week, Grasshopper I wasn't able to take the workshop myself, so I'm not going to explain how it all works—though it was fun to watch. To learn more about water-based monoprinting, go to this youtube video of Roni demonstrating it on television: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454023997346-2FU8VCMKXEB940B06NMQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Quite a Week, Grasshopper This striking monoprint had the look of birch bark. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454024047548-E1RIPMRHK0VIEOTD4CL5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Quite a Week, Grasshopper Just a portion of the work created by our eight artists and displayed on the Notebook deck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454024095203-OGS9IJNZ1NODV8PAQBHF/honeybees.jpg Blog - Quite a Week, Grasshopper Honeybees in action at Pam and Emma Walsh's Mount Desert Island apiary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454024161730-9028BIBWTMXKRNHIWSUO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Quite a Week, Grasshopper If this is a Candystripe spider, its siblings might range in color from white to yellow to green—but always with that red patch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454024214608-ZLIHVYJJ9J93Z48AD6OE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Quite a Week, Grasshopper Don't miss our Aug. 25 talk on Jane Goodall's recent work and the latest on protecting chimpanzees. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/the-sweet-16-is-here monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454024387270-1QE6JSGMMG86AVRQG5CU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Sweet 16 Is Here https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/thuya-garden monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454024570206-VHD9TWBHJ8ODIUV1HC3N/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Thuya Garden https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454024600875-IKVBWD50A93Y2IGDQENE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Thuya Garden Flies aren't as beloved as bees, but both are pollinators. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454024638738-9NNYQKQXO20MERHHJI7Z/thuya3.jpg Blog - Thuya Garden Can you identify the parts of this lily? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454024664247-966PEKSV2U3PGEN4MD55/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Thuya Garden This lily is named for a sports star who is returning to action (see next photo)... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454024686486-W4S5PU0RP5LLUFO9KLDF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Thuya Garden ...yes, it's a Tiger Woods lily. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454024708614-PUEQV2H46OMVAHZY3WLP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Thuya Garden Another chance to identify the parts of a lily... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454024737053-N4GC7S3W4RBLKEXILAZ8/thuya5.jpg Blog - Thuya Garden The garden is filled with striking patterns. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454024768695-93TF3NBHFTZPFWR4R6Y8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Thuya Garden https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454024785597-E3HGKELBJ750BOYPQG5Q/thuya8.jpg Blog - Thuya Garden From the sublime to the ridiculously sublime... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454024819075-C14U4Z28LSKKF6LR0D51/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Thuya Garden A portion of Thuya Garden as seen through a spiky solar system of globe thistle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454024843272-CEDHJ3BPDXYWHI5HXZBF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Thuya Garden The door-like gates to Thuya are covered with exquisite nature carvings. The gates are one of Pamelia's favorite works of art on Mount Desert Island. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/maine-summer monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454025040084-UW2ORB11NEKFZ16AAZD1/mainesummer1.jpg Blog - Maine Summer A taste of the Maine coast, in case you aren't lucky enough to be up here right now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454025089766-3LP9YSJKNNUV4JTPYC94/melanieemma-1024x768.jpg Blog - Maine Summer Teen phenoms: Violinist/fiddler Emma Walsh and cellist Melanie Ambler performed on the deck at The Naturalist's Notebook on Thursday. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454025126245-7LRAHB8NUK0WKCNZ51JT/naturecollage.jpg Blog - Maine Summer One of the nature collages from Kathy Coe's Tuesday kids' art workshop at the Notebook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454025157349-ENBAXR5BOPOKY9BHLQB3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Maine Summer A 10-year-old boy saw a crowd of grown-ups gathered outside the Notebook trying in vain to identify this large flyer attached to an upstairs window screen. He declared, "That's a polyphemus moth!" He was right, of course, as 10-year-olds so often are. I love moments like that at the Notebook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454025207497-5RH6FKDTA7FKEA9ZB5OB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Maine Summer Our Wednesday-morning Earth News kid-reporter program has begun. Last week we went to the green in Seal Harbor to shoot video segments on bees, bugs, and each other. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454025244380-L2MMUK34J9I54RIH0H6P/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Maine Summer One of the many titles Regina Ryan has published as either an editor, a book packager or a literary agent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454025303964-88DDSC4LVNTBP2N7WA3G/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Maine Summer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454025339761-WZDGRXMGJ1V2V2TM933Y/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Maine Summer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454025366564-8USO26OESLHPNA8K436W/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Maine Summer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454025394510-NYSLSNNHM6YHBM0Q5ZRQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Maine Summer https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/guest-blog-harvards-michael-r-canfield-on-what-naturalists-carry monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454025621538-U5UJ3XWRKZP03MY4XE91/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Guest Blog: Harvard's Michael R. Canfield On What Naturalists Carry Two Notebook-friendly naturalists hiking in Acadia National Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454025654615-BRVC2LNY3JPZ25AYUGOZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Guest Blog: Harvard's Michael R. Canfield On What Naturalists Carry Michael's book (available at The Naturalist's Notebook)   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454025697735-2OZTWRRB2CU20ZOMGS19/tentcaterpillar.jpg Blog - Guest Blog: Harvard's Michael R. Canfield On What Naturalists Carry A caterpillar (not one of Michael's specimens) explored the Notebook deck this week. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454025755256-NRDHJI17LGJTR5UVY5J1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Guest Blog: Harvard's Michael R. Canfield On What Naturalists Carry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454025789541-1AZUBV88TTVR2FP6AE72/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Guest Blog: Harvard's Michael R. Canfield On What Naturalists Carry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454025827463-QIIA566SGS4GWQAIAMO8/papermaking.jpg Blog - Guest Blog: Harvard's Michael R. Canfield On What Naturalists Carry Here's a sample of the work done by the children in Kathy Coe's papermaking workshop this week. Kathy's nature-themed workshops for kids will continue every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday all summer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454025857438-MAV2ACC6VRRUAI79X696/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Guest Blog: Harvard's Michael R. Canfield On What Naturalists Carry A yellow jacket made off with the head of a nearby smooshed caterpillar during our Earth News workshop. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/earth-news-is-here monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454026008220-S8YR3N2EAV38KQRDNI1B/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Earth News Is Here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454026125241-IX7N7QU660TCJR9P1NFV/asticougarden.jpg Blog - Earth News Is Here A Japanese iris we saw yesterday during a brief visit to the Asticou Azalea Garden near Seal Harbor. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/margarets-workshop monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454028798482-R0ZNRHFLM09EWLK3D9HC/artworkshop51.jpg Blog - Margaret's Workshop Under Margaret's tutelage, participants used a wide range of drawing materials and techniques to create artworks, some of which they stitched together into hand-made notebooks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454028841085-J8NCPKIY55YZN2W302R6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Margaret's Workshop https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454028868095-EVORUW19RATXXNL5VDA4/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Margaret's Workshop https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454028896176-GDT9PHXDPUSVOEF1JLI5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Margaret's Workshop https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454028925675-X3YCXW1NHA1UEMV15FCU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Margaret's Workshop Preparing paper for use with silver point pens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454028968516-7C12M1HJE4JS3PVG9VNU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Margaret's Workshop Our artists at work on an apple-tree-shaded hillside that overlooks the sandy beach in Seal Harbor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454029000457-W408DI5LFO93HK8UYQZH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Margaret's Workshop https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454029029863-WLEMMLA812SIKB0P3GL5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Margaret's Workshop Part of the post-workshop instant art show. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454029065727-Y4LDZQO5PAMY7BEN4HMC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Margaret's Workshop The workshop class out on our Drawing Deck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454029097491-2N23GMG4BWV53KQ57025/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Margaret's Workshop https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/lost-in-space monthly 0.5 2011-07-14 https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/shadows monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454029576979-2HEE9TMJ2C10T8BMJFWQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Shadows Our shadow-puppet-making workshop yesterday brought all sorts of sea creatures—and creative children—to life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454029601974-EXSHLI53N6S7SYQ9YUN7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Shadows Fish and Sun, as seen from the deep. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454029628925-XM047P7ZVDRMI6JHO936/shadowpupshark.jpg Blog - Shadows The food chain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454029693386-9WI6TIPFV2ASZ2CADB3O/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Shadows A mouse who snuck into the house/left his hole for Pamelia's bowl/she took him away/to a safe place to stay/in the woods (not far, just a stroll). https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/an-extraordinary-and-inspiring-young-birder-and-artist monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454029899035-Y31VPBE5XO15VLOPHVJC/meandtittyrant_1.jpg Blog - An Extraordinary (And Inspiring) Young Birder and Artist Here's Luke in South America holding a tit-tyrant, a tyrant flycatcher that is one of the 1,800 bird species he has seen. You can read more about his South American adventures on his blog, grallarianramblings.blogspot.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454029958525-8MTAR6Y5ZV2FA308PK98/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Extraordinary (And Inspiring) Young Birder and Artist Luke illustrated this Maine bird guide at age 16. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454029998459-IWB7BAU1KJ63CQDZSARS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Extraordinary (And Inspiring) Young Birder and Artist This painting by Luke was at the Notebook for only a few days before it sold. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454030034204-VNQMQDWBA0DYUXJA8V52/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Extraordinary (And Inspiring) Young Birder and Artist A Siberian tiger painting by Luke that's in our biodiversity area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454030177382-Q2DU4E2URQ7060YP1MUO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Extraordinary (And Inspiring) Young Birder and Artist Three of Luke's bird photographs at the Notebook. From top to bottom, the birds are an Inca tern, a velvet-purple coronet and a Blackburnian warbler. They look even better when you see them in person. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454030228674-IDO76GWKO9SB1VBGYT78/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Extraordinary (And Inspiring) Young Birder and Artist Can you identify the type of moth that was trying to blend into the siding of the Notebook this afternoon? The answer will be in the next post. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/margaret-krug-workshop monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454030750914-EC71657BSO973NGCU8H3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Margaret Krug Workshop Margaret in action at one of the week-long workshop programs she runs at the Spannocchia Foundation in Tuscany. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454031020323-99RFCH0QVE7804OWKZ0K/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Margaret Krug Workshop Margaret will have a show of several of her works at the Notebook starting July 16. This piece is Dante’s Alley: Memory and Presence (Path), 2010, distemper, beeswax, shellac on gesso wood panel, 5x3 inches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454031064148-JWTT6TU0YEBAWRWEC7NV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Margaret Krug Workshop Dale and his family discovered this tiny lobster while exploring at low tide near Southwest Harbor. I've never come upon one while walking the low tide. A century ago the Maine shore was so littered with lobsters that they were served to jail prisoners virtually every night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454031116113-E5Q0R5JHKF1Q7WVTPSFJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Margaret Krug Workshop A brittle star that Dale's family found. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454031152010-DXXU4JR55O8HIPQKJHA7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Margaret Krug Workshop A multicolored collection of sea stars from their outing. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/venturing-inside-the-notebook-cave monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454031332169-RLXJHXBSUZB0JGWAW4TV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Venturing Inside the Notebook Cave https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454031371787-KV4GCW50DLO86NAJ6GY0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Venturing Inside the Notebook Cave Julie the spelunker checking out a bat she made for our Cave Room. She found no trace of white nose syndrome, the fungal disease that is wiping out bats in caves from Tennessee to New Hampshire (and may have been spread by humans exploring caves). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454031407875-KPJCE5SPMCE4NXLEURNG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Venturing Inside the Notebook Cave Thirty-two-thousand years later, humans are drawing on the Cave Room wall instead of the cave wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454031486334-CHG7BFEIFU9EHYLDNR7V/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Venturing Inside the Notebook Cave Just bring your miner's hat and a flashlight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454031575626-VZIIU7OTU4EZ24524STG/mousetrapgame.jpg Blog - Venturing Inside the Notebook Cave Rube Goldberg inspired Mousetrap, one of my favorite games as a kid (perhaps a telling commentary on how my brain works). https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/stand-back-volcano monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454112240489-481JOAA1VGYKIZON47JD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Stand Back—Volcano! The terrified onlookers had no idea what was about to happen... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454112282213-WM1PUZPSNXPNRNUAC7ER/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Stand Back—Volcano! Eli's declamation on volcanoes added to the anticipation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454112327491-DW2CC71F3U4ZCGR1DVU2/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Stand Back—Volcano! Once it was clear that the building wouldn't be destroyed by lava, visitors could relax and enjoy Rocco Alberico's interactive artworks and...something you'll read more about soon...the Cave! https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/look-what-landed monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454112501047-XNDTYOGZKPXTJW13O07Y/img_1562.jpg Blog - Look What Landed The latest work to spring from the fertile imagination of Rocco Alberico—as well as new, one-of-a-kind endangered species gold jewelry pieces from fellow New York artist Anne Woodman—will debut at the Notebook this Thursday from 4 to 8 p.m. Come on over! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454112537961-IKS6WPKQR5BQGXZEGTSI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Look What Landed Take Me to Your Leader (Part One), which is on display in our Seal Harbor Observatory room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454112579898-S65DU8HZTADZ5NYMVSZJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Look What Landed Here's Rocco outside the Notebook last year with his homemade 3-D camera, which never fails to attract crowds when he's hiking with it in Acadia National Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454112628456-S01VJPGZ14SU0VNRFLXL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Look What Landed The sinister motorized hay bale, comin' around the bend. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454112671337-WC0FDEZC7CC1UAGQR04R/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Look What Landed Rocco's love of fishing (but failure to catch many) may have inspired him to give these guys dentures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454112717341-J9JRT00PO3AL9D7MZ9ZZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Look What Landed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454112770968-QGC9V08YNKD49VN37143/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Look What Landed https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/sign-up-for-workshops monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454112950213-DC0S60JWZQNA47NKRZEL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Sign Up for Workshops https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454112995929-F9CBBLWPCFPJUX4HQW3E/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Sign Up for Workshops Last summer the participants in Margaret's workshop ventured down to Seal Harbor beach and elsewhere to find inspiration and images. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454113064387-PDX0Q5Z917NG8GXSBU4B/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Sign Up for Workshops Kathy holds her classes on our beautiful deck unless the weather turns bad. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454113127036-BFCWDKJX8QHW7O0AV0ZW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Sign Up for Workshops Two of the one-of-a-kind endangered-animal pieces that Anne Woodman will be showing this Thursday at our next special event. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454113175784-DG06WZ1PAV8DOJMMJM42/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Sign Up for Workshops At our book signing and kickoff party on Friday night, author Judy Paolini gave a terrific talk on the 24 New England artists whose gardens she and photographer Nance Trueworthy explored in The Inspired Garden. Note in the background that the Arizona Diamondbacks are currently atop the standings of The Natural League—the group of nine major league baseball teams with names taken from nature. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454113209783-YGL439Y0O2A61M7STQYY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Sign Up for Workshops https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/the-inspired-garden-and-other-fun monthly 0.5 2016-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454113501181-C27JVCJ2MWBNSE1YMCW5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - "The Inspired Garden" and Other Fun Julie took her artist's hand and created this illustrated sign welcoming people to our busy beehive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454113526880-BPRBCOEU0K1NDO4I78YV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - "The Inspired Garden" and Other Fun https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454113569612-U3EG16MU24RG1ALH7OPH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - "The Inspired Garden" and Other Fun Judy (left), the author of The Inspired Garden, with Nance, the photographer (who's also a gifted maker of nature-inspired pearl and gemstone available at the Notebook). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454113633159-ZHEAFHUP7NUC9DQRGHJE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - "The Inspired Garden" and Other Fun The superb new book by Michael Canfield of Harvard University Press. Look for a guest blog from Mike in this space soon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454113714473-E4I3NLYWOACIWYLFAA81/image-asset.jpeg Blog - "The Inspired Garden" and Other Fun Work by Robert Henri https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/were-open monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454113869867-GX62Y084N6KZQ09KD46W/image-asset.jpeg Blog - We're Open Our first visitors of the season arrived 20 minutes before our 10 o'clock opening and quickly found Millie the milkable cow, part of our installation on the 10,000-plus-year history of agriculture and how farming has reshaped the planet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454113906595-2Y8FNZY7VAAI00U2FZW6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - We're Open Things are flying in our astronomy room, which includes our own Hubble telescope (or perhaps I should say telly-scope) and a look at the creation in outer space of the chemical elements that make up our bodies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454113975296-G92CE58WX3IYFXK2X19I/image-asset.jpeg Blog - We're Open We hope that over the summer, the number of visitors will keep climbing, particularly up our math staircase. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454114025033-SHWSG7MPGO8IDGVRKHMC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - We're Open Spin the wheel and take your chances as you maneuver through our oversized, homemade board game. If you've ever golfed with your sheep, you get an extra wheel spin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454114083133-SZZHECJWUHARQD0WH25U/image-asset.jpeg Blog - We're Open Wooster spent a night at the Notebook with Millie during our final preparations. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/notebook-countdown monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454168186909-WHRTOJZCIWDY7WYQAP4I/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Notebook Countdown This beautiful Peg and Awl notebook (yes, it's an actual notebook) is but one of the many new things you'll find at our shop and exploratorium when it opens for the season on June 20. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454168228422-QAEBVMYRN8STFNT6M5GF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Notebook Countdown Pamelia has been photographing a variety of Notebook still lifes for a brochure that we're (finally) finishing. Because The Naturalist's Notebook has such a variety of subjects, shopping and installations—Van Gogh meets genetic research and supernovas in a nature lab/art studio/fun house—no one photo can easily sum the place up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454168308992-X406G1AHEQ9CPJX7IWES/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Notebook Countdown Hmmm...what's going on here? Could a Notebook installation be in the works? Friends Jowill Woodman and Betsy Loredo and Notebook whiz Haley Harwood were brushing up on their art skills the other day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454168344157-01TJKT6PGLVZTH8XK8S0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Notebook Countdown As an early Father's Day gift a couple of weeks ago I took my dad to master carver Steve Valleau's one-day bird-carving workshop at the Wendell Gilley Museum in Southwest Harbor, Maine. This is my day's effort—a black-throated blue warbler, minus the finishing touches and the paint. Carving is a great way to sharpen your eye as a naturalist because you have to define each detail with such precision. Without Steve's help, of course, my bird would have been far more, uh, abstract looking. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454168420435-SBL3QR3KJ4PCD6GN0JKG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Notebook Countdown https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/new-summer-program-earth-news-for-kids monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454172742690-EGAOMYIXCB07QO4I78W9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - New Summer Program: Earth News for Kids Kids and teens will conduct on-camera interviews, write stories and learn how to think like reporters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454172762651-HKN15W3X52UCLDI0J1OH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - New Summer Program: Earth News for Kids We've been creating our own universe lately with paint brushes and imagination. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454172784237-DJX4JH1GBN6TYVW9FR3M/image-asset.jpeg Blog - New Summer Program: Earth News for Kids A ruffed grouse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454172880893-T2CUMYC2UDLF4VBNZ2HS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - New Summer Program: Earth News for Kids Walt Whitman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454172902261-GT7517TPIMR9NL8G5ZSH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - New Summer Program: Earth News for Kids James Hutton https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454172921558-3GH9GIDM5UDYTF6LHXCL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - New Summer Program: Earth News for Kids To honor Dennis Gabor's birthday last year, engineers at Google created a holographic version of the company's logo. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/amazing-bird-fallout monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454173040740-BDDO1MRL6LSXZ6OTUT4N/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Amazing Bird Fallout This is not one of the amazing fallout photos—just a shot of a veery (a type of thrush) I saw along our dirt road the other day. The fallout photos are way more spectacular.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454173059510-07VA7QW3JD4HLIEZ3WOV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Amazing Bird Fallout Our dandelion field (a.k.a. lawn) keeps getting more beautiful. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/signs-sightings-and-bird-friendly-coffee monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454173209326-AHXEEEDGBE5EQIW8DAGA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Signs, Sightings and Bird-Friendly Coffee Bird bander Christopher Hansen took this great shot of a black-throated green warbler. We watched a similar one (who, I will unscientifically note, was even cuter) for several minutes from just a few feet away. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454173230282-4BOGG8W1NG9E8PCHQGWG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Signs, Sightings and Bird-Friendly Coffee The cerulean warbler, courtesy of a better prepared photographer from Wikipedia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454173264252-2KW5OLUWW3ONV97ZE0UY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Signs, Sightings and Bird-Friendly Coffee Part of last year's Naturalist's Notebook display on the importance of drinking shade-grown, bird-friendly coffee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454173287379-5XYUCTWO3PIIHEDCYKWF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Signs, Sightings and Bird-Friendly Coffee I hope those of you in Maine didn't miss last Saturday's Spring Bulb Tour on the W.P. Stewart estate in Northeast Harbor. The gardens there boast a stunning 45,000 bulbs—mostly tulips, such as those above, but also daffodils, anemone and hyacinths. It's one of the most spectacular spring events in the state, so put it on your calendar for next year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454173319897-CVHL1M9EP8D7TZGFC9JT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Signs, Sightings and Bird-Friendly Coffee Watching the grass grow may be the clichéd metaphor for dullness, but watching our dahlias shoot up from their indoor starter troughs is at least as fun as attending a snail race. At their current rate of an inch and a half of growth a day, the dahlias will hit the living room ceiling by July—except they'll be planted outside by then. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454173343743-TDBYD2DSDUT7FH15Q1H0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Signs, Sightings and Bird-Friendly Coffee We've been working on a new sign to hang off the front of the Notebook but need a little engineering help in getting it up. At least I didn't fall off the ladder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454173361500-MQ9ALPLS28DWSKAW7BGK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Signs, Sightings and Bird-Friendly Coffee https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454173428135-WW8B8WGS13NHC4UOIE9J/image-asset.gif Blog - Signs, Sightings and Bird-Friendly Coffee Rachel Carson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454173462167-3PUISQDJR6OR2EV6ICBN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Signs, Sightings and Bird-Friendly Coffee William Gilbert https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/science-winners-butterfly-chasing-and-chickens-in-a-vending-machine monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454173547453-DNFX3J502ULZMYXWYSV6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Science Winners, Butterfly Chasing and Chickens In a Vending Machine Jessica Richieri designed and built this to win several awards at the prestigious Intel science fair (photograph by Rodrigo Pena for the Press-Enterprise). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454173607461-BDYJ3L0T4T6AINTJJKF5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Science Winners, Butterfly Chasing and Chickens In a Vending Machine Our woods is blanketed with these wildflowers, which have three names: trout lily (because of the speckled pattern on the leaves), adder's tongue (because of the shape of the flower) and dogtooth violet (because someone who saw it must have loved dogs; the plant isn't even a type of violet). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454173629098-YBN40YDJW7ZL4SR1L1L4/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Science Winners, Butterfly Chasing and Chickens In a Vending Machine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454173662013-FVAPORAHOKMS980G7QFI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Science Winners, Butterfly Chasing and Chickens In a Vending Machine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454173694142-C8NAPLALNEHD7W2I1QWN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Science Winners, Butterfly Chasing and Chickens In a Vending Machine This barber's-eye view of a Costa Rican leaf-cutter ant shows the sort of detail visible in the California Academy of Sciences photo series.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454173770471-7D4T4RNFG3ZTO8PMT5B8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Science Winners, Butterfly Chasing and Chickens In a Vending Machine Dorothy Hodgkin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454173803046-1AYGUE0U14EZXNQCYHQC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Science Winners, Butterfly Chasing and Chickens In a Vending Machine Ronald Ross https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/movie-preview-wings-of-life monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454173927616-2Z637YTPDK2OGYQWS4S1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Movie Preview: Wings of Life Season three of the Notebook is just a few weeks away. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454173968721-H8QOB4MFM24S615V5SZD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Movie Preview: Wings of Life Is it me, or does the right side of this tree look like a caricature of former president Bill Clinton? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454173996902-D168JOHTFAM5AFEM02QJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Movie Preview: Wings of Life In the name non-partisanship, I should note that this unhappy guy sort of resembles former president George W. Bush at a hostile press conference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454174020940-5EQDHSUTSQFZCBQC72SN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Movie Preview: Wings of Life The fiddlehead ferns I showed you last week—when they still had their Justin Bieber haircuts—are unfurling into a new range of creatures, including a goose and an accountant wearing eyeshades. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454174044347-7EFH9YW5T3R2OBAZWXXH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Movie Preview: Wings of Life This piece, entitled Far North, is one of many by Anastassia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454174068069-J5FI2GHY80ELB271H61K/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Movie Preview: Wings of Life Anastassia calls this scene Fishing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454174089036-ODIWWFYRQEU9IZQLP5TD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Movie Preview: Wings of Life This one is entitled Zoo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454174111897-7MX1JYD5KXMU78I2BOGX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Movie Preview: Wings of Life Our local porcupine seemed happy to keep its distance from me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454174207727-EMGR7PPEKS1KALM1DTHZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Movie Preview: Wings of Life Yes, it's a bluebird. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454174264917-PUMBXY8D7XYVFX22WRBM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Movie Preview: Wings of Life https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454174319414-5LN8E8G9LBWNZCNA5SI1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Movie Preview: Wings of Life Ole Worm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454174350674-0MKTCN3MW7GKU1P2OP8V/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Movie Preview: Wings of Life Georgios Papanikolaou https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/teenage-scientists-and-ambitious-ants monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454174460239-6N9U1GMKJN7ANR81KTGU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Teenage Scientists and Ambitious Ants sciencefairwelcome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454174485063-AST2OO8VGWLZZZJC6B02/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Teenage Scientists and Ambitious Ants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454174508649-N1CGEDQ019ABAQYEYJYH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Teenage Scientists and Ambitious Ants Some projects were a bit more daunting-looking than others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454174562748-K84P9UZYEBFP2N2T2YFT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Teenage Scientists and Ambitious Ants Some interesting facts here about liars and their telltale body language. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454174647762-GGC3KUEY2OV6BH01DS1S/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Teenage Scientists and Ambitious Ants Hedy Lamarr was one of the women scientists featured in this book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454174683157-6IRCOOFXQBSQJ8B82LH6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Teenage Scientists and Ambitious Ants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454174710122-RC7ROM4LD0BLKELX1K4I/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Teenage Scientists and Ambitious Ants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454174760935-I98Q08XEM4C7FIXAMC4T/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Teenage Scientists and Ambitious Ants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454174805007-JSD489KCPHBU9T8RRLP5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Teenage Scientists and Ambitious Ants Can you tell from its silhouette what common bird this is? 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Jumpin' Jake Alfred Butts https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/sweet-incentive monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454178088580-3LPEZLQR9FVH8S8BKFCK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Sweet Incentive With Earth Day coming up on April 22, the local market in Trenton, Maine is already doing its part to boost environmentalism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454178106212-BTOOAWT5JR716D3GR81Z/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Sweet Incentive Black knot on one of our cherry trees https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454178151055-QMXGZ91JHICWUDQDOIVE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Sweet Incentive Ponce de Leon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454178178364-38SFEMN3M0ABJ4SIIPWQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Sweet Incentive Theobald Boehm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454178213108-3PR4L80JPB45R6ZOZK0O/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 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CSI: Maine Naturalist Billy Helprin with deer vertebrae that he found along our route. 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Ninety Seconds on Mercury Dr. Crawford Long https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/aristotles-robin-and-joe-torres-heron monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454179541158-7DVR4QM0U1VH5RT5P78M/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Aristotle's Robin and Joe Torre's Heron Part of the American robin flock that showed up in our part of Maine this past week. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454179564150-QN0URAN1SGODB5MZR1M9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Aristotle's Robin and Joe Torre's Heron Aristotle regularly saw common redstarts like this one in Greece in the summer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454179589904-7RQS60RAX6N72D520X5P/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Aristotle's Robin and Joe Torre's Heron https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454179624048-1NJ2EWBDQZMB17QHS6LN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Aristotle's Robin and Joe Torre's Heron A black crowned night heron we saw last November at the Colusa National Wildlife Refuge in California. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454179646654-XZMHJ2HIBFNXWEFMQQVU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Aristotle's Robin and Joe Torre's Heron Joe Torre, baseball's black-crowned heron? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454179684264-SQL4JVQ86JQHQPZ7WFHU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Aristotle's Robin and Joe Torre's Heron One of Margaret's photos of the view from the villa at Spanocchia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454179707647-7ZNNHEIP2JHFZ979AYJZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Aristotle's Robin and Joe Torre's Heron One of our hikes at Babson Creek last year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454179747302-JLE1YOGDJMK4ZOAX2NUD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Aristotle's Robin and Joe Torre's Heron https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454179956029-2YJ8O0RK1BTK91P8XDJY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Aristotle's Robin and Joe Torre's Heron Vincent van Gogh's self-portrait https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454179973510-25G18WTQKOZHB9TTAR6K/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Aristotle's Robin and Joe Torre's Heron Jethro Tull https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454179993843-OHHHGUF2E9NJVQDJ3DYN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Aristotle's Robin and Joe Torre's Heron The Asticou Azalea Garden (about 3 miles from the Notebook) was one of the beneficiaries of Brooke Astor's generosity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454180016121-HW889UHPV2BIGY4D9374/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Aristotle's Robin and Joe Torre's Heron Santorio Santorio in his weighing chair. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/the-plays-the-thing monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454180117911-ULMJ8WOGGOHQL6XBVH8Z/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Play's the Thing A flashback to the 2009 edition of The Naturalist's Notebook and Pamelia's mom, who knew (even before the scientists did) the importance of playing and playfulness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454180138564-3VGCTF7U73WUZFXQFNBB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Play's the Thing Bonobos have a female-dominated society for which the motto could be either Make love, not war or Girls just want to have fun. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454180177994-U4C0WLL7SVNI8B4XO6LF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Play's the Thing A 2010 Notebook shot: Our bonobo is on the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454180197814-8ERNFJJS74JSVC6HOURI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Play's the Thing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454180278948-AV5VSU5B83S4GF14PSOI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Play's the Thing Conrad Gesner's landmark work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454180296883-4KZ4QPJOE00WFL5QE966/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Play's the Thing Wilhelm Roentgen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454180315436-JSWX3Y1HET6H08SBUNHF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Play's the Thing Leonard Nimoy as Spock. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/blue-birds-and-blue-devils monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454180433430-5Z7DC3TO4NO8C2P8V2RH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 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How a Nuclear Plant Nearly Was Built Next to Acadia National Park (Part I) Yours truly hiking along the Ocean Path toward Otter Cliff in Acadia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454182891839-QS5913R81KI2XUCKTW5T/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How a Nuclear Plant Nearly Was Built Next to Acadia National Park (Part I) An aluminum smelting and processing plant in Washington. 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How a Nuclear Plant Nearly Was Built Next to Acadia National Park (Part I) Rocky and Bullwinkle https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/inside-an-ant-city monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454183217404-6408V9GVME4IYDU9FF87/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Inside an Ant City A few of the seals who showed up yesterday—right on schedule. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454183267748-GPBEPPTSJYI6W7PKQOQW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Inside an Ant City A common eider. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454183297620-J5G1YYR6GTP7K82CINCF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Inside an Ant City Concepcion, Chile, after the 1835 quake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454183350241-57CZEGYVY836CWSBULM6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Inside an Ant City Caroline Herschel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454183382878-6UABM6D06VJC7QM5GTR8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 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The Rhino Who Painted (and the Elephants Who Still Do) Kimber (right) began teaching Herbie to paint in 1999 at the San Antonio Zoo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454184171218-YQNOQCAIBH6H3HYFV8PQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Rhino Who Painted (and the Elephants Who Still Do) Herbie painted using his unique upper lip and non-toxic paint. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454184198687-X08LAPX8REVE9Y5JB2AK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Rhino Who Painted (and the Elephants Who Still Do) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454184220072-77I4MOGJOMWS385MUZXZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Rhino Who Painted (and the Elephants Who Still Do) Herbie with one of his works. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454184269190-IHT5OBIJ27A2GWV2G4BG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Rhino Who Painted (and the Elephants Who Still Do) George Steller https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454184297513-NM4XI3GP6NE1Y8C2GKV0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Rhino Who Painted (and the Elephants Who Still Do) Steller's sea cow, now extinct https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454184313558-96XRYTX2U02LJ3VDP1MD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Rhino Who Painted (and the Elephants Who Still Do) John Herschel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454184332524-2POY623ROXSZFX396A9W/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Rhino Who Painted (and the Elephants Who Still Do) James Herriott https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454184349592-VWU6URSWMRWZTVFAS720/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Rhino Who Painted (and the Elephants Who Still Do) Tributed to Andre Michaux https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/from-bumblebees-to-michelangelo monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454184428562-QWZHRPPXE1CP2XTHJCKN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - From Bumblebees to Michelangelo Who wouldn't want to fly like a bumblebee? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454184478900-EBQL4OCWLR60CTANVW2J/image-asset.jpeg Blog - From Bumblebees to Michelangelo The mysterious eco-friendly melter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454184524099-12VZHVCEEAVZ6D1IU5VH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - From Bumblebees to Michelangelo All-natural? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454184579212-3X6036ABO5G0MNRA0263/image-asset.jpeg Blog - From Bumblebees to Michelangelo The new Peterson guide on my iPad. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454184648996-FA7B0GCUUU4Z0RM24R1C/image-asset.jpeg Blog - From Bumblebees to Michelangelo Michelangelo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454184671064-VYPL2PRA8IZU4JTBEU1M/image-asset.jpeg Blog - From Bumblebees to Michelangelo Valentina Tereshkova stamp https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454184693454-KU34ZN0VYRI7ZSVKWQ0M/williamoughtred.jpeg Blog - From Bumblebees to Michelangelo William Oughtred https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454184739402-CF7KM4Q7J0ZWJS9GX5D3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - From Bumblebees to Michelangelo An Aert Schouman painting called A Purple Heron on a Sand Bank, done in a combination of watercolor, black chalk and pen and ink. The purple heron is a wading bird found in Africa, Asia and parts of Europe. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/the-chipmunk-who-thought-he-was-a-groundhog monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454184846956-B5C84E7JJ2OY6DE2G8YV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Chipmunk Who Thought He Was a Groundhog After months of semi-hibernation, Alvin popped out yesterday to look around. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454184871192-DD1Q7GB1SDE3Y2XZ3RD1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Chipmunk Who Thought He Was a Groundhog This female is part of a huge flock of common redpolls that showed up in late February to enjoy coastal Maine life outside our house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454184905500-709J6JFGA66ZWW7XI00T/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Chipmunk Who Thought He Was a Groundhog The lunar view at 6 a.m. today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454184954323-FY902H7O1SB1IAUWE0IT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Chipmunk Who Thought He Was a Groundhog https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454184977322-NTGBJSNFOWU2NL4U95QC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Chipmunk Who Thought He Was a Groundhog This remarkable shot of an egret by Graham F. Owen of Burbank, Calif., was one of the Nature Conservancy winners. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454185036655-JJNM418EYEKNVQE05QNA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Chipmunk Who Thought He Was a Groundhog This Frank Bare painting, called The Cello Player, is part of the Muscular Dystrophy Association art collection in Tucson, Ariz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454185057325-BZKVP6BZH71IAJ99GFB5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Chipmunk Who Thought He Was a Groundhog Joel Poinsett and his favorite plant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454185073982-RV3FEUIDSTGWYVWCLC6Y/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Chipmunk Who Thought He Was a Groundhog Frederic Chopin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454185092504-5DH1APKO6JT6N2R1H58C/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Chipmunk Who Thought He Was a Groundhog Dr. Seuss https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/the-creature-in-the-fridge monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454185188731-FHZRVJM7P3LDRMO61P2Z/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Creature in the Fridge The sculpin looked considerably better when we put him in the freezer a few years ago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454185208329-2REI8H7URTWWWQHAPEOR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Creature in the Fridge A young shorthorn sculpin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454185233302-O6BLCI12SXJRBEP9S3SV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Creature in the Fridge Ralph the pelican https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454185255665-5DN69Z44OEPVIO7DQRQ7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Creature in the Fridge The violaceous trogon lives mostly in the Amazon region and often nests in wasp, ant or termite nests. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454185299668-NBZONWSIULGAGG18WI56/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Creature in the Fridge https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454185342461-PHAFR37RN441AJ6NYF2K/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Creature in the Fridge Fans keeping track of a pitcher's strikeouts; a backwards K means that the third strike was called by the umpire, not swung at and missed by the batter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454185365501-9LMEXEEXBL1F4N0A2O1T/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Creature in the Fridge Charles Best https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454185404185-AEQT0I7O9IA5U0AH458X/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Creature in the Fridge Victor Hugo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454185449072-WI95HIYXJJ6AF6VTUYLD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Creature in the Fridge Henry Wadsworth Longfellow https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454185467902-W41LYERTSAMZLCVU6SKD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Creature in the Fridge Susan Helms https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454185486851-PT51KIM070G7SA8BLJJQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Creature in the Fridge Linus Pauling https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/evolution-in-bar-harbor monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454185557784-V0AFCYJSBOYFK7Q14EWV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Evolution in Bar Harbor https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/bearing-up-in-new-york-city monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454185625759-6016V3HO3ZAQZ24IX8MD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Bearing Up in New York City As the Natural History Museum's display makes clear, Alaska brown bears such as these are utterly gigantic—much bigger than grizzlies, though (good news if you run into one) their claws are shorter and their temperament less aggressive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454185661848-Y97MLDGH0TTJI58ERY1Q/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Bearing Up in New York City Part of a superb photo exhibit called On Feathered Wings, this extraordinary photo of a barn swallow feeding a fly to a fledgling was shot by David G. Hemmings in Canada. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454185677677-BZT7IJPTEM1UYACDIM4X/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Bearing Up in New York City Part of the same Natural History Museum show, this shot by Richard Ettlinger of a double-breasted cormorant was taken in Florida, apparently at lunchtime. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454185731803-YOFFBWIWJ26JHRST94FU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Bearing Up in New York City The Baden-Powell bobblehead https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454185764359-4ZNF3QH85N4AX6BQJO8K/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Bearing Up in New York City Samuel Pepys https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454185816877-Q279BS8J2NJOHVT4KF1A/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Bearing Up in New York City Edna St. Vincent Millay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454185836283-L80OQ0B86YNIBEM8WOMA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Bearing Up in New York City Watson (left), Crick and the double helix of DNA. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/ahoy-sea-turkeys monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454693403656-27NSZUUIDKEUNNDUMWJR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Ahoy! Sea Turkeys Clearly not chicken, these self-brining wild turkeys went wading into the frigid Maine water at low tide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454693447256-O37Z4ORJ68GYIGBYUBDR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Ahoy! Sea Turkeys A great horned owl, hunting for a skunk? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454693490091-LSYLWSI72J0XW6E0DFAP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Ahoy! Sea Turkeys A scandal! It's not all veg! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454693541640-MSCA4WS96GZ46FCZ3G14/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Ahoy! Sea Turkeys The Milky Way, our galaxy, is made up at least 200 billion stars. The universe contains at least 200 billion galaxies. Do you think there's maybe a slight chance that there's some other form of life out there? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454693631959-21QVCERJFT4QB9RAU59E/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Ahoy! Sea Turkeys Nicolaus Copernicus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454693677816-BM40BMGN3AMILBKEAQSL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Ahoy! Sea Turkeys Francis Galton https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454693714964-OUMWDR8IUM398677U2H4/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Ahoy! Sea Turkeys You'd have needed a lot of lira to buy a Toyota Volta. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454693750233-YSWA77Q3G8FZQBYNZV7W/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Ahoy! Sea Turkeys Buffy Sainte-Marie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454693775875-KYC4AMXQSDG2HCFD6CA3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Ahoy! Sea Turkeys The Great One https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/music-moscow-and-the-mailbag monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454694064031-HYABL84PYXV70FYXT16X/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Music, Moscow and the Mailbag Here is one of those horse-drawn vacuum cleaners, on exhibit at Don Aslett's Cleaning Museum in Pocatello, Idaho. The vacuum was parked on he street; it cleaned buildings with vacuum hoses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454694210336-7B9JS5K88AVAJ9N8YYUD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Music, Moscow and the Mailbag Russian rush hour: One of the Moscow canines riding the tube between the suburbs and the city center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454694340446-6360ZMM0IFD80K6Z7ES4/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Music, Moscow and the Mailbag The athletes' village (with eco-designed green roof) is now an under-occupied condo complex. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454694387017-UQG0TVEZOWY7ISN8L2BT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Music, Moscow and the Mailbag SI's swimsuit issue may be out, but not even polar-bear club members were using Seal Harbor's snowed-in beach facilities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454694579353-0UZUK5S7RK1VU1HLNR0E/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Music, Moscow and the Mailbag Niagara Falls https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454694616579-0LQUJ2TT7GDSPJPLRF3S/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Music, Moscow and the Mailbag Galileo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454694640782-UL1OE3WPT4I0OMZ2E5W6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Music, Moscow and the Mailbag A bio of the female Edison. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454694683590-IVO8YH2UX051EHZC5N1A/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Music, Moscow and the Mailbag Fritz Zwicky https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454694705315-O2UHG9WWWSDQYOSB33FP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Music, Moscow and the Mailbag Henry Steinway https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/the-valentine-heart monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454714375634-OLC2QT17TG58BLG4KEUZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Valentine Heart On this holiday, even a dog can read the writing on the wall. Buster Brown and his pooch, Tige—the first talking canine in American comics—were created by Richard Outcault, the same artist who drew the Yellow Kid, after whom yellow journalism was named (see earlier post). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454714405088-PIZP5TAYO5FEGHAFU4KO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Valentine Heart The human heart, as you won't see it on a Hallmark card. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454714431257-UWCOMSN45Z5A4ZK6OKJX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Valentine Heart A coin from ancient Cyrene, bearing the seed of love and lovemaking. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454714462453-270Y1308IGG8BJTFBSQL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Valentine Heart Some people say it with diamonds, others with small candies that declare to the world, I (heart) LEDs (light emitting diodes). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454714497046-GSLLCLAB5F8U7B9VBLX2/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Valentine Heart The bleeding-heart produces some of the world's best natural Valentines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454714529984-UXNYE6NYC3ZHIS85TMAG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Valentine Heart Map showing the Mariana Trench https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454714594860-8UG4SDUM37ABF20CD8PS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Valentine Heart Thomas Edison https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454714623324-J54ZI5U255OA36SRH0PV/darwin.jpeg Blog - The Valentine Heart Charles Darwin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454714658434-VM4F72ULLFTD8EI88M6M/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Valentine Heart Fang Lizhi https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/rip-barred-owl monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454714936515-TYCQDZQ1CVUZ4M4996KK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - RIP, Barred Owl We're not sure what did in this remarkable creature, who had become a regular visitor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454714992478-JLGW87FYRRGI9PER2RCW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - RIP, Barred Owl The owl hunting by the shed a few days earlier. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454715261420-CYMSDGZSGNNFQG3WYDNX/image-asset.gif Blog - RIP, Barred Owl The New Horizons spacecraft, en route to Pluto. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454715341912-8ZJ69PFE1WTHFQXI2XDB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - RIP, Barred Owl Jules Verne commemorative stamp https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454715441723-B30U386AFJLY4VXH21IX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - RIP, Barred Owl The crash that killed Thomas Selfridge https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454715462013-9OKPF6O3HJG6X7GBGFLZ/carlson.jpg Blog - RIP, Barred Owl Chester Carlson https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/groundhog-fever-pluto-and-the-hidden-chemistry-of-the-super-bowl monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454715590001-XBY7531NKCERZ8C6UD7E/groundhogday.jpg Blog - Groundhog Fever, Pluto, and the Hidden Chemistry of the Super Bowl Apologies, Bill Murray, if this tale sounds familiar to you and your weather-forecasting woodchuck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454715688505-6TQH4J9NZPASBKCFMNQ9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Groundhog Fever, Pluto, and the Hidden Chemistry of the Super Bowl Tyson was a knockout in telling the crazy story of Pluto's demotion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454715784156-4EGR3ZEZW9K7W7M3D1G8/aaronrodgersjersey.jpg Blog - Groundhog Fever, Pluto, and the Hidden Chemistry of the Super Bowl Aaron Rodgers wears the atomic number of magnesium, an element as explosive as the Packers offense. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454715825106-TRMC8LVK2V39B88P3IZZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Groundhog Fever, Pluto, and the Hidden Chemistry of the Super Bowl A Ben Roethlisberger—er, nitrogen—molecule. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454715885171-UHMH0ITVDO7HPOJ0XIX0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Groundhog Fever, Pluto, and the Hidden Chemistry of the Super Bowl Elizabeth Blackwell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454715910271-X37H8PLBFCVDNNIPMGHA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Groundhog Fever, Pluto, and the Hidden Chemistry of the Super Bowl Ludwig Prandtl https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/snow-joking-around monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454716110959-T23TF8FOI9F35SMY0D4M/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Snow Joking Around Look! I've discovered homo Frosty-cus! Where archaeology meets the Weather Channel, you get...a postcard by Czech cartoonist Miroslav Bartak. I have a small collection of them because I enjoy his Gary Larson sensibility. Bartak, now in his 70s, is a former seaman who decided to go ashore at age 30 and follow a childhood passion that his less artistically minded parents hadn't let him pursue. Good move. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454716211569-V7WQF4XOVAKQKQ7G4URZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Snow Joking Around Frozen in time? I would ask this guy what the Ice Age was like, but humans hadn't developed modern language skills back then. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454716322199-ZB9OW1OABFKWFHI3CA0R/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Snow Joking Around This barred owl has been hanging out near our house for the last two days, probably hunting for small squirrels, mice and mourning doves. This type is also known as an eight-hoot owl, or just the hoot owl. The name barred owl comes from the horizontal bars under his bill, which you can't see in this photo but which help in identifying him. So do his eyes: His are brown rather than the yellow found in most owl species. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454716453675-OPUYJIZPVPZ6DKASFWSB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Snow Joking Around Thomas Cole's oil painting called View Across Frenchman's Bay From Mt. Desert Island After a Squall, from 1845 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454716480406-ZSHZI0KTJST2B1KLFVLO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Snow Joking Around Charlotte Auerbach https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454716507479-PBAYVNOUUE4G1DZURG62/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Snow Joking Around François-Alphonse Forel https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/of-mice-and-moon monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454716612941-62IXPUHFWJ6MND6EHSBC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Of Mice and Moon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454716638604-5E4GS80QQ0PEE8GUQ0RZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Of Mice and Moon Englebart's computer mouse prototype. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454716669314-QEEKRWN3TMA0ND5PYK2G/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Of Mice and Moon Douglas Engelbart https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454716708949-AR18QE3MXWFLKOOR8P7C/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Of Mice and Moon Terrible picture (for some reason my camera fares poorly when shooting through a double-paned window in nearly pitch-black conditions), but this is what the moon and Venus looked like before dawn this morning. Can you tell whether the moon is in a phase of waxing (getting bigger each night) or waning (getting smaller)? Read on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454716733617-6PKFK9RA12VBNCI8QD4N/image-asset.gif Blog - Of Mice and Moon The flag of Tunisia is one of many bearing the star and crescent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454716757345-UK0FANAT0SKXAIFFBXAQ/image-asset.png Blog - Of Mice and Moon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454716797681-JN1S5HZ7UMXSGW82DMHS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Of Mice and Moon James Watt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454716851710-T26M6HZ9KVDA44GD36F7/1757-james-watt1.jpg Blog - Of Mice and Moon The earlier James Watt https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/yellow-journalism-a-look-at-the-color-of-the-sun-the-super-bowl-and-nat-geo monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454716981061-CVT6T4GKF05A53OUFR0K/yellowsun.jpg Blog - Yellow Journalism? A Look at the Color of the Sun, the Super Bowl and Nat Geo Wednesday's sunrise over Mount Desert Island. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454717006189-F9FQWISO3JL7IHRIDTLS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Yellow Journalism? A Look at the Color of the Sun, the Super Bowl and Nat Geo The Yellow Kid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454717033965-RN8M9UVA2RYDM5C0YLCD/pittsburgh_steelers_yellow_helmet.jpg Blog - Yellow Journalism? A Look at the Color of the Sun, the Super Bowl and Nat Geo The Steelers have occasionally used this yellow helmet instead of their usual black one; of the three stars of color in the logo, yellow represents coal, orange represents iron ore and blue represents steel scrap. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454717482446-8SWTWB8UMPDS3O33V97P/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Yellow Journalism? A Look at the Color of the Sun, the Super Bowl and Nat Geo Fall maple leaves along Ocean Drive in Acadia National Park https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454717540873-M8PJHBYLC6ELR5S9DBYF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Yellow Journalism? A Look at the Color of the Sun, the Super Bowl and Nat Geo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454717590960-G3NNJY8I6LPKB9F48AB8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Yellow Journalism? A Look at the Color of the Sun, the Super Bowl and Nat Geo This is a coot—or mudhen—we saw at the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge in California on our fall bird adventure. What would you call a whole bunch of them? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454717622532-3YWHB9I7W8IX7G0FDGP2/hargrave.jpg Blog - Yellow Journalism? A Look at the Color of the Sun, the Super Bowl and Nat Geo Lawrence Hargrave commemorated on Australia's $20 bill https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454717666959-TAYVJE7C9TWUN9NKWJJE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Yellow Journalism? A Look at the Color of the Sun, the Super Bowl and Nat Geo Allen DuMont with a cathode-ray tube https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454717690336-D6PMF7VIKFENESKHI0W0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Yellow Journalism? A Look at the Color of the Sun, the Super Bowl and Nat Geo Ludolph van Ceulen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454717724169-6CBZ5102P8MHQO5KWKR8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Yellow Journalism? A Look at the Color of the Sun, the Super Bowl and Nat Geo Giovanni Borelli https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/final-hours-of-a-duck monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454779631984-X5H9BIJZDSLR8B92P49F/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Final Hours of a Duck Pamelia swathed the wounded duck and brought it inside our house as we contacted an animal-rescue center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454779660076-USOO3PHRFC54UYD71UGW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Final Hours of a Duck This is a Northern goshawk, whose name derives from goose hawk and reflects his taste for waterfowl. Because goshawks attack game species, hunters tried to kill them off early in the 20th century; legislation protecting them was finally passed in 1972. (copyright Jerry Liguori) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454779693928-L28CFCZIAONLAH4AMAM8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Final Hours of a Duck Those aren't teeth, they're lamellae, which filter food from the water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454779732468-UCQCIJZE2S5BLWWGQMDL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Final Hours of a Duck A bald eagle perched near the duck's frozen body but did not seem to notice it. Perhaps the cold eliminated any smell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454779775855-Z67N05DW29RY8ANJQGVG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Final Hours of a Duck A fox also hung out around the house but ignored the frozen duck. As you can tell from the missing chunk of his tail, he's been through some battles of his own lately. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454779847654-M51644JEDLBSXKQXN9PZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Final Hours of a Duck Roy Chapman Andrews (and no, that's not a velociraptor) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454779883198-0EJ897MSJS94XBROS80Z/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Final Hours of a Duck Robert Boyle https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/how-cold-is-it-where-you-are monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454780028807-1878ZUD8NJRJ5M6YVQ1X/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How Cold Is It Where You Are? The morning reading here on the coast of Downeast Maine: six below, with a wind chill of about 20 below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454780069822-DT8CPOX6WUUUYMX2A3RJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How Cold Is It Where You Are? At low tide on extremely cold days, ice forms on the exposed bay floor in six-sided disks more than a foot in diameter. Not coincidentally, these hexagons are the same shape as snow crystals, honeycombs, the patterns on turtle shells and pineapples, and other forms found in nature. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454780126741-UGDPJNC2SVCFEGMY7W15/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How Cold Is It Where You Are? Yesterday the black ducks and mallards that had gathered under our feeder took off en masse when startled. Hawks and bald eagles have been out in force, causing panic among the ducks, the crows and other birds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454780278595-XVPT8ZED1BN5B4YAMYBP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How Cold Is It Where You Are? The snow has created a revealing landscape of animal tracks. These are from a fox. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454780302224-QAW2M20QNAS0BZMZ5H50/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How Cold Is It Where You Are? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454780349932-6HO06VXBJNCVFV2RSJG0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How Cold Is It Where You Are? Sir Francis Bacon. The esteemed philosopher, scientist and statesman would no doubt be honored to know that he is still remembered today by the makers of the Sir Francis Bacon Halloween mask. It is is a pig's head with this style hat on top. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454780382641-WK4FF89C6VUZVHGV3PFL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How Cold Is It Where You Are? Andrija Mohorovicic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454780403998-1ZMO3OWF0R4C6M0WKR47/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How Cold Is It Where You Are? Desmond Morris's landmark book https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454780432799-MTJV6HM2V8NEXE3D5GF6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How Cold Is It Where You Are? Morris has combined nature, science and art in his long career. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/rabbits-luck monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454780511288-YXIW2UW9KKYL4HP5BB8T/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Rabbits' Luck A black-tailed jackrabbit we saw at the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge during our Pacific Flyway birding trip. Despite its name, this is a hare, not a rabbit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454780541849-JJECC17PA02C21G486DF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Rabbits' Luck A painted turtle hatchling https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454780613458-HV46HT8VVSEPWJZP16ZD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Rabbits' Luck University of Maryland teams are known as the Terrapins, hence the slogan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454780654685-CJNF45GBR6IK0KS39D2G/image-asset.gif Blog - Rabbits' Luck Beatrice Potter Webb https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454780678597-6K5Y5Z79ZGGWT9EK5I07/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Rabbits' Luck An Adelie penguin (not one of Mr. Popper's) https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/numbers-doodling-and-football monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454780745445-AT4AOM58HVQMT3QZVWG7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Numbers, Doodling and Football This new book will raise your math knowledge to a new power. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454780785758-X7QK58YDIQEL46B0F97D/joy-adamson.jpg Blog - Numbers, Doodling and Football Joy Adamson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454780817792-JWAW3SIWZ1YCUGZQD2JU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Numbers, Doodling and Football Andre Ampere https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/birds-and-the-scary-movie-effect monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454780929402-B8E11KSREEAQV8VF2XZC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Birds and the "Scary Movie Effect" A little fright can go a long way toward attracting a tryst partner if you're a male fairy wren (left, with a female). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454780987386-DKXYAD9MK79YTHVXT0D0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Birds and the "Scary Movie Effect" The butcherbird https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454781020993-LFG422YRWEOS76U7LKMK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Birds and the "Scary Movie Effect" Henry Bessemer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454781048030-I5LCX9059107W2W610CE/aliceeastwood.jpeg Blog - Birds and the "Scary Movie Effect" Alice Eastwood https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/cold-and-colder monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454781759629-3DOT4REBQTF41Z81ERQ8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Cold and Colder Even on a night that barely reaches freezing, a chickadee can burn up almost 60 percent of its body fat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454781798977-GP1SCOJFZHJNAUQT1QGU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Cold and Colder This is one of the seals that live in the colony we can see from our house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454781849463-XIKXMED06I9847N39AMK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Cold and Colder A dairy herd we passed in Point Reyes, California, on our birding trip. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/londons-olympian-fish-plan monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454782198097-K3K25M6ALF24L30FP8HX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - London's Olympian Fish Plan Could British fish and chips be getting even better? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454782289285-4LJYMFI6PPZIQ7AUCPPS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - London's Olympian Fish Plan Dian Fosse https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/whooping-cranes-and-swimsuit-sands monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454782401328-DRGVVZIRQYUW339O1TD9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Whooping Cranes and Swimsuit Sands Whooping cranes being led by an ultralight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454782425550-0CZVDEB3EMQ7HOSPJP27/maldives.jpeg Blog - Whooping Cranes and Swimsuit Sands How could I resist inserting a picture of the Maldives while sitting in snowy Maine on a 10-degree morning in January? In case you missed it, Sports Illustrated did one of the photo shoots for its 2010 swimsuit issue here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454782450276-W9OCIY5TB2L3ZSJ4XGBH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Whooping Cranes and Swimsuit Sands Wallace, the other father of evolutionary theory https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454782472675-WC0QI9X554I3HPYSLBGQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Whooping Cranes and Swimsuit Sands Edward Teller with a Russian bomb in 1996 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454782495075-UQ5E29WBY17O2H856VL0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Whooping Cranes and Swimsuit Sands This Silverberg book foretold an Earth run by the Corporation, which demonized peaceful aliens to win public support for mining on one of their planet's moons. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/iodine-contrast monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454783771354-FVV5DYD3YVM3G3XUSQR6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Iodine Contrast Deliciously flavored! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454783789683-47POPQQMG1LLAARK9LUC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Iodine Contrast https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454783821708-CT7A8F6QCXJJV9ZBX035/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Iodine Contrast Last night's snowy scene—almost a photo negative—made a flash impression that got me thinking. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454783921132-UQ6F1B9HYMPZ6X3WT5VW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Iodine Contrast Former Dodgers pitcher Don Drysdale, a.k.a. the Big Iodine? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454783945671-AOJ9CKFWSTXG5Z45D94Q/wilhelmwienstamp.jpeg Blog - Iodine Contrast Wilhelm Wien https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/bart-simpson-and-acidic-words monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454784069658-RAUG2XGN0RDATHU581MY/bartsimpson.jpg Blog - Bart Simpson and Acidic Words https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454784093420-L1ZQYH0OS77MJ759U5W5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Bart Simpson and Acidic Words Ornithologist Pat Johnson, one of the original Naturalist's Notebook crew, took this shot of a pileated chick on Mount Desert Island. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454784120553-Y9IUF4Q9SSKMK84O5573/montefeltro.jpg Blog - Bart Simpson and Acidic Words In this painting by Piero della Francesa, Federico da Montebeltro might be described as a pileated Italian. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454784163838-ODWEONUX0TIADPRJ82QW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Bart Simpson and Acidic Words Carl Linnaeus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454784187961-N6VH8OIECF5JRHRHOF9I/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Bart Simpson and Acidic Words Wile E. Coyote, or "Desertous-operativus Idioticus" https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/north-pole-shift-whiz-kid-astronomer monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454784302841-SFITHXRBR78OAPVH2SN7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - North Pole Shift, Whiz Kid Astronomer... A few noteworthy news items from the week: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454784329571-G9UR1SWIVGBAHKBSL56F/magnetic-north-pole-move.gif Blog - North Pole Shift, Whiz Kid Astronomer... How the magnetic North Pole has moved over the last century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454784484369-VPBXSNJ6VF0FT1PZ9PJ7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - North Pole Shift, Whiz Kid Astronomer... What caused so many red-winged blackbirds to die? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454784508519-WFCF0T2JPDNT65XUPV5V/image-asset.jpeg Blog - North Pole Shift, Whiz Kid Astronomer... Bluefin tuna https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/margaret-krug-in-american-artist monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454784674405-WOAWSL74CPFN1050IWFB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Margaret Krug in American Artist Margaret's first article appears in the February issue, now on newsstands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454784704793-34AM0J07SCEV9RI4N651/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Margaret Krug in American Artist Margaret teaching her workshop at the Notebook last summer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454784742233-YQBAKZ973JGU1334BACX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Margaret Krug in American Artist Jacob Bernoulli https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454784784293-44B6SFENZTC5I62308RS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Margaret Krug in American Artist The Tasmanian tiger was the world's largest carnivorous marsupial. Today he lives only on the label of Cascade, an Australian beer. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/james-bond-and-the-genius monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454784905173-8XYK9NTQTYN2PBXT41LJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - James Bond and the Genius The inspiration for 007, and Ian Fleming's birding hero. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454784933994-BZD6YLOTZXEPTZOAY6EJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - James Bond and the Genius Sir Isaac https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454784963471-NRSN60UT1V6WFSLA6TZC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - James Bond and the Genius At first I though this might be some sort of genetic mutation...only to find out that it's quite common and natural. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454784997522-GR6VPF5Y8IRLCOVK9NHT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - James Bond and the Genius At the far left you can see how slipper shells got their name. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/water-hazard monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454785050252-E39ZH0OLLCK6AIF6N4DK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Water Hazard https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/the-2011-crystal-ball monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454785102678-FT7RT5PW9OPY4ZK1F96B/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The 2011 Crystal Ball What stories will the new year bring? Shake the snow globe and find out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454785222275-MV3CDBQFL5VSYRO3GVT1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The 2011 Crystal Ball You'll be reading more and more about the more and more people. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454785248425-6TKW3BEJT772A3CX0IER/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The 2011 Crystal Ball https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454785286757-DHGPVOX4NNEBLI8VH0CI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The 2011 Crystal Ball Jack Black and Steve Martin will help make birding bigger than ever in '11. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454785331459-18DFNHD39F6J5H7C0KPG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The 2011 Crystal Ball https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/danger-will-woodpecker monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454785386769-F6ZUVKL24FQJ56RQUVJR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Danger, Will Woodpecker! After regaining consciousness, Hairy perched there, stunned, for about 15 minutes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454785434530-VBAAQUBV8X5VXA7M6S1X/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Danger, Will Woodpecker! Thomas Henderson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454785511738-1E4SKNU3X7Z6GAQLOO9P/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Danger, Will Woodpecker! Alpha Centauri, here we come: The Lost In Space crew. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/the-blizzard-theory monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454785560379-2SL6836I35A485HHW708/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Blizzard Theory More than 80 ducks waddled ashore through the storm this morning, looking for stray birdseed, but many got scared off by the entrenched wild turkeys, who survived the night perched in trees, their lock-down claws holding them tight to branches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454785593379-KPM3YUIEDKX7TQQL0P0G/louispasteur.jpg Blog - The Blizzard Theory Louis Pasteur https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454785629637-650P0AJDY4RVXN8R3EL1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Blizzard Theory Johannes Kepler https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/green-acres monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454785755863-1M1K2T7Y7EDK82Z05315/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Green Acres Squash from this year's garden (no pesticides used). https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/naturally-frosted monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454785886691-R1O3U3JGJ9Q4INEH9QCL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Naturally Frosted Cold Maine mornings can ice up anything with moisture on it, even hair. Pamelia had her face covered with a scarf yesterday, which caused her moist breath to escape near the sides of her face. The water quickly froze up, and suddenly Pamelia had naturally frosted hair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454785922906-QXNQKN8VS76FF1OD85PD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Naturally Frosted The extreme cold left us with light, large crystals of snow that looked almost like glass foliage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454785955990-2MRDUNEKIYRZIZTR1JN5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Naturally Frosted Anybody good at feather identification? Based on color, we're guessing that this comes from one of our resident wild turkeys, but in size it seems more suited for a duck. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/lets-see-how-many-turtle-doves monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454786234944-QNDQTZW85CUCAAN5VDA1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Let's See...How Many Turtle Doves? One of Walton Ford's beautiful works—considerably nicer when not photographed off a TV screen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454786272140-PRDY1BW9P7OVEYH8VHLW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Let's See...How Many Turtle Doves? A shot of a too-often-shot species, the turtle dove's extinct cousin, the passenger pigeon. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/real-dog-sledding monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/just-follow-the-arrows monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454786365225-IY4BEH6G73YY37RJI16D/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Just Follow the Arrows https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454786390135-Z16NSSKDPIINL4AG80IS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Just Follow the Arrows Here's the archaeopteryx cast we saw in Boise. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/light-show monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454786464284-YFDQ6IAZW63RIHAXEVBM/sunbeamcloseup-768x1024.jpg Blog - Light Show This is what we saw when we woke up yesterday morning. That's Cadillac Mountain on the left and Sargeant Mountain on the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454786494715-RB7OFVHAFJFDT7Y0TNTL/sunbeamcloseup-768x1024.jpg Blog - Light Show At first, Pamelia and I wondered if this might be the light phenomenon known as a "sun dog," which we had heard about. But sun dogs are bright spots that look like additional suns on a halo of light that (again thanks to ice crystals) appears around our sun. In any case, it's just a matter of time before ballpark concessionaires steal the name sun dog and use it for solar-grilled wieners. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454786539873-AJCWPYN4DQBC59GPCTFR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Light Show The fox on the right is rolling around, kicking his feet in the air like Snoopy after writing a funny line on his doghouse typewriter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454786569206-9EXCQP65BSL9EF4J9YWP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Light Show The fox on the left is doing a Flying Wallenda and is about to land on top of his bushy-tailed opponent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454786612179-WOHUUDP1O22JJ13N12EG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Light Show Baseball fans might also refer to these as "ducks on the pond." Though those are usually limited to three at a time. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/foxes-in-the-snow monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454786826804-X196UDMRW7KN2RKR7HW3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Foxes in the Snow https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/ready-for-december monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454786925942-AS0PVVIIXXGTDW12MKP9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Ready for December The Notebook at closing time last Saturday; we'll again be open this Saturday, from 10 to 5. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454786974202-S71CQ8POWIYL8ZSSUZAW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Ready for December Last week's moon ring (visible over our house) did indeed herald snow and sleet, as folk wisdom would have told you. Moon rings are caused by ice crystals in thin clouds about 20,000 feet off the ground. The rings are made of refracted moonlight, or perhaps I should say reflected and refracted sunlight—after all, what do you think lights up the moon? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454787001700-XBLG2OV5B341973JEG1J/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Ready for December We've been getting a nice pre-dawn view of Venus, that little white dot at the top of the photo, and a good look each clear evening at Jupiter, which has been exceptionally close to the Earth this fall and extra bright. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/turkey-day-trot monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454787237524-SE56KWJMLGF5O2GQ04N0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Turkey Day Trot Our flock of wild turkeys heard it was Thanksgiving and—yikes! But fear not, they're all safe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454787274805-1P0GI87GYUTFPKA7ZRUL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Turkey Day Trot Tom knows how to turn up the tail and turn on the charm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454787303088-XLQ9T6ACIFFZJEBJO4L0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Turkey Day Trot Yes, this really is pumpkin-pie soda. It's a Maine product, and we plan to try it with our, um, roast turkey. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/were-open-again monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454787378302-PZGX0K8KK50ZEARUN6R2/image-asset.jpeg Blog - We're Open Again The orangutan is the world's largest tree-dwelling animal, though rarely is one found in a Christmas tree. This guy is getting into the holiday spirit after spending the summer hanging out in our display window with an occasionally zany chimp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454787430849-L7NN2MYRLBUQ08GA4UHK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - We're Open Again We could be open a few other days in December, but here's our current plan. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/last-days-in-california monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454860077980-9YT0WRQ2D177O0OVJPVJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Last Days in California This great blue heron paid no attention to the hum of traffic on the nearby Dumbarton Bridge across San Francisco Bay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454860108931-PM59FWKY02E9PG3AIPRU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Last Days in California On a walk today we saw these owlish-looking pods on what appeared to be a eucalyptus tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454860147061-3S6JJUZ9HTBMQFK0VQFU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Last Days in California The bark on a neighboring tree was a work of art in itself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454860187614-3E1F6W5XAXEFV73ROWWZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Last Days in California This cormorant swam close to us during our bayside walk. We'll see cousins of these guys on our bay in Maine when we get home—unless they've already headed south. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/day-at-the-museum monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454860260112-IOGWH7BQ9490Y8VVZ5KW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Day at the Museum Pamelia sized up her hand against the cast of a gorilla's hand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454860297020-31RKZSFD2SPONU83FZ92/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Day at the Museum The academy's two-and-a-half-acre living roof is growing 73 species of native plants in a six-inch layer of soil. The roof insulates the building well in winter in summer, reduces rain runoff and attracts butterflies and birds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454860382188-UPUA8CW8ROW43J0WXEL3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Day at the Museum The most spectacular bird flying around the academy's rainforest exhibit was the paradise tanager, also known in Spanish as siete colores, or seven colors. The bird's wings are scarlet and yellow, adding to the black, green and three shades of blue elsewhere on him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454860414638-7GGV5FQN6DBC9QJGL5SD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Day at the Museum The academy's aquarium included these stinging sea nettles, which are carnivorous. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454860441600-DQ0LO0QRQX8V6K0DY3XE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Day at the Museum This graph shows the rapid increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which is causing climate change. And no, that is not a hoax. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/land-of-the-giants monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454860512502-OOA6FV1D06R2E5075UZE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Land of the Giants At the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge, this peregrine falcon surveyed the wetlands immediately below him, where thousands of ducks and geese squawked and quacked and hoped they wouldn't end up as his dinner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454860560704-V5IG2A0EZPI6BC2Y0APC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Land of the Giants The Sacramento refuge is the wintering home for millions of migratory waterfowl. We made three visits to the refuge and were newly amazed each time. Around dusk the sky would almost blacken with incoming geese, ducks and swans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454860596861-8T3VS9E542IV8B8CDUW6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Land of the Giants At Point Reyes, north of San Francisco, we looked down from a cliff onto these brown pelicans gliding across the powerful breakers and making their way back toward Mexico. The waves provide updrafts on which the birds ride. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454860634540-M9102UQKRT46N3CDE56N/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Land of the Giants At the Point Reyes Bird Observatory field station, we watched staffers carefully remove specimen birds such as this spotted towhee from netting. The birds are examined, measured, banded and set free. The Point Reyes Bird Observatory is one of the world's most important and respected avian research groups. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454860668500-DXMF4MRKT6XKEF4J97PQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Land of the Giants Baseball has been the talk of the state, of course. Dressed by coincidence in black and orange, Pamelia and I were presumed to be big Giants fans by the people we saw in Calistoga. Even policemen complimented us on the street for proudly wearing SF colors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454860700474-NB9OBVK1JD8GIXKMZ1UD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Land of the Giants I love these birds, called black-necked stilts. They have, proportionately, the longest legs of any North American birds. We saw this group at the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Refuge, an urban oasis on the fringe of the city of Sacrament https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454860729341-TFMZ8Q5GHXXR70M1Z3WB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Land of the Giants As you can see from the sign, I'm not the only one who likes black-necked stilts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454860757691-MO8EBV3F95AQTEPY2SL8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Land of the Giants Though we were looking for birds (and saw some beauties, including the bright-yellow-breasted Western meadowlark), Pamelia and I saw even more elk on a six-mile hike through the Tule Elk Reserve at Tomales Point, north of San Francisco. Tule (pronounced TOO-lee) is a type of plant—a bulrush—found in wetlands. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/oregon-to-california monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454860874029-DG7NCUCUX4U7Z6S9A82Y/img_0898_2-1024x709.jpg Blog - Oregon to California A small glimpse of the more than one hundred thousand geese and other water birds at Tule Lake in far northern California. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454860904566-GKQJPKS3QR3J0FF8W8IQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Oregon to California That's Albert Rim, a 2,500-foot high fault-line scarp that overlooks Albert Lake, a half-dried-up inland sea in Oregon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454860953957-H9RJNV4KSAZL2CAR2I0E/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Oregon to California We were worried that the Fremont-Winema National Forests in Oregon were on fire—the only signs we'd seen more often than forest-fire-warning signs were billboards and posters exhorting people not to use crystal methamphetamine—but it turned out that these were controlled burns of small piles of brush. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454860996208-CTEYI3QYU3S0WN8DO1Q7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Oregon to California This is one of the Western grebes that we saw on Tule Lake. I am attaching a link below to a short video that shows their amazing mating dance. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/checking-out-oregons-high-desert monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454861071251-A6IJA7MI4Z7SXP5R9B0U/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Checking Out Oregon's High Desert Despite being under the weather, Pamelia soldiered on, here looking for birds at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454861097753-1GIBWJRIQFUB3C11MJ0T/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Checking Out Oregon's High Desert The mountains we drove past showed relatively little vegetation, a reminder of how dry this part of Oregon is. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454861149153-JCAZA0MLFMBPZHRV7HOZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Checking Out Oregon's High Desert Here is the specimen of the mountain bluebird. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454861180938-0G347V7TONE7OHE5DUC8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Checking Out Oregon's High Desert The climate and volcanic soil (also good for Idaho's famous potatoes) has helped Eastern Oregon produce some of the world's best onions (mostly large, yellow ones). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454861211414-ALKNKIU7ACM6POD0E88L/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Checking Out Oregon's High Desert Like the geese at Malheur, we're traveling again. After a rental car swap here in Boise we'll go back into Oregon toward Crater Lake and the Klamath National Wildlife Refuge. Unfortunately, the forecast calls for several days of rain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454861249285-QZ719QOGJWNVWHUTFUDX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Checking Out Oregon's High Desert Behind me at the falconry exhibit is a Bedouin tent with Arabic-speaking mannequins discussing the ancient sport. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/boise-and-birds monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454861681588-ZMVWVUT771FC34DCID01/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Boise and Birds Scores of Canada geese perched on the edge of Idaho Falls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454861767688-5T8E0VM1XR7WO4D2EW66/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Boise and Birds I scrambled to get a photo of this lovely bird at a rest stop in a desolate stretch of Idaho. Please correct me, ornithologists, but it looks like a Western scrub-jay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454861839766-DXBIL9YM607ETMX9053A/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Boise and Birds The sky changed constantly, and beautifully, as we drove across Idaho. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454861874462-78HZW9G5EDBGYYNPCMU1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Boise and Birds A volunteer brought out a Northern harrier for us to see. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454861929747-XOBZ2WETZMVI81G6TL1X/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Boise and Birds The rear talon of this harpy eagle is larger than a bear's claw; the talons are said to grip with a thousand pounds of pressure per square inch, five times the force our jaws and teeth use when chewing meat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454861989683-ZZMRKZ3U320GJDFEUMNG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Boise and Birds This is a cast of the earliest bird fossil ever found, the archaeopteryx from about 150 million years ago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454862036882-PBOVJLA2268D3C8YJXD5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Boise and Birds Another volunteer at the World Center for Birds of Prey brought out this American kestrel, the smallest type of falcon in North America and now one of my favorite birds. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/a-day-in-utah monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454862255216-FH3MWXT8EMH7GK53CLCO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Day in Utah https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454862289623-2L5RPBASKS870J73AZZL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Day in Utah The landscape surrounding Bear River migratory-bird refuge provided a stunning backdrop for several hours of exploring bird-friendly wetlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454862317506-JXV22AM49V7UH38XHZR3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Day in Utah This larger-than-life model of an American avocet resides at the Bear River refuge's superb educational center. A couple of hours after visiting that, we saw a young American avocet out on the reserve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454862344719-0Y9JT32HKYTHX1P9ZZIM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Day in Utah Brigham City welcomes visitors with a Main Street declaration of its birding heritage. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/blowing-into-idaho monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454862502494-XST5J51S4YUCY9IMKR76/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Blowing Into Idaho The strong, whipping winds at the Camas National WIldlife Refuge in Idaho made flying hard work for the migrating waterfowl—and holding a camera steady impossible for a photographer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454862554014-BTE3VWF4E48QQVK0J8FI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Blowing Into Idaho This frisky young elk raced back and forth along the Madison River in Yellowstone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454862599260-XVF1F4AOIAPPOJAVUHL9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Blowing Into Idaho Several times we found ourselves in the middle of a herd of bison. One clueless woman got out of her car and stood a few feet in front of a bison to take its photo. She was lucky; the animal didn't attack her, as sometimes happens with park visitors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454862639251-CM3GVPID6N4DWIG9CH76/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Blowing Into Idaho Because Yellowstone sits atop a supervolcano, it never fails to put on an eerie, awesome show of thermal pools and mud pots. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454862675901-HDCK8LDZ82CAIE76Y4DK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Blowing Into Idaho These pronghorn antelope greeted us as soon as we entered Yellowstone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454862723745-0FHDNT3D2NFV9VD8UPYR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Blowing Into Idaho This elk let out a mighty, high-pitched, valley-filling cry to its companions, calling them over before the whole group crossed the road, https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/welcome-to-montana monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454863100028-IPV20RMM9JXLXU2AFVG3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Welcome to Montana montanapalsThese three buddies hung out together in Fairfield, Montana, exchanging licks, nuzzles and love nips. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454863119332-YLZIE0HCRTNFP5HXYWN3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Welcome to Montana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454863280779-JM3J1KQ3MGS7FP7RPUD7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Welcome to Montana More from Mammoth Hot Springs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454863304311-JO2WJ6RT11CVCLJX89FL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Welcome to Montana On the road from the Great Falls area to Helena. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/big-cats-playing-with-pumpkins monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/last-blooms-before-the-frost monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454863387415-70OC9I71QMK0SQUEK26X/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Last Blooms Before the Frost In fall, as the Earth's orbit takes us closer to the sun and the sun moves lower in our Northern Hemisphere sky, the brilliant afternoon rays make our dahlias look even more beautiful https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454863430532-WAI0P7A2H1WPI6M83NFJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Last Blooms Before the Frost https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454863475516-Z67JJ2FS5QVG21DXX5FR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Last Blooms Before the Frost https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454863507270-WHG0HX39WC7DAYMR2KQY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Last Blooms Before the Frost https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/the-end-of-our-regular-season monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454863578703-8LT6BUQIBBXVB8QP5S9Q/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The End of Our Regular Season The maples on the Maine coast are turning, as they produce anthocyanin—the same powerful antioxidant that gives fruits such as blueberries and grapes their color and cancer-fighting potency. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454863622291-OCUVKCM8W0PL5RRW6ZSU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The End of Our Regular Season Arthur showed us how to strip the fiber from inside a stiff milkweed stalk and—through a series of twists and weaves—make it into a sturdy cord.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454863660313-J5S8SM1DJE3G1YQZFB8F/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The End of Our Regular Season This is what the milkweed stalks looked like before we removed the inner fiber and turned it into the sort of twine you see wrapped around this bundle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454863693280-PBEZLQKW8ZNZ9Y4AA1AC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The End of Our Regular Season Vlad, an exchange student from Kazakhstan, was a roaring success at friction fire-making. Afterwards I had a great talk with him about his coin collection, his new love of American football, how difficult it is to take an English-language biology test while thinking in Russian, and how much he loves seeing the ocean after growing up in the world's largest landlocked country. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454863756052-745EQC0CCY38QQB4KD4R/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The End of Our Regular Season Goodbye, Fantastic Mr. Fox: One of our favorite Notebook characters, a felted puppet with a heartfelt look, got a new adoptive family on Saturday, but said he might come back to visit. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/coming-saturday-arthur-haines monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454863798716-RFWJ2U320WGSGS5Z3TJH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Coming Saturday: Arthur Haines Before our May plant walk, Arthur demonstrated friction fire-making; he's trying to keep knowledge of that and other primitive skills alive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454863836619-F919BTCTIXEQHMKGKWIC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Coming Saturday: Arthur Haines I'm tempted to say that the sea star was waving hello, but you should have seen the range of contortions it went through over the span of a few minutes. One pose reminded me of a 1989 Sports Illustrated cover of Eagles quarterback Randall Cunningham leaping through the air with his arm cocked back to throw a pass. Look for cool shots of this echinoderm at the Notebook next year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454863934274-70VQPOBTA6GO75ABXUVW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Coming Saturday: Arthur Haines This is what our bay looks like at super-low tide, an event that happens several times a year because of the gravitational pull of the moon. Six hours earlier the water level was almost 14 feet higher and the bay was chock-a-block full. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/indias-pollinator-problem-and-other-news monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454863996972-IZTL2362JPFXZRDMH2MN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - India's Pollinator Problem (and Other News) The bees are still busy up here in Maine; this one was enjoying a friend's garden two weeks ago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454864059317-LS8F63B4HFI3KZ8C221W/image-asset.jpeg Blog - India's Pollinator Problem (and Other News) Of the two dozen turkeys who've been hanging out at our place lately, this is the only one who seems eager to travel with us on our upcoming western road trip to see the birds on the Pacific Flyway migration. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/october-at-eagle-lake monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454864103802-82JEFBR0LFTLZ5EP82W2/image-asset.jpeg Blog - October at Eagle Lake The view south across the lake toward the mountains known as the Bubbles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454864125437-FXJ9Z92KVND1903QIGIQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - October at Eagle Lake Is this a downed tree or steer lying in a clearing? Though Acadia isn't known for its cattle, we'll say both. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454864164493-Q4EOPA6TE6LNZY9IBOXZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - October at Eagle Lake O.K., so use your imagination again. I see a woolly mammoth facing us, rearing its tusked head and trunk. Think I'm crazy? Compare it to the image that follows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454864184516-LTA4JMD5X8U9Z257BS87/woolymammoth.jpeg Blog - October at Eagle Lake So what do you think? A mammoth exaggeration? https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/happy-bird-day monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454864354337-0BJMLG708TLG6MFG0WFH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Happy Bird Day We watched the crow chase the bald eagle for several minutes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454864409161-OCS7ZKEKWPRDX5DRI5T4/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Happy Bird Day Woodpecker or railbird? This was shot through a window with a screen on it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454864427685-P61QYH2YTUECEY526SNY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Happy Bird Day A little gift of a little bird. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/did-a-mushroom-lead-to-the-word-berserk monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454864511018-35Z4ZCWI4AQBT4KA04NR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Did a Mushroom Lead to the Word "Berserk"? This variety of fly agaric mushroom is one of several types that have been sprouting all over the lawn at the Markwood family cottage on Maine's Union River Bay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454864581673-61R8V1ZE964718QWJHC0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Did a Mushroom Lead to the Word "Berserk"? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454864609353-Y9JCEZ27YPQW9USVBRIY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Did a Mushroom Lead to the Word "Berserk"? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454864667435-09CO58IWH3NCZRXNUUDC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Did a Mushroom Lead to the Word "Berserk"? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454864690953-MTS3AU3G9XTGP1FS5BTF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Did a Mushroom Lead to the Word "Berserk"? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454864707975-K7EE63KJW7XU2WXZC911/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Did a Mushroom Lead to the Word "Berserk"? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454864731558-051K28UII4I33SUW5HLG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Did a Mushroom Lead to the Word "Berserk"? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454864749934-4RTXBVM0LK4RDNZKPJ15/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Did a Mushroom Lead to the Word "Berserk"? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454864772433-XTPJ7IRV1RNTDH9MVIOI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Did a Mushroom Lead to the Word "Berserk"? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454864789466-K5UXY9BJNXT1YHJF225F/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Did a Mushroom Lead to the Word "Berserk"? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454864813962-6R8YOQWHH6NJJI4ZN4Q2/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Did a Mushroom Lead to the Word "Berserk"? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454864835379-EPNYX5G1U149SV5ZEDAH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Did a Mushroom Lead to the Word "Berserk"? https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/a-budding-naturalist-at-age-14 monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454864887370-NHPAEU4CHRAH09511TJY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Budding Naturalist at Age 14 Back in the summer of 2009, Sarah (and Pamelia and our god-daughter Lily) got stuck in the mud while trying to cross to Alley Island via a mucky mussel bed. Bad day to wear white! https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/a-rays-runaway monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454874778690-IK0HL9KUYFXH68MA9K09/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Rays Runaway The Little Green Monster scoreboard, a fixture at the Notebook, keeps track of the nine major league baseball teams with names taken from nature—what we call The Natural League. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454874809622-GZVJHMS6EDS01OJ4LYNH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Rays Runaway Rays manager Joe Maddon, whose spectacles have drawn comparisons to those of Elvis Costello and Spencer Tracy. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/good-morning-maine monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454874860492-2NIQ3ZQTX2BHDH2W018A/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Good Morning, Maine The view from our house over Western Bay this morning. Those are Cadillac and Sargent mountains on the left. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/whole-foods-smart-move monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454874899271-3DSF6D7TGVQ7S2S8Z69Q/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Whole Foods' Smart Move On our oceans map at the Notebook, we show more than more than three dozen types of seafood, color-coded using the Blue Ocean Institute's sustainability ratings. The red means don't eat it because of either depleted fish population or damaging fishing methods used to catch it; the red flag means the fish also contains high levels of toxins. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/three-months-later-the-great-sun-chips-bag-composting-test-and-more monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454874940075-WHNWVBE31APMWMFNMSCH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Three Months Later: The Great Sun Chips Bag Composting Test (And More) https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/stargazing-and-other-fall-treats monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454875036772-G0XW3X27OVNCGFN9NWO6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Stargazing and Other Fall Treats A handful of reasons to be in good spirits this weekend up here in Notebook-land: https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/big-numbers monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454875086658-TAZSQLZD0HNFVT1QCSYG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Big Numbers On the Notebook chalkboard we update the estimated world population each day; every 24 hours the world population grows by more than 200,000. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/maine-the-magazine monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454875128519-3L8125PW7F41X0JS2Q7A/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Maine. The Magazine https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/the-2010-honey-champion monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454875169225-O5CTICAQ8XXOWE5M725K/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The 2010 Honey Champion Eliminated in a first-round overtime match one year ago by eventual runner-up New York basswood, Maine wild raspberry beat Illinois buckwheat, that same New York basswood, Washington pumpkin blossom and Pennsylvania alfalfa to win this year's Sweet 16. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454875189833-WPW4NGBLJXDB22K804KI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The 2010 Honey Champion Pennsylvania alfalfa—down by a dozen votes yesterday morning—closed to within eight by late yesterday afternoon but ran out of time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454875216458-00RJFCF8CPCYSJW64J9E/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The 2010 Honey Champion The 2009 champion makes its return this week in a Super Showdown with the 2010 winner. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/newspaper-story-on-pamelia-and-her-tidal-photos monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454875259296-AHDLOW7PK4CB4Z2WYNHU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Newspaper Story on Pamelia and Her Tidal Photos https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/disneynatures-pollinator-movie monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454875304015-GSHDSZPFNNJ0JM4LJTU2/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Disneynature's Pollinator Movie Our pollinators section includes a display about Paul and his film. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/migration-time monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454875397017-H0O2BKY295FF0JSTHRKW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Migration Time https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/what-happened-to-my-lunch monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454875445994-N6J5ZKQF6636X3KHSNIV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What Happened to My Lunch sandwich https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/look-who-crawled-in monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454875621738-15VNIW9WU1WUNVF6UK1B/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Look Who Crawled In Kids in our art program discovered this cute critter climbing up the dog's leash. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454875656667-RGEEI1GS1DB1Z1ZQ9VT2/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Look Who Crawled In What looks like a child's pull toy will soon fly away as a yellow-and-black tiger swallowtail butterfly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454875703571-XDKMOJY8MMEFM8XTK1H5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Look Who Crawled In This troll made his way to the Notebook from Germany as part of a trip that he hopes will also take him to Alaska and Tierra del Fuego. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454875807540-G9SCC95M8XKNCRFWKSJD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Look Who Crawled In Random shot from yesterday: Frog buddies at a garden pond in Seal Harbor. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/scandal-at-the-sweet-16-tournament-did-fritz-the-dog-influence-the-outcome monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454875850729-20ZU851C4WFKFL2TYA8C/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Scandal at the Sweet 16 Tournament: Did Fritz the Dog Influence the Outcome? Our investigation showed that Fritz has been secretly tasting and voting—but we're not sure if that's against the rules. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454875899453-DFMQ640TBZIN6Z6G18B8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Scandal at the Sweet 16 Tournament: Did Fritz the Dog Influence the Outcome? We're narrowed the 16 competitors to a Final Four: Pennsylvania alfalfa, Florida orange blossom, Maine wild raspberry and Washington pumpkin blossom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454875928435-GKQ3Y78KKQAOAZMKORK4/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Scandal at the Sweet 16 Tournament: Did Fritz the Dog Influence the Outcome? sealharbfogThis week in Seal Harbor: Though we've had gorgeous weather, the fog on the ocean forced the cancellation of several whale-watching trips from nearby Bar Harbor. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/back-to-work monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454876644874-G3F5DQR32I8XORE12WDP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Back to Work Our ants have been tunneling through a blue gelatin devised by NASA when it sent some of their comrades into space as part of an experiment. The gel provides food, water and a reason to dig. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454876680637-ZVO6K4QTNT4B4898GMOS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Back to Work This is the future London Olympic stadium, part of a 500-acre Olympic Park complex being built on reclaimed industrial land in East London. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454876702981-H4CQMPFHB3KA1DN8XVIA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Back to Work Here's the outside view of the stadium. Olympic organizers have been cleaning up a small river that runs through the Olympic Park; because the river branches, the stadium actually sits on an island. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454876726357-UULXX5KVRLGY0K6VF6A0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Back to Work The basketball arena is a beautiful but temporary structure with a fabric covering. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454876751235-GCL0MK0ZZE42YO4JX00X/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Back to Work The dirt at the Olympic Park was so filled with toxins that organizers have set up an emergency room to clean it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454876771504-NN47PS6EMI5TLKZ9A7JE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Back to Work The 2012 mascots are one-eyed metallic creations name Wenlock and Mandeville; the names have historical significance based on Britain's role in helping to inspire the modern Olympics and the Paralympics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454876789999-BJSKA41E2Z9H6P05WJBO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Back to Work The attendees at the Olympic press meetings were taken on a boat ride on the Thames to see a few of the Olympic venues and landmarks like Big Ben. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454876809742-SPH2IAWVBMLA0YCWOZB5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Back to Work Environmental themes came up regularly; the London Olympics are stressing sustainability and are doing things like recycling building materials and constructing stadiums with designs that use less steel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454876843370-T00KLB3XGPD7UJ0MT1IC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Back to Work Equestrian events will be held in Greenwich, home of the Royal Observatory and the same Greenwich that is referred to in the term Greenwich Mean Time. That line you see (near the observatory) divides the Eastern Hemisphere (on the left) from the Western Hemisphere (on the right). I straddled the line and stood in two hemispheres at once. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454876867914-DQ5W2R92XSLUIX11ZN0B/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Back to Work This has nothing to do with the Olympics, and I believe the name is pronounced good-now, but I couldn't walk past this London school without smiling at what the name LOOKS like: the perfect institution for slacker kids.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454876901920-EGIUF8ORDUHZSPIAE44T/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Back to Work Back at the Notebook, Kathy Coe has been giving art workshops for kids twice a day and offering portrait and oil-painting lessons on weekends; here she is working on a drawing of daughter Anthea. This coming weekend artist Kathi Smith will run a two-day en plein air drawing-with-ink workshop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454876923100-PPBT6BBIR2GQ0Q6NO6MP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Back to Work honeybracketBy popular demand, our honey-tasting tournament is back. It's set up like the NCAA basketball tournament, with brackets and a single-elimination format. In the first three matches, Wisconsin Cranberry handily defeated Louisiana Wildflower 36-22 (in voting by people who tasted both); Pennsylvania Alfalfa pulled off a stunning 16-15 upset of Maine Blueberry; and Florida Orange Blossom edged North Carolina Sourwood 26-25. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/next-stop-london monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454877043690-JFXP01D6OWCZTIX2BHJ8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Next Stop: London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454877076043-1GZ6YL8I1GCGR3K1M481/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Next Stop: London We plan to experiment and make other holograms with our new illusion-creating device. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454877142750-VMCJTNEO03CP8XNB7ZGK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Next Stop: London Nat walked us through the secrets of finding the tens of thousands of geocache boxes hidden around the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454877172430-WJ4A95J3605262B4D1XF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Next Stop: London A big clue if you're looking for the treasure box we hid. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454877230118-8E3D6MLWYQQVFE4SC6GB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Next Stop: London A big clue if you're looking for the treasure box we hid. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454877272566-UCTHC5TYNNDJOAKDIP0Z/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Next Stop: London We've vowed to learn how to carve a successor to this departed beauty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454877313040-1834LBHBJ3890ZHC3N9U/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Next Stop: London Perhaps he—or she—was just hoping to find our ant and insect room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454877360741-8BZ7M7MLU5VHSLK49GKE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Next Stop: London I was trying to be creative with my mini-golf photography, but I don't think it worked. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/the-climbing-grey-fox monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454877407698-8YJXCB2GUARCOVCP9510/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Climbing Grey Fox Yes, that's a fox in a tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454877425823-N7TBB8L9Y2W3P0L5VSG8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Climbing Grey Fox Yes, that's a fox in a tree. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/tonights-maine-moon monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454877470333-RGJQU7SM0M4IXBT6NLIO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Tonight's Maine Moon https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/11-things-i-learned-while-hanging-out-at-the-naturalists-notebook-this-week monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454877518306-4L2M9IUMQ4BCJQDB9ZOS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 11 Things I Learned While Hanging Out at The Naturalist's Notebook This Week This is not a trick photo: The globe is floating (and spinning), just like the Earth itself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454877562460-VD7M0EQZ4XWOWA0FN8YH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 11 Things I Learned While Hanging Out at The Naturalist's Notebook This Week These beautiful creatures get a bad rap in Europe, where they're called eye pokers, eye snatchers, devil's darning needles and adders' servants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454877590056-LT8AL0EK0F9ASIGRWXXZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 11 Things I Learned While Hanging Out at The Naturalist's Notebook This Week Even if you don't have the ability to create something like this while idling in line, you can do simple stick-figure sketches of what you observe. You might actually have some fun. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/straw-meets-potato-a-science-experiment monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454973446892-S6C9X9YVS1GUAQNB0YXN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Straw Meets Potato (A Science Experiment) You can do some amazing tricks with a potato, but as co-experimenters Lily and Anthea found out, you can't make one taste like a milkshake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454973469002-NEHO4VKPOAB4JI7GGF9D/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Straw Meets Potato (A Science Experiment) Who needs The Sword In the Stone when you can have the Straw In the Potato? https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/attack-of-the-hungry-gull monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454973569977-NXHFNQTCQX76APS17VFQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Attack of the Hungry Gull https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454973598487-RVI7U1PIPKRORAUC01L4/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Attack of the Hungry Gull The gull-op-ing gourmet enjoyed his meal-with-a-view, then flew off in search of another Acadia diner. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/photos-from-the-workshop monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454973680277-79UGF9XBBQGN29GJZ52B/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Photos From the Workshop Some of the 13 artists incorporated nature in their work, which they hand-stitched together into notebooks at day's end. Did you know that those maple whirligigs are edible if properly cooked, and that if you split the thicker seed part you can stick one onto the tip of your nose and look like a rhinoceros? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454973715777-CGMOCBBHAQZP71Y3QWE4/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Photos From the Workshop On a hot day, the group first met in the Notebook's renovated basement, where we keep and sell our natural history books. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454973735167-3IGIBB3BVBPDNLCQ1GAR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Photos From the Workshop On the tree-shaded deck, each artist tested different drawing media. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454973790404-E9HNH6MXDUXEJ6B48KJM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Photos From the Workshop After lunch and a demonstration of ink-making, many group members took the short stroll to Seal Harbor beach to work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454973818102-K9H38HNL74KPD0INPRH3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Photos From the Workshop Others preferred the shade of the Seal Harbor town green, just a couple of hundred feet from the Notebook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454973840760-8F9JME6BRWROS8D2AIBE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Photos From the Workshop Chris, one of the artists, found a particularly beautiful spot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454973866365-YG0LN6XJT5UXRCFD94JS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Photos From the Workshop Pamelia helped hold the paper for the youngest artist, Noah, as he did a rubbing on the Seal Harbor fountain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454973891229-5JHXAPPVM0IEOPDDAWOI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Photos From the Workshop There are way too many lovely drawings to show, but here's one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454973936601-HBXL5H8IZWCXA16BZQHH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Photos From the Workshop O.K., here's another. You may have to turn sideways to look at it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454973961426-RY3IEFQ3KXJMVWZGXGY8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Photos From the Workshop As previously noted, some people used natural elements to complement their drawing. I love the explosiveness of this. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454973990332-BXD59BLVJSW5AUOQ0ZN8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Photos From the Workshop The group, with Margaret (center): See how happy you look if you get out into nature and do something creative? https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/show-time monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454974032407-B79MFU5ZWD8MQB72JGR8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Show Time Margaret (shown at the studio at Spannocchia in Italy) will be teaching and also displaying her work at The Naturalist's Notebook. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/an-exciting-spell monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454974155424-EB462BN2FVNUAPMAIHR8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Exciting Spell in Maine notebook https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/do-you-get-things-like-this-in-the-mail monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454974314197-S0V5DXRJCI2CYALBCWY2/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Do You Get Things Like This In the Mail? What do you think of our new last name? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454974347101-M010W8QWRSDK5Q46FHSI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Do You Get Things Like This In the Mail? Why own a Picasso when you can look like one! https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/new-muppet-species-found monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454974434922-M6H9EEF8WR7T8UQWS91A/image-asset.jpeg Blog - New Muppet Species Found Tangerine first showed her face at The Naturalist's Notebook on Thursday afternoon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454974477972-0FULC52N4R4XL4ZAKZJD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - New Muppet Species Found Note the resemblance between Tangerine and Betsy. That's Jowill, Betsy's husband and the designer of The Naturalist's Notebook logo, in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454974526439-YOO33WU0RHXX9KWR7BAJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - New Muppet Species Found Anne will show how she makes some of her beautiful pieces. This one is called Chaos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454974563812-YPJHZIYE7C18X4WAV8FO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - New Muppet Species Found Bill working on a cartoon at his studio in Portland. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/10-things-that-happened-at-the-notebook-this-week monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454974626046-KLPEGOAKVDXTC7HXHY5F/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 10 Things That Happened at The Notebook This Week On the hike, we showed this young guy how to do a rubbing of a beech leaf—and he was electrified. Everyone in the group kept a notebook in which he or she sketched, took notes, did rubbings or—later on—put photographs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454974670921-Z0MZCU6YEZOXNT1YYLZK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 10 Things That Happened at The Notebook This Week The view from the North Bubble out over Jordan Pond to the Atlantic Ocean. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454974723850-4KIJ4NUDC1EG7TW0ZQPG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 10 Things That Happened at The Notebook This Week Steve (left) added a lot of fun to our day and gave me someone to talk to about Lebron James and his future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454974782368-3O810W7IYE97N2M0HH47/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 10 Things That Happened at The Notebook This Week Our French friend Clement amazed even himself by solving our nail puzzle and then balancing six nails on a fingertip. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454974812717-S51MQ9KCCBRHTM54ZVON/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 10 Things That Happened at The Notebook This Week Lindsey will bring her bird-rescue skills and a writer's eye to the Gulf oil tragedy. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/great-piece-on-gulf-disaster monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454974910137-50V5LEOH5KO61LO2ZTDA/gulf1-768x1024.jpg Blog - Great Piece on Gulf Disaster https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/bar-harbor-times-article monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454974996219-FHVMZQ3MMUOT3PZ8FD6M/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Bar Harbor Times Article People who come into the Notebook are amazed by Pamelia's low-tide photography. They are often startled by the colors and by the blue starfish she shoots. This is not a photo from the shop, but it shows how small those blue starfish are—just look at them next to mussel shells. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/go-climb-a-mountain monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454975098937-2X2N632JO1QDEMADZLW9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Go Climb a Mountain After towing us to the top of Cedar Swamp Mountain, Wooster needed a breather. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454975146281-QU2AWNGMJ8ZVKH2KQEJW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Go Climb a Mountain Tom Lawrence enlivens each climb with his photography tips, nature knowledge and wonderful sense of humor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454975173676-JCQDOGXPG4E5CUTH4LGA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Go Climb a Mountain Our Acadia map board offers guidance on where to climb and hike. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/dont-swat-that-mosquito-its-part-of-an-artwork-that-has-people-buzzing monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454975241466-FD0ITYA7ZOD22Q6OA35R/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Don't Swat That Mosquito! It's Part of an Artwork that Has People Buzzing Rocco's mechanical mosquito flies around his artwork now on display at the Notebook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454975274136-F4SO5K6EXIJV8FPHQ8LN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Don't Swat That Mosquito! It's Part of an Artwork that Has People Buzzing Notebook visitors have been enjoying taking a 3D look at the surprises inside Rocco's Acadia-inspired piece. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454975311728-1U416W8B7E9ZS83YNZT5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Don't Swat That Mosquito! It's Part of an Artwork that Has People Buzzing That's Rocco with a 3-D camera he created—it's two side-by-side cameras that he has rigged up to shoot simultaneously. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/bangor-daily-news-feature monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454975398177-PKFOT68V3SRNSRA7ZWNT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Bangor Daily News Feature Bangor Daily News photographer John Russ visited the shop last week to shoot photos for the article. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/happy-fathers-day monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454975538550-F1S2P3MDM645PSFWBLZ0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Happy Father's Day My dad and mom preparing signs and hat displays in The Naturalist's Notebook workshop at our house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454975566845-VSULFTRU93ZTHEDAPLYR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Happy Father's Day From left: Dad, Brian and I on Cape Cod, sometime in the 1960s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454975603171-X76DLBSJPF1J4GNUIOFL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Happy Father's Day From left: Pamelia's brother, Scott; her mom, Pam; Pamelia; and her dad, Bill, at Au Mouton de Panurge restaurant in Paris in the 1960s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454975632232-IJUYRSM6SF0XYQETXOP9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Happy Father's Day One of Pamelia's favorite shots of her dad, also taken in the 1960s in Europe, where the family lived during a big chunk of Pamelia's childhood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454975670293-VLBIYCAP36KUOGNAMIKN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Happy Father's Day Pamelia's late stepfather, Bob Voris, with her mom in North Carolina. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/another-fine-mess monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/sneak-peek-at-the-notebook monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454975840058-H4XT0947DM2KCSY3J0HC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Sneak Peek at the Notebook The Notebook is still a bit chaotic, but by June 21 we'll have it ready. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/the-sun-chip-composting-test monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454976031871-4S1N2SSLGOJ05BD3O3YG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Sun Chip Composting Test https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454976076449-L3HKE27JCN869IKQLWWX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Sun Chip Composting Test The composter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454976108506-FHD7M3LPCT4Y9D5B0TMO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Sun Chip Composting Test Side order of chips with those leftover cooked fiddlehead ferns? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454976136062-AKWBAHUC5F8MX3S9A9WE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Sun Chip Composting Test Saving the planet ain't always pretty. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/memorial-day-animal-picnic monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454976271020-IPHE3YPFBDUJ0YN5SW7U/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Memorial Day Animal Picnic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454976306175-0I8T24M9J3BBSWHQK2B5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Memorial Day Animal Picnic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454976336983-L2B4XBI6U330FJFZPS50/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Memorial Day Animal Picnic https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/tadpole-buddies-a-plant-genius-and-my-yellow-warbler monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454976381799-X9BSUVUYLUZJMMK1H8XS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Tadpole Buddies, a Plant Genius and My Lonely Yellow Warbler I saw these huge bullfrog tadpoles (at least seven inches long including tail) hanging out in Little Long Pond, less than a mile from The Naturalist's Notebook. They weren't part of Arthur Haines's walk, but they were one of my favorite sightings of the week (see bottom of column). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454976407541-VKFWDELJSUJTCC9UL0UU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Tadpole Buddies, a Plant Genius and My Lonely Yellow Warbler Pamelia learned the hard way that burdock leaves are painfully sour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454976436926-K8BHSU51D4D1SX52F15T/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Tadpole Buddies, a Plant Genius and My Lonely Yellow Warbler Arthur has an excellent plant book coming out. I'll let you know when it's released. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454976463963-S1TIGVU1R3CUVJUKUOWR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Tadpole Buddies, a Plant Genius and My Lonely Yellow Warbler That's a dreaded Japanese knotweed in front of Arthur, who nevertheless had a few good things to say about a plant that has been ranked among the world's 100 worst invasive species. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454976498313-DT3OD8BQQ79SVFQIRCN2/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Tadpole Buddies, a Plant Genius and My Lonely Yellow Warbler I hope this guy finds a mate; his daily songs seem to have gone unanswered. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/the-gorilla-connection monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/amazing-green-apartment-344-sf-24-rms monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/nice-notebook-review monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454976630506-OEYHMV2OSAE2QVWOVHMH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Nice Notebook Review https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454976655711-AA1EAIAA7KHX0F2YAKE9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Nice Notebook Review A guide to get if you're planning to visit Acadia. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/oil-and-sea-turtles-dont-mix monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454976702380-4SRKC0DBDOVCVIAIO0UE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Oil and Sea Turtles Don't Mix https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454976734955-9HNZWLKL9ZT3TG3RWW50/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Oil and Sea Turtles Don't Mix https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/good-way-to-start-the-day monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/dna-dmc-and-ufo monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454976822158-93OC00ZRBZ5F9V8CBEZS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - DNA, DMC and UFO? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454976851862-8T7IRC7M3HLBGW7D8CXD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - DNA, DMC and UFO? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454976934383-LZHWDFOHXBARGA9JCTYU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - DNA, DMC and UFO? Pamelia came up with a few low-tide treasures, if no alien ones. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/the-chiusdino-climber monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454977028028-0IQ2197GZJQRD6G2B2EI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Chiusdino Climber https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/the-notebook-in-italy-our-tuscan-top-10 monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454977096450-QN0EXSM7HZIN6RH38WBF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook in Italy: Our Tuscan Top 10 The morning fog at Spannocchia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454977117445-IB8SE1TAIN9TLVO8H6PT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook in Italy: Our Tuscan Top 10 The nearly thousand-year-old Spannocchia farm complex hosts guests, workshops and educational programs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454977140176-F30FZYN4DAEWNDTYFHAI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook in Italy: Our Tuscan Top 10 From the ancient stone tower you can see much of Spannocchia's 1,100 acres of farmland and forest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454977175809-EEAZAJWCKU0VJQTDGZRD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook in Italy: Our Tuscan Top 10 Our morning drawing sessions usually began on the lawn near these lemon trees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454977466756-FGGLBVH45O5J0XKAL4HE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook in Italy: Our Tuscan Top 10 With food, music and dance we celebrated May Day, which is a much bigger holiday in Europe than in the States. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454977209534-SADE8X0HJC1JS0YRKMIK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook in Italy: Our Tuscan Top 10 Look just beyond the vegetable garden and you'll see me on the stone stairs sketching with ink, pencil and conte crayon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454977227308-RRM8ZV0P377WY2T7PTOJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook in Italy: Our Tuscan Top 10 Here Margaret is mixing a coating that we put onto paper to use for silver-point drawing; the silver-point pens etch the image into the coating. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454977259747-RSZAIWZKEKXQWMKGNX7M/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook in Italy: Our Tuscan Top 10 In the studio one morning I drew a black-and-gray feather I'd found. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454977284566-5KQJ433TNW8CUXYYKMZ6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook in Italy: Our Tuscan Top 10 Pamelia with some quick night sketches she did in iron-gall ink; Margaret had us go out after dark to do these so-called nocturnes, which were a blast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454977314468-P91LYWHALT2HTC2VXPVC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook in Italy: Our Tuscan Top 10 Lapo, one of the resident dogs, liked lounging outside the wisteria-draped studio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454977334033-54LTN0YCO9GGXFD6EHI7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook in Italy: Our Tuscan Top 10 At week's end we in the Seeing and Drawing program hung our works for an evening art show. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454977359994-4TCPV3UOSG8HCA6GHBEM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook in Italy: Our Tuscan Top 10 Daniela from the Cavolfiori a Merenda team served our borage soup, which included a dollop of ricotta with two borage flowers (also known as starflowers) on top. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454977619117-71VK1M9X16QNHGYIL5DB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook in Italy: Our Tuscan Top 10 The Cavolfiori group also put on a meal for 60 on the lawn at Spannocchia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454977664797-CK3GSDBOFS0OD9CALMKH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook in Italy: Our Tuscan Top 10 The museum didn't label this unicorn-like bird except as part of the cotingidae family; a peacock-sized bird with a similar thorn sticking out of its head turned out to be a South American variety called—gotta love this name—the horned screamer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454977689445-94YCZOTY10B4MA67RCLL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook in Italy: Our Tuscan Top 10 Florence's famous Ponte Vecchio bridge over the Arno pre-dates the Renaissance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454977727055-49W6AEMRN2JO8U25UNI6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook in Italy: Our Tuscan Top 10 Isla's tutorial on plants had us nibbling mallow, dandelions, sour thistle and other wild treats. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454977763585-15ZR46F67VRCSH8V8DN4/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook in Italy: Our Tuscan Top 10 Black and white are the symbolic colors of Siena, and they make the cathedral both striking and fun to sketch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454977792067-Q0LZ3HCB77XEJA5I1MPV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook in Italy: Our Tuscan Top 10 My best cat buddy came along for the ride when I went out to do a nocturne drawing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454977819782-KP3QSHCM7C5GIILFZQNH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook in Italy: Our Tuscan Top 10 Other curious observers came by the studio window to watch us work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454977850480-W73SRVA8SOC2YKJY76G7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook in Italy: Our Tuscan Top 10 The distinctively striped Cinta Senese breed has been a symbol of Tuscany for centuries—but nearly went extinct. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454977872287-6HTSOOZP243ZQPYYDOTJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Notebook in Italy: Our Tuscan Top 10 The Tuscan rapeseed was so vibrant that you could see the fields of it from the plane when landing. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/quick-hello-from-italy monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/happy-earth-day monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/utter-horsetaill monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454978508518-0YNCGAQOY507BISTW7OZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Utter Horsetail! Hmmmm...too thin to be a mushroom; jail stripes too far apart for it to be a convict cleaning the roadside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454978540476-184GC8DB6D0M2ZEM4D2S/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Utter Horsetail! https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/elephant-meets-dog monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/maine-movie-night-earth-disaster monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454978651201-JCAGCD7HIZLNT0CVLPUA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Maine Movie Night: Earth Disaster! The world gets a shakeup in Roland Emmerich's now-rentable catastro-flick. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/panda-monium-and-maine-in-blue monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454978691682-7SVMLSMU6N26QTBVKYDW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Panda-monium (and Maine in Blue) These pandas were rescued from the recent devastating earthquake in China. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454978713415-CY9B92RKY9SQ932MU48O/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Panda-monium (and Maine in Blue) I think pandas usually prefer the shoots, leaves and stems of bamboo, but milk seems O.K. with these young ones. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454978737165-S8HHRFR8S612AOTW0V92/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Panda-monium (and Maine in Blue) This tree fungus reminded me a little of the shells on our shore. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454978755593-8R68DG1839E0JCN6XVKW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Panda-monium (and Maine in Blue) Our sprouting hostas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454978784343-9TY9FEN0EQQPLIBZI6E6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Panda-monium (and Maine in Blue) Thanks to the gulls, our lawn is decorated with mussel shells--perhaps the world's loveliest form of litter. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/another-problem-caused-by-deforestation monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454978824663-ERQ6AE21H4JQV9011FJ5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Another Problem Caused By Deforestation Someone e-mailed me this and I couldn't resist sharing it. https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/our-blog/planting-and-painting-dahlias-and-other-april-adventures monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454978865210-OKM6I99UZT85NZW59CJ1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Planting and Painting Dahlias (and Other April Adventures) One of Pamelia's dahlia paintings. If you'd like to see more, come to the Notebook this summer (or check out our website when we launch it later this spring). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454978889321-4S7IDJZYD3A36SWW3P36/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Planting and Painting Dahlias (and Other April Adventures) Not a bad setting for a morning of Maine coast planting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454978911607-BDQOTY5WDDBX5K1L0X65/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Planting and Painting Dahlias (and Other April Adventures) If you look closely, you'll see sprouts on the tangle of tubers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1454978932212-XLDZV2ZTAQ135520OS3H/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Planting and Painting Dahlias (and Other April Adventures) Could this be a doodlebug? A cheesy bug? 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If you want to see sights like this—a great white egret flying by last July—consider a summer trip to Maine's Mount Desert Island, Acadia National Park and The Naturalist's Notebook. 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Red Fox Pat Morris, Delaware https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442231033-I5C0J9PNLW11D207GCKK/grosbeakpinefemaleorimmatureJohnPizniurCanada1.jpg Nature Photos - Pine Grosbeak John Pizniur, Alberta, Canada https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442262590-ZA3LXA5B18AZITRVKQ3I/bluebirdeasternspringheatedbirdbathKathyJoDrakeEdgarCountyIL.jpg Nature Photos - Eastern bluebird Kathy Jo Drake, Illinois https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442275260-BVJO4TDQG0PZHBBER3FP/jayCaliforniascrubjayJaySpringMissionViejoCA.jpg Nature Photos - California scrub jay Jay Spring, California https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442291813-K750MVS3069UHXL00TJU/cranesSandhillHogSloughRichTurnercentralvalleyCA.jpg Nature Photos - Sandhill cranes Rich Turner, California https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442305577-262PN3YTZKO0OLETZAH6/marmotsNancyGallagherMountRainierWA.jpg Nature Photos - Marmots Nancy Gallagher, Washington https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442318419-HLFZQHVBDFUK56J6FCVO/toadsouthernJaxonLaneOsceolacountyFL1.jpg Nature Photos - Southern toad Jaxon Lane, Florida https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442332311-99SWTOS2FDWQRY6OVTLD/titlongtailedRobertWaterhouseUK.jpg Nature Photos - Long-tailed tit Robert Waterhouse, England https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442345400-TD3DNU2HP3WHTW97WE3Q/lizardgreenanoleincameliabushDebbieCoeForsterClaytonNC.jpg Nature Photos - Green anole lizard Debbie Coe Forster, North Carolina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442357266-0RQEP0YIZ435KVWQPHCT/californiacondors54andH9BobMaloyfrombridgeon89aoverColoradoRiverinAZ.jpg Nature Photos - California condors Bob Maloy, Arizona https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442384362-RII4M09JGLSD9VOGH4OD/tanagersummerbirdbathHarryFarthingTN.JPG Nature Photos - Summer tanager female Harry Farthing, Tennessee https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442395406-YW9O626485U8JFUGCQUU/sunflowerbeeColleenKuhnIL.jpg Nature Photos - Sunflowers Colleen Kuhn, Illinois https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442411116-6KDYONLL4W36QDPBD2WL/spiderwebCherylVineyOsentoskiKingstonMI.jpg Nature Photos - Spiderweb Cheryl Viney Osentoski, Michigan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442426292-3YFJ9GJEM4XJJY454ZF0/snipewilsonsAaronPietschMN.JPG Nature Photos - Wilson's snipe Aaron Pietsch, Minnesota https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442441724-2BX08L9VVIU8RTL9752J/PikaTomForkerPacificCrestTrail.jpg Nature Photos - Pika Tom Forker, Pacific Crest Trail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442454617-PJ1OQ0KGZJ4XI1TK69XC/sandhillcraneStephenWeddleJasperPulaskifishandwildlifeareaIN.jpg Nature Photos - Sandhill crane Stephen Weddle, Indiana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442474714-UQAJYXRTOMJ6A8Y28YXB/lynxcanadaMartySamisYukonterritoryCanada.jpg Nature Photos - Canada lynx Marty Samis, Yukon Territory, Canada https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442488283-NBU3F2II7HLARX0U28AA/insectmantisMichelleMiklikAL2.jpg Nature Photos - Praying mantis Michelle Miklik, Alabama https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442499765-TFKWKRF3ZUDSNQE5D9WR/hummingbirdrubythroatedMichaelCastelliupstateNY.jpg Nature Photos - Ruby-throated hummingbird Michael Castelli, Upstate New York https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442512000-XLFEM77LD8UHSH10HBT6/herongreatblueJoeGeggLancasterPA.jpg Nature Photos - Great blue heron Joe Gegg, Pennsylvania https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442529378-XFXPX4GW04RXO8II001E/hawkredshoulderedonbikerideWayneKaplanTalbertRegionalParkCostaMesaCA.JPG Nature Photos - Red-shouldered hawk Wayne Kaplan, California https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442547928-4IYTHF57ZIHTBAH74B22/grousegreatersageTinaTothSeedskadeeNWRWY.JPG Nature Photos - Greater sage grouse Tina Toth, Wyoming https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442562346-O0WLDY57XMC3LQ0JSHCV/gopherstriped13stripedgroundsquirrelDaphneKinzlerND.jpg Nature Photos - 13-striped ground squirrel Daphne Kinzler, North Dakota https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442577198-4PH5AEI84SRRY66I0MUW/fungiRoniDuckworthnearIronStationNC.jpg Nature Photos - Fungi Roni Duckworth, North Carolina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442594105-WAEHV218ZEFXI4MTS8XT/foxswiftTinaTothThunderBasinNationalGrasslandWY.JPG Nature Photos - Swift fox Tina Toth, Wyoming https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442608307-VPLE0E9USAT6ARLJN8A7/flickernorthernJohnPizniurCanada.jpg Nature Photos - Northern flicker John Pizniur, Alberta, Canada https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442639298-4M0II15GPLIULREJKU07/beargrizzlyjoanpotterchiefmountainroadMT.jpg Nature Photos - Grizzly Bear Joan Potter, Chief Mountain Highway, Montana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442651932-KLNUZEC1JC76X3EE2C81/bluebirdmountainJohnPizniurCanada4.jpg Nature Photos - Mountain Bluebirds John Pizniur, Alberta, Canada https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442666875-9BW1KX6HMLEPKLIGGD6U/warblerprothonotaryJannekeCaseFL.jpg Nature Photos - Prothonotary Warbler Janneke Case, Florida https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442687142-KA6U2TLET0HSV01RITER/cloudmtrainierWADebbieRober1.JPG Nature Photos - Lenticular Clouds Debbie Rober, Mount Rainier, Washington https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442700454-VHBV2MHEP74G1UPWXU0E/loonJohnPizniurcanada1.jpg Nature Photos - Common Loons John Pizniur, Alberta, Canada https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442713624-1YH83KCWZDWTR2C9B80C/topiCindyGurmannTanzania.jpg Nature Photos - Topi Cindy Gumann, Tanzania https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442722995-0779E6N9LPMNGFE9K7PM/elephantscindygurmannAfrica.jpg Nature Photos - Elephants Cindy Gurmann, Kenya https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442732979-IMBUJMFQQO72TEBEBMS4/indigobuntingAnwarAlomaisiNY1.jpg Nature Photos - Indigo Buntings Anwar Alomaisi, New York https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442746115-WAJ8IFRZSYYVNMVGJVZS/grasshopperCarolynVanderWeeleMI.jpg Nature Photos - Grasshopper Carolyn Vanderweele, Michigan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442761436-BKEISEA6CHC6Y33DBA4D/PapuanFrogmouthWetTropicsDaintreeQueenslandAustraliaMichaelBradley1.jpg Nature Photos - Papuan Frogmouth Michael Bradley, Wet Tropics of Queensland, Australia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442779189-GS74B5V88UVG8WXIXQMH/mooseJohnPizniurCanada1.jpg Nature Photos - Moose John Pizniur, Alberta, Canada https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442790450-5JTC3Z3K4JEK7P0L7V5C/bearbrownJaniceChampionBrooksFallsAK.jpg Nature Photos - Brown Bear Janice Champion, Katmai National Park, Alaska https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442805058-I8PU6AROGQIZCRZULPD8/butterflymonarchDianeOdenBlakeUnionHillAL.jpg Nature Photos - Monarch Butterfly Diane Oden Blake, Alabama https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442815042-2NR94P0R36MECQ3MHMBN/butterflyviceroyBarbaraStutzmanPlainCityOH.jpg Nature Photos - Viceroy Butterfly Barbara Stutzman, Ohio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442828055-I3L3IMPYWWC9J37TMIO4/lobstereggs1.jpg Nature Photos - Lobster with Eggs Pam Trieu, Maine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442853853-XSP98P0PQ1SU3VR1A7ZM/mantisSueASchneiderYorkPA.jpg Nature Photos - Praying Mantis Sue A. 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Great Egrets Barb Schwartz, York, Pa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442945109-GZTCMPWHRPMQFEOCAWWM/hummingbirdannaswithnestVinceGalardiSFareaCA4.jpg Nature Photos - Anna's Hummingbirds Vince Galardi, near San Francisco https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442957019-OQZMBDCO6C50FIBXUACW/frogbullRyanPerdziakNY.jpg Nature Photos - American Bullfrog Ryan Perdziak, Western New York https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442966130-1WUL7U8FVC4J844DVFVU/canadageese30plusgoslingsSeanNicolasUrbanekLincolnNE.jpg Nature Photos - Canada Geese Sean Nicolas Urbanek, Lincoln, Nebr. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442982903-97V4IQPMI9KD0QGZFG8R/foxesPaigeBaileyWarrenNJ1.jpg Nature Photos - Red Foxes Paige Bailey, Warren, N.J. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487442997360-O9QNOP08HI1CRVLRJ7O4/claysharpcrestedcaracarahuntingAZ.jpg Nature Photos - Crested Caracara Clay Sharp, Arizona https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443014010-DKFGKYGK18L7V807U1YH/bluebirdmomwithchickBarbaraStutzmanPlainCityOH.jpg Nature Photos - Eastern Bluebirds Barbara Stutzman, Plain City, Ohio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443025217-OM8C3LCOAR5047616YEL/loggerheadshrikeBeckySpenceReddingCA.jpg Nature Photos - Loggerhead Shrike BeckySpence, Redding, Calif. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443054109-T00QN7VSYICOVN0TE1ZO/whalehumpbackgullsJohnCollinsStellwagenBankoffCapeCodMA.jpg Nature Photos - Humpback Whale John Collins, off Cape Cod, Mass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443067247-P2BGRSP4D24M4H3YQ359/warbleryellowrumpedDaveBrookePA.jpg Nature Photos - Yellow-Rumped Warbler Dave Brooke, Magee Marsh, Ohio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443083091-IYGPAY44U4QZ870I7A7D/swallowtailedkiteKCKhodrChehabFL4.jpg Nature Photos - Swallow-tailed Kite KC Khodr Chehab, Florida https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443093842-R3OWAGF3ON9U0KJ4XTM4/sandhillcraneJaciPustelnikWeekiWacheeFL.jpg Nature Photos - Sandhill Crane Jaci Pustelnik, Weeki Wachee, Fla. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443105795-RWSYKV89B6WJANCYWWHB/warblerpalmDaveBrookePA.jpg Nature Photos - Palm Warbler Dave Brooke, Magee Marsh, Ohio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443116623-C1C3OABT00OCAJM1KPUJ/orioleMaryFarrellKroezenorthernMinongWI.jpg Nature Photos - Oriole Mary Farrell Kroeze, Minong, Wisc. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443146587-DNWM85758ER8BH7NJT4D/egretchchicksJohnCollinsRookeryGatorlandinOrlandoFL.jpg Nature Photos - Great Egret Chicks JohnCollins, Orlando, Fla. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443158420-OQSWUE7ET9V01Z9LXEOZ/avocetLarsGoedeckeSkaldervikenBayinSweden.jpg Nature Photos - Pied Avocet Lars Goedecke, Skalderviken Bay, Sweden https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443167925-ZT543ESG24D26NGTRFNE/bluebirdbabyGebBlandfordGainesvilleFL.jpg Nature Photos - Bluebird Chick Geb Blandford, Gainesville, Fla. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443179390-4BT1I73YN2JIVKF59PDP/cactuswrenGarySuidikasBigBendPark.jpg Nature Photos - Cactus Wren Gary Suidikas, Big Bend National Park, Texas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443189729-2KWD6SWXABKJDJO2E3W1/easternscreechowlKerryOBrienNeeMA.jpg Nature Photos - Eastern Screech Owl Kerry O'Brien Nee, Massachusetts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443204022-VHNGHRSV7S6I7VDNZE97/egretgreatrightaftermatingSueRoweGA.jpg Nature Photos - Great Egrets (right after mating) Sue Rowe, Georgia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443213254-GQ7HV0CBE4AMWHU10EY6/turkeytakeoffBrucePaneitznearOwensvilleMO.jpg Nature Photos - Wild Turkeys Bruce Paneitz, near Owensville, Mo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443225001-ZFE4PCFCIQHEB1A4DZPH/warblerhoodedGaryHufhamHighIslandTXTOSsanctuary.jpg Nature Photos - Hooded Warbler Gary Hufham, High Island, Texas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443236463-L96J7I3OWHRVZT5W84B1/gullsfightingoverfishJoeHalberstadt.jpg Nature Photos - Gulls Fighting Over a Fish Joe Halberstadt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443253068-31X0EVO76U3YK7S2JDGC/robinmudpuddlenestgatheringKimberGraham.jpg Nature Photos - American Robin Kimber Graham https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443266105-I6JCA0Q2DI17L47ERW2E/baldeaglechicksStephenWeddleFranklinCountyIN.jpg Nature Photos - Bald Eagle and Chicks Stephen Weddle, Franklin County, Ind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443275853-T6VIPIQYSQS39VUVZG01/cardinalfemalenotailDianeCook.jpeg Nature Photos - Female Cardinal with No Tail Diane Cook https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443288017-3991WLMKKUB547YFQ5AK/egretDaveBarryCA.jpg Nature Photos - Great Egret Dave Barry, northern California https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443296813-HIZ7HCE1B4IKCI0JODCD/bluejaybeakbrokenThomTindall.jpg Nature Photos - Blue Jay with Broken Beak Thom Tindall https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443305627-EHOP4LH04EMUN11QSA7C/summertanagerinmulberrybushGaryHufhamLafittesCovenearGalvestonTX.jpg Nature Photos - Summer Tanager Gary Hufham, Galveston, Texas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443316717-3712O68TQ2EBIDIPBJVV/bluebirdmountainCindySchaefferParkerCO.jpg Nature Photos - Mountain Bluebird Cindy Schaeffer, Parker, Colo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443328161-1WHBHWGPFVJ4KRUZ1E6K/warblerprothonotaryJanetPowersHighIslandTX.jpg Nature Photos - Prothonotary Warbler Janet Powers, High Island, Texas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443338607-EKISR3H74KC6DGNS8460/raccoonarewardofrehabbingChuckBraxtonNashvilleIN.jpg Nature Photos - Raccoon in Rehab Chuck Braxton, Nashville, Ind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443348305-4S7B2IWTK437EDTP8Q58/snowyowlKevinTalbotNH.jpg Nature Photos - Snowy Owl Kevin Talbot, New Hampshire https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443359945-PSAOE1O0L033W0423PMF/limpkinLaurenlinareswhileworkinginPalmBeachCountyFL.jpg Nature Photos - Limpkin Lauren Linares, Palm Beach County, Fla. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443372162-AXVZUZROYIF617Y0DB80/hummingbirdannasonbirdofparadiseTennesseeReed.jpg Nature Photos - Anna's Hummingbird Tennessee Reed, northern California https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443386393-UZRAGVCBBZZH028JAOUC/northernparulafirstforStephenWeddlesouthwestwayparkIndianapolisIN.jpg Nature Photos - Northern Parula Warbler Stephen Weddle, Indianapolis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443396944-MSDT3D5Q3I12ZRTW2TDR/sharpshinnedhawkClaudiaSennettMackupstateNY.jpg Nature Photos - Sharp-Shinned Hawk Claudia Sennett Mack, Upstate New York https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443409501-3Y0N4318VSK2GMJEIBVY/greentreefrogMichelleMiklikWeaverAL.jpg Nature Photos - Green Tree Frog Michelle Miklik, Weaver, Ala. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443422095-WZ5ZT15YY0NS2487SI9L/gullpelicanPeggyLucasHarborIslandSC.jpg Nature Photos - Laughing Gull and Pelican Peggy Lucas, Harbor Island, S.C. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443436744-9AEYH0AX528IIE4NMXK6/greatblueheronBrianLippeSanDiego.jpg Nature Photos - Great Blue Heron Brian Lippe, San Diego https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443472239-1OSQ8L9F6XIZ5HB1T2L0/woodduckdrakemichaelrossacciHornPondWoburnMAbreedingplumagestartingtoshow.jpg Nature Photos - Wood Duck Michael Rossacci, Horn Pond, Woburn, Mass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443484294-V7064SLEOALS62C3K1NM/roadrunnergreaterwithalligatorlizardlunchBrianLippeMissionTrailsSanDiegoCA.jpg Nature Photos - Roadrunner with Lizard Brian Lippe, Mission Trail, San Diego, Calif. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443494926-O92Q9J6BSO1JEIT7RC22/baldeagleblackvulture2AngelaWilliams-Tribble.jpg Nature Photos - Bald Eagle, Black Vulture, Armadillo Angela Williams-Tribble, Florida https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443505174-1ME3IC1409S5R1ODN8S0/baldeagleblackvulture1AngelaWilliams-Tribble.jpg Nature Photos - Bald Eagle, Black Vulture, Armadillo Angela Williams-Tribble, Florida https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443517307-RPO0299537WJIUVNRNEP/americangraytreefrogRyanPerdziak1.jpg Nature Photos - Gray Tree Frog Ryan Perdziak, upstate New York https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443528811-6HYHX7RO91V701W5UOG2/bluebirdbringlunchkimberGraham.jpg Nature Photos - Eastern Bluebirds Kimber Graham https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443541181-SZK6L34XTAK1VVH6KLOC/bluebirdJeffFlinnJenksOK.jpg Nature Photos - Eastern Bluebird Jeff Flinn, Jenks, Oklahoma https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443550069-LVSZ0FZMVJWERKYTC1K0/bluebirdThomTindall.jpg Nature Photos - Eastern Bluebird Thom Tindall https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443558196-O6K6Q4PLQK0RUV64T4M9/bluebird1CarolynFelder.jpg Nature Photos - Eastern Bluebirds Carolyn Felder https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443571078-6Y24AHENO823DKODH1HG/redfoxkitbluebirdhouseSusanHalehusbandtookphotoJune2009.jpg Nature Photos - Red Fox Kit shared by Susan Hale (photo by husband) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443579805-GDXTYAJYTZOAQCZDK7J3/grasshopperonwindshieldlasfallJackieJeffersmcMurrayPA.jpg Nature Photos - Grasshopper on Windshield Jackie Jeffers, McMurray, Pa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443588014-42KMF7IYSRV69UWGP9OV/heronsgreatblueDaveBrooke2.jpg Nature Photos - Great Blue Herons Dave Brooke, near Pittsburgh, Pa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443608600-X6B6DL5TX8JW4S23GQ09/herongreatblueDaveBrookeislandmiddleofAlleghenyriverjustnorthofPittsburgh.jpg Nature Photos - Great Blue Herons Dave Brooke, near Pittsburgh, Pa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443623529-J9G21RQYLG1AJ28HMRIA/redtailedhawkKenRohling1.jpg Nature Photos - Leucistic Red-Tailed Hawk Ken Rohling, upstate New York https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443632252-EYZJ2ZDFAB0XLCH85Z19/snailLucyJonesrestingonhike.jpg Nature Photos - Snail Lucy Jones https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443642659-4TH7V1XDA1BZ7I15R8LD/yellowbelliedsapsuckerrescueBobOsborn.jpg Nature Photos - Rescued Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker Bob Osborn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443653490-26MQIFHBVE4AK5T04VP7/robinandwormPoulSandersonWisconsin.jpg Nature Photos - Robin and Worm Poul Sanderson, Wisconsin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443662480-XIJABYTMCGJHVTKPWRWD/robinalbinoSeanNicolasUrbanekLincolnNE.jpg Nature Photos - Albino Robin Sean Nicolas Urbanek, Lincoln, Nebr. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443677303-KFTK5MLZOS97THCWIRAY/browncreeperGarySuidikas.jpg Nature Photos - Brown Creeper Gary Suidikas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443689173-X6IWCL0DE4OH0WRE0YGT/baltimoreorioleLeahCrystalKlehnFortDrumNY.jpg Nature Photos - Baltimore Oriole Leah Crystal Klehn, Fort Drum, N.Y. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443700039-LB55GHLUT2J1929SAM9X/swanCindyGurmannLongIslandSound.jpg Nature Photos - Swan Cindy Gurmann, Long Island Sound, N.Y. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443725376-5Y7AOZ8GR1X16GV1DGQG/bluebirdonpostGaryEaglehuntercreektrailheadRenoNV.jpg Nature Photos - Bluebird Gary Eagle, Reno, Nevada https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443734242-53MDGGHKVNLIVWHF7485/burrowingowlsFrankGarcianestinoneofbusiestsportscomplexinBrowardCountyFL.jpg Nature Photos - Burrowing Owls Frank Garcia, Broward County, Fla. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443742628-VK7NCUGSBQHTP4J88VMF/egretsMichelleMiklik.jpg Nature Photos - Egrets Michelle Miklik, Alabama https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443754261-CZ0OYQNGLZKX9UD81I9A/greenheronRyanPerdziak1.jpg Nature Photos - Green Heron Ryan Perdziak, Upstate New York https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443766032-C8LNJ80WVHMKL6KURM7Y/raccoonalbinoTaraHunt.jpg Nature Photos - Albino Raccoon Tara Hunt, Michigan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443773766-LR9ZAB1YAFTZKZP29S4H/snowyowl1BillyCliffordtraveled5000milestosharetheirbeautywithusinNE.jpg Nature Photos - Snowy Owl Billy Clifford, New Hampshire https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443788755-J4JL30TQSMZWBV1EPSQN/europeanpeacockbutterflyJulianJacksonGermanAlps.jpg Nature Photos - European Peacock Butterfly Julian Jackson, German Alps https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443800536-7EMXG6FI7V2PWJRYP430/baldeagleBillABuzzellMD.jpg Nature Photos - Bald Eagle Bill A. Buzzell, Maryland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443810350-2NQQUSAIUKUHRNKBJOWY/roughskinnednewtLisaPhillipsPenninsulaWA.jpg Nature Photos - Rough-Skinned Newt Lisa Phillips, Washington state https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443821516-UI3OLIO2XH5B904GAF6R/northernharrierDavidHeaphy.jpg Nature Photos - Northern Harrier David Heaphy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443833692-TV4WDVET1UU5WR25NEWL/baldeaglesjustlaideggDaveBRookeHarmarPA.jpg Nature Photos - Bald Eagles Dave Brooke, Harmar, Pa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443846420-42HYPX9FTRAUBT59RW30/raccoonjuvenilecameacrossonhikeAmbrosiaSandersBoerneTX.jpg Nature Photos - Juvenile Raccoon Ambrosia Sanders, Boerne, Texas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487443854968-CBMZ9KLOLETIKEPOE5SU/squirrelSherryIngramDuLong.jpg Nature 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Hare Erick Swanson, Maine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487444046932-6LHEJOAOKC5K1C5UO9II/nighthawkcamouflagePatNelson.jpg Nature Photos - Nighthawk, Camouflaged Pat Nelson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487444058495-7150JLADGT8Q8N9QEEY2/wrenchicksinboxMargaretLewisatMAaudubonBelmontMA.jpg Nature Photos - Wren Chicks Margaret Lewis, Mass Audubon, Belmont, Mass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487444067152-A54WRB480HPYGMUP4RL7/wrenbabyRaeDallasRoynearJewettCityCT.jpg Nature Photos - Wren Chick Rae Dallas Roy, Jewett City, Conn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487444081622-86S4GGTRXET4DHA1XY1U/wrenlastbabytoleavenestonportchGinaDurhamBallardMiddleTN.jpg Nature Photos - Wren Chick Gina Durham Ballard, middle Tennessee 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- Pamelia's Mom Making NN Rugs... ...with our late dog Wooster. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1464961121561-MYZDIGRJ713HD8FT3QJX/patannepamrug1.jpg 2009: The NN Launches! - Anne, Pat and Pamelia's Mom... ...preparing to tear fabric into rug-braiding strips. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1464961133369-6JCCVJ386JBHKJNFH6XR/patanneruntear1.jpg 2009: The NN Launches! - Pat and Anne Tearing Fabric Strips... ...to make braided rugs for the Notebook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1464965185999-N188S1VQ9IJCYS1TC4D5/rugoils.jpg 2009: The NN Launches! - Rug-making coils https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1464968535480-KDTMNT9QRHDJ3EQL253V/rugmakingJeanHenry.jpg 2009: The NN Launches! - Craig's Mom and Dad... ...inspired and helped with our rug-making. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1464968412402-E794FJWVUXQ27ZZ7FXY4/rugmakinglindapameliachandlersarah.jpg 2009: The NN Launches! - Friends Helping... ...Pamelia (left) with our friends Linda (who was dying of cancer), Linda's daughter Sarah and boyfriend Chandler https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1464961156409-XUJ8DXRK4HCNCOYD0ZPV/tomlawrencewindows1.jpg 2009: The NN Launches! - Friendly neighbor Tom Lawrence... ...voluntarily washing our windows before our pre-season kids' art show. We were overwhelmed by his kindness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1464961223245-ZLOCJX9X065JF3IAQRYW/goatanne1.jpg 2009: The NN Launches! - Anne With Mini the Baby Goat... ...which we almost adopted as a Notebook mascot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1464963901837-FSVRJXP4EBNHIKA4E1SL/Museumresearch.jpg 2009: The NN Launches! - Field Research for Installations... ...in this case Pamelia at the Museum of Natural History in New York. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1464963964337-5IVC1J7NWD43WFFA8ZGF/craigmoon.jpg 2009: The NN Launches! - Craig Testing Our Glowing Moon.... ...for a lunar installation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1464964020218-XZ7CIANM2FXVRGYJOTS5/hats.jpg 2009: The NN Launches! - Anne and Pat's NN Knitted Hats.... ...on which they worked for weeks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1464964076392-R06GUEWIRFFT8HCKDIJZ/headstands.jpg 2009: The NN Launches! - Headstand Break... ...for Pamelia and Anne. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1464964126275-O9DAHT888DY3TBX9LTJ4/kidsartshowsetup.jpg 2009: The NN Launches! - Kids' Art Show Setup... ...a few weeks before we officially opened the Notebook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1464964193165-F8TO4CS9Z43U9ULW8AN6/kidsartshowcraig.jpg 2009: The NN Launches! - Craig's Hanging a Kid-Painted Mural... ...for the school art show at the NN. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1464964304331-H24ZOZTDZVU5RR6WDHN0/renovationcontinues.jpg 2009: The NN Launches! - Renovations Continue.... ...up to and beyond our opening day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1464964357025-RL2JVERNBJB5XXH68DNZ/renovationpamelia.jpg 2009: The NN Launches! - Pamelia Checks Out... ...the renovation upstairs at the Notebook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1464965833517-A6Z9E9Y5ZJPEE3T1RVGP/woosterdriving.jpg 2009: The NN Launches! - Wooster Driving Us... ...to the Notebook to work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1464965941399-F1L8V50GU33RW31XYIKE/pamvorislastdays.jpg 2009: The NN Launches! - Constantly caregiving for Pamelia's Mom... ...at our house until she died from her cancer in September and we ended our season. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1464966188169-7MO64B0LC04E09VPC5R5/pamhedda.jpg 2009: The NN Launches! - Mary Pamelia Richardson Markwood Voris (1925-2009) Thank you, Mom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1465644105956-34T3ZSFL0223BPCB78UT/welcome+sign+Naturalist%27s+Notebook 2009: The NN Launches! https://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/2010-primate-adventures daily 0.75 2018-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1492007194873-XNB2PVBAYHSF7JILNBSB/naturalistsnotebook 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More Our 2010 primate room upstairs included a portrait gallery of extinct human species, tributes to Jane Goodall and the Leakey family, and casts of both a human skeleton and a bonobo skeleton (our closely related species have 99 percent the same DNA). Most visitors loved learning more about humans' deep ancestry, though some Notebook visitors separated the hands of the two skeletons, possibly disturbed by the reality that we are related to other primates. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487440580847-L740L7O9PBQ3A1CJSE7K/2010+floor+plan 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1492005407266-UU0LVBJXOCEQC5E5VC5T/JohnBurrilNotebookPainting.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More - Seal Harbor Notebook Painting by John Burrill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1492005452230-QJNO3Z2FA5LO310JN8X9/*2010SH1stflrplan16+copy+2.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487436857287-I3DH484WPPS0UO0PLRUR/oceanroom2010g.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More - Ocean Room 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487436882295-Z86EOMXCXKHAUFLV5RXH/fishmap2010a.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487436932536-TCWBSB3R7DPDWYU7XOQW/gull2010c.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487436954744-RYCD6LFL2ZOYG8BWQKRO/interiorview2010e.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487436983323-CKOGHU9T58OH7Y4S78KB/lowtidecorner2010b.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487437006810-62HU74NK874V3W9CZP9W/kimrogersjewelry2010.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More - Ocean-Inspired Jewelry Made by Kim Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487437033161-YGICDS2YRK00J389FKET/frontroom2010.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487437056191-FYE8CVDBDOYFBGYDURXE/fishflags2010a.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More - Kids' Fish Flags To raise money for Mt. Desert Elementary School https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487437077848-CD741CBS3G1YMGJ8YLCJ/puzzlesclement22010.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More - Puzzle Solver https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487437096325-XNOZ96CEUILE2CR9DNCS/ralphfahringer2010a.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More - Polar Photographer Ralph Fahringer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487437118770-4IRVTFPRCD5NKECFEPL9/arcticantarctic.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487437138591-AP5N8Q71PN70YR7XIW0U/hatscarf2010.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487437160580-K93ISLQL501BDLAH1A45/photoshoot2010b.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More - Feature Coverage Pamelia Markwood and Craig Neff (and Wooster) with photographer John Clarke Russ of the Bangor Daily News. Story here: http://bangordailynews.com/2010/06/20/living/taking-note-of-nature/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487437184481-87GRJHLN3FC3Y2R76WL0/bangordailynews.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More - We Made the List https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487437204547-XAIR7OBKA67F3355Y1UQ/microscope2010.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More - Microscope Study https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487437226848-T5CE94SEBSEO3KAHIUKN/maphubble2010.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487437252509-90NJTFS4N8U0HJ8ZTSTB/annewoodmanjewely2010.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More - Nature-Inspired Jewelry Made by Anne Woodman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487437281354-HCQQWMWLPNYRHXYIWYX7/populationchalkboard2010.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More - Crowded World Human population will hit 11 billion in this century. Scary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487437303618-V8E9DEGUSAGXJ4Z11EWC/population2010b.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487437326407-FUF4REB6RJBRV7XUIZ9R/shoppingscene2010b.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487437350562-88F1VAX3R73YTGZ268UW/jowillbetsyroccopiece.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More - Multimedia Art Made by Rocco Alberico. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487437372274-KSSAFKHURHV21CZWIOJM/visitors2010ss.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More - Milky Way Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487437393976-29WGDCWN1EY3R0SP98I4/visitors2010dd.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487437410279-YYNMHQ6C6QRNZGJMGW5M/visitors2010p.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487437429153-UHBEVE3RSNRN3TFRY7J7/interiorview2010d.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487437451519-51DOV83OEM6TOALM1EGD/visitorspedro2010.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487437472616-5M6NA0BECYWXM0GQIOYR/acadiamap.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487437504942-VHTU5MPBRMBNFFBAZ9E8/notebookshoppingbag1.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487437532121-FS42ESB77JT0YVDN50C5/sarahwineburg2010b.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487437550640-7YUFUK1TZ7ESPGVI42I1/birdfriendlycoffee2010b.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More - Bird-Friendly Coffee Saves crucial forest habitat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487437573084-OPPIBGQ5B3A87PK78J9B/honeytasting2010a.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487437594836-GZ9NGGGUFIFOP672IORP/geocachenatsmith2010c.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More - Geocaching Lessons From Nat Smith. We hid a geocache box outside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487437613879-63ZDA90MHNE6AKR8DITZ/globe2010a.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More - Levitating Globe Amazing, no? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487437640972-WF9IM1SBIKBFJIOY6BTP/beeroom2010.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More - Farm Room https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487437659195-A4B1JS2A70DSOQJQ1WHW/jam2010b.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More - Think Local We've always worked with Maine artisans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487437678811-MN3PNDGLDKMK1YH40N7S/syrup2010c.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487437696908-A6QG6A7L3UE1KQKMWDCM/scarves2010.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487437721793-VQC8JMI1TKY9J69HFTXR/soap2010.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487437745134-U03G0HCEF6VWXQ8AE8NY/10NNf2ndFloorPln16+.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487437765272-PGLBM379WKQUAPX7FC5F/greetingcards2010a.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More - Next Stop: Upstairs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e4f02fe4b0894d28b43247/1487437789206-QVYQNP696EKZ1RTAYXJD/eowilsontreeoflife2010b.jpg 2010: Primates, Population, Oceans and More - Tree of Life And one of our heroes, E.O. 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