October 26, 2026
Monday Morning Mystery
Yesterday morning, top Celery Farm Nature Preserve birder Julie McCall saw an unusual-looking hawk over the Green Way fields. Although…
I have been working with photographer Kevin Watson on Hawk Mountain, a coffee-table book
to commemorate the sanctuary’s
75th anniversary, and I have been heading over there fairly regularly.
In the process, I have become addicted to the sanctuary’s native plant garden, which is in its prime time each summer.
It is abounding with frogs, turtles, dragonflies and damselflies, butterflies, beautiful flowers and — though tough to photograph — tranquility.
More on Hawk Mountain here.
More on the book and 2009 Hawk Mountain calendar here.