August 11, 2026
Remembering a Great Writer
This month marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of J.A. Baker, the British author who wrote “The Peregrine,” the…
Early evenings are primetime at the Warden’s Watch these days.
Not quite as hot out, and plenty of bird life — from wood duck families to kingfishers to black-crowned night herons. Dragonflies like to perch on snags this time of day.
This sandpaper — he was solitary in terms of numbers, at least, and spotted (by me) — hung out near the brush pile the other night before moving on.
Beautiful photo, full of symmetry and drama! My sick imagination tells me the log looks like a pincer-nosed sea monster about to snag the dragonfly in flight.
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Tom Burr
Beautiful photo, full of symmetry and drama! My sick imagination tells me the log looks like a pincer-nosed sea monster about to snag the dragonfly in flight.