October 27, 2026
Monday Mystery Answered
On Monday I wrote… Yesterday morning, top Celery Farm Nature Preserve birder Julie McCall saw an unusual-looking hawk over the…
OK, sometimes I am a little dense. I have been living next to the Celery Farm for more than a dozen years, and I have seen shells by the trail and at the Warden's Watch. Yet I never paid them much attention.
But on a recent walk, Barbara Brummer of The Nature Conservancy wanted to know what the above shell was. I said I didn't know…
The next time I saw her, she had found out. What did she learn?
Flip-side view follows. Part Two is next week. Oh, yeah!