Nature Done Wright

   Diane Brown, a graceful writer and a friend of this blog, has a great new post on birding.  

     Little blue? You bet! And you would be, too, if you went halfway around Lake Appert in the

  Saw these tiny guys on a milkweed pod in the Celery Farm by Phairs Pond, late Sunday afternoon.   I

   Hawk Mountain, Pa., Native Plant Garden, Saturday a.m., on joe-pye weed, I think.

     An immature little blue heron was seen at Lake Appert Sunday morning before 8 a.m. — a few

    In the evening, earlier in the week, young barn swallows would fly a bit around Lake Appert, then

    As vultures go, this guy is pretty dang handsome.     Saw him in the Kempton Valley, Pa.,

      Not a decade goes by that someone doesn’t ask me or my friend Seymour Drakes when we are

  Was it just me, or did this great blue heron look particularly statuesque last night in the fading sunlight?