Field Notes

Squirrel Tracks

They are actually there, I promise.

A fox? A lynx? A coyote?

I did not know what this was, but upon further inspection it looks like a four-legged critter whose front and back limbs meet on the same side.

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Here’s a weird piece of deer that I came across.

Episode 2: Survival

               It was exactly 32 degrees out on the day that I returned to Centennial Woods. I was seriously bundled up, with Stayin’ Alive by the Bee Gees powering me through the walk up to the entrance. I entered and again descended the icy backs. Psycho by Post Malone was playing at this point. It’s […]

Labeled Twig Diagram

Exciting Pictures from an Exciting Visit

January: Endurance

David Battit Phenology Blog             Don’t get me wrong, the Salmon Hole is great. I took a walk there to go fishing on my birthday back in September and caught a decent smallmouth bass. The ecosystem is wonderful, and I saw loads of fish. The mammals and other wildlife on the land are scarce though, […]

Sense of Place in my Hometown

East Hampton Connecticut is a small rural town with about 13,000 people. It is home to the second largest natural lake in CT, Lake Pocatapaug. As the towns population has grown, more and more people have moved into houses around the lake, crowding the waterfront to the extent that there is very little natural shoreline […]

Photos from the Arctic Blast