by don | Nov 2, 2012
Finch irruptions are not that uncommon. They generally occur in some numbers, in some locations almost every year. But in some years the movements are larger and more widespread. The winter of 2012-2013 is shaping up to be one of those years. Irruptions are not...
by don | Oct 26, 2012
This morning when I had coffee on my deck I did not hear the hooded warbler that nests in the tangles in the young woods below my yard. I did not hear a northern parula singing from the tops of the tulip poplars. There was no buzzy black-throated blue song emanating...
by don | Oct 18, 2012
Waiting in the ubiquitous checkout line, I spied a National Geographic special publication, “50 of the World’s last great places – Destinations of a Lifetime.” Thumbing through, right between Bialowieza (remnants of ancient European forests on the border of Poland and...
by don | Oct 11, 2012
Or at least a younger one anyway – one of the ranking members of the House’s Committee on Science, Space and Technology, Rep. Paul Broun, (R) Georgia, told a gathering at Liberty Baptist Church in Hartwell, Ga. on Sept. 27 that the world was about 9,000 years old....
by don | Oct 5, 2012
Apparently what was apparent to many scientists and researchers back in 2008 is becoming more apparent – or not. Honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) has been raising hackles and eyebrows for the better part of the last decade. CCD, characterized by the sudden...
by don | Sep 30, 2012
Foreword The Naturalist’s Corner has been in print since 1994 when I began the weekly outdoors column for Scott McLeod, then editor at Waynesville North Carolina’s Enterprise Mountaineer. When Scott left the Enterprise Mountaineer in 1999 to start his own...
