by don | May 4, 2013
The blue-headed vireo sang to me of spring sometime around the first week of April. Blue-headeds are generally the last “non-resident” songbird we hear in the fall (sometimes into November) and the first we hear in the spring – probably due to the fact that many...
by don | Apr 11, 2013
Love may be a little anthropogenic for toads but the eons old “urge to merge” was quite prevalent last Sunday (4/7) when we were at Oconee State Park. Oconee State Park, in Mountain Rest, Sc., is along U.S. Hwy 11 around 14 miles south of Cashiers, Nc. and about an...
by don | Mar 29, 2013
Wild South held its Fifth Annual Green Gala, celebrating the 2012 Roosevelt-Ashe Society’s Conservation Award winners, last Friday March 22. Wild South is a regional nonprofit with offices in Asheville, Nc. and Moulton, Ala. that works to protect, conserve and enhance...
by don | Mar 20, 2013
I have seen the light and I don’t like it. I have seen the light emanating from strip malls; from sports stadiums; from urban skylines; from cul-de-sacs; from factories; from almost any place twilight finds Homo sapiens and I don’t like it. I don’t like it because I...
by don | Mar 9, 2013
I know, I know, we’ve been in Louisiana for two weeks now, but when I look back at some of the photos and think of our trip I see a lot in common between public lands there and public lands here. Because of a lot of political demagoguing and hypocritical...
by don | Mar 2, 2013
What better place to start part deaux than Breaux Bridge along Bayou Teche? Firmin Breaux originally purchased the area that is now Breaux Bridge in 1771, from New Orleans” businessman Jean Francois Ledée who had acquired the land as an original French land grant....
by don | Mar 2, 2013
Translation — Great Backyard Bird Count at Black Bayou Lake National Wildlife Refuge; the tradition continues. Since a spur-of-the-moment GBBC at Black Bayou with my brother back in 2006, I have only missed two years of counting in Louisiana. It’s a great excuse to...
by don | Feb 15, 2013
Of course, you’re no longer confined to your backyard like you were back in 1997 when the Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) launched. Sixteen years later and the GBBC is going global. Anyone around the world with Internet access can participate. The basic count format...
by don | Feb 7, 2013
What happens when you finally get to the end of the rainbow and there’s no gold in the pot? Perusing the Smoky Mountain News the other day, I ran across Becky Johnson’s piece about the $52 million dollar cash settlement, an agreement supposedly signed, sealed and...
by don | Feb 1, 2013
Limeade, tequila and cointreau is not a wintry mix – that is a margarita; something you may resort to when a wintry mix turns your driveway into a sheet of ice. The ingredients for a wintry mix are a combination of two or more of these types of frozen/freezing...
