July 2008

Welcome to Rhode Island!

We have made it to Rhode Island with a backlog of photos and information. We’ve been pretty busy but here is a shot of an Osprey nest at Rhode Island Audubon’s Marsh Meadows.

Notice that the Ospreys are being videotaped and there is a House Sparrow to the left that is out of [...]

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On our journey to Rhode Island, we stopped in Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Ohio before making our first night’s destination in Erie, Pennsylvania.
Cuyahoga Valley National Park is nestled along the Cuyahoga or “crooked river”, south of Cleveland and north of Akron. Despite being in a heavy populated area, Cuyahoga feels untouched and wild. We [...]

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Upon finding an eight-legged water strider we questioned whether the apparently clean stream was in fact full of radioactive runoff. Turns out, it was just a mating pair! Yes, they only have four legs each.

Birdfreak is getting ready for a trip to the east coast, specifically New York and Rhode Island. Excited level: dangerously high.

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Devil’s Lake State Park near Baraboo, Wisconsin is the most visited in the state, and may very well be the most gorgeous. The best views require a rough hike that gains large amounts of elevation in a fairly short stretch. Perhaps it isn’t the lake that is the Devil’s, but the trails.
By the time we [...]

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A draw or hollow refers to a valley or long narrow gorge between two clefts of rock. - The Nature Conservancy

In our south central Wisconsin search for the Worm-eating Warbler (and other great birds), we took a hike at Hemlock Draw Nature Preserve. Many species found here are typical of northern Wisconsin, making it a [...]

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