Like Rodney Dangerfield, gulls don’t get the respect they deserve. We look at them, yet we rarely see them. We often regard them as lowly scavengers, and all too common ones at that.

I’m as guilty as the next person, but I’ve recently taken a fresh look. Like all scavengers, they [...]

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My neighbors, Becca Kaufmann and Robert Hendrick, saw two Bald Eagles cavorting over Hardy Pond today, January 29th, at about 12:45 pm. Robert took photos of the great birds, and kindly shared them with us. Click on the one, above, to see his entire series. Photo by Robert Hendrick.

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It flew in from the north swiftly, through the trees, pitching and rolling ever so slightly as if feeling its way through the tangle, alighting finally atop an old willow, high above my head.

It was 7:00 in the morning, and the outdoor thermometer read 18°F. I was hauling out the trash, a chore [...]

You don’t read much about them. They don’t make the headlines. They don’t run for public office, or get caught in financial scandals. Perhaps we humans take them for granted because they’re so familiar. Of course, I’m talking about the Mallard duck, a true cosmopolitan, spectacularly successful in sharing habitats with human beings around the [...]