Happy Earth Day 2020

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day. It’s worth acknowledging all the positive changes that have been enacted over the last 50 years – the enacting the Clean Water Act and the Clean Air Act, endangered species like the bald eagle have rebounded from the brink of extinction, rivers are no longer on fire and don’t run the color of whatever the upstream dye factory happens to be producing on a given day, and renewable energy options…

American Woodcock (Scolopax minor)

March 4, 2019 Elise

Although Saturday’s weather forced the rescheduling of the Upper Cape Naturalists Club’s winter bird walk, I ended up getting antsy prior to the end of the snow storm and decided to head out for a walk anyway. Tucking my binoculars inside my jacket to shield them from the majority of the wet snow that continued to fall, I set off down the Sagamore Hill trail at Scusset Beach State Reservation. On the edge of the trail, motionless in the grass,…

Seashore to Forest Floor

A naturalist's journey across Cape Cod and beyond

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