Sometimes a bird is not a bird, and it’s not always easy to tell the imposters from the feathered songsters. Let’s take a little tour of some of the critters that like to sound like birds, maybe just to annoy and confuse you.
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Busy times
By Kevin Wright/Daily Ledger
Remember a recent column in which I stated that we should embrace winter, enjoy it while it is here, etc. etc. Well, I am now ready to embrace the spring. I am ready to enjoy some warmer weather.
Not only is there the weather to enjoy but so much is happening in the outdoors right now that it is very difficult to contain one’s excitement. When everything is going on at once it just makes it downright difficult to plan a day.
I am a fanatic about snow geese and (if you have not noticed), they are coming into our area in masses. It appears to be one of the better flights that we have seen in the last few years. I love the thrill of my morning chases as I try to find flocks to photograph. Of course, I could just head down to Emiquon where there is a reported 500,000 or so. It is quite a spectacle to see indeed, and I suggest you make a drive down there to see them, but I prefer to stay close to home and find geese that I can get really get c
Green and Growing: When it comes to nature writing, love your locals
Jim Sirch, Yale Peabody Museum’s education coordinator, now writes a nature blog with a hyper-local flair for our southern New England environs. Here, he releases a newly hatched black swallowtail butterfly. (photo courtesy of Jim Sirch)
Middletown garden writer Thomas Christopher poses here with a chicken from his flock. “She’s from the Sultan breed,” he said, “a very sweet and somewhat goofy breed.” (photo courtesy of Thomas Christopher)
Published January 26. 2021 7:45AM
Kathy Connolly, Special to The Times
A long time ago, I saw a tag on a teabag that read, “Calming tea for a nervous world.” I still don’t know who wrote that line, but the sentiment stayed with me.