Monthly Archives: December 2016

Signs of Winter 5: Remembering a Summer Hike (part 2)

We return to our parking spot the next day and keep on our return arc back toward Freeport Road. The yellow blazes for the trail are fresh and numerous and  lead us across the lower park road and down a … Continue reading

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Signs of Winter 4: Remembering a Summer Hike (part 1)

(I have been saving these next two posts for the winter. Let’s all enjoy the color green for a while!) The Rachael Carson Trail starts as a straight uphill climb from Freeport Road on the north edge of Harrison Hills … Continue reading

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Signs of Winter 3: More Winter Birds

(some of this information was first published in a January 15, 2014 blog) Every morning right after taking Izzy for her walk and well before my first cup of coffee I go out to fill my front yard bird feeders. … Continue reading

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Signs of Winter 2: Super (and not so super) Moons

In mid-November our full moon was a “supermoon.” The moon was closer to the Earth than it had been in 70 years, and the truly unexpected feature of this November, 2016 full moon was that we actually see it! Cloudy … Continue reading

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Signs of Winter 1: New (and Continuing) Birds

  I have been watching my bird feeders for the “birds of winter!” The first of these seasonal arrivals was on Saturday, October 29 (and looking back at my notebooks from previous years, this species always shows up in Apollo … Continue reading

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