Recently in the Birding Category
“Audubon’s Guidebook to New England soon helped me figure out the plant was bladder campion. Since that initial identification a dozen years ago, this flower has caught my eye everywhere in Maine, particularly on the edges of gravel roads in the north country. In short, one day it did not exist in my life, and forever after I have seen it far and wide.” Ken Allen says guidebooks aid the joy of discovery like almost no other piece of equipment. In Maine’s Kennebec Journal.
On Canada.com, Gary May travels to a rainforest lodge on Golfo Dulce on Costa Rica’s south west coast and finds himself literally living among the animals on the border of Piedras Blancas National Park. “No longer are the distinctive, ghostly roars of the howler monkeys coming from deep in the rainforest, they are right outside our cabin. We lie in bed, beneath our bug net, grateful we’d decided to pull the louvred doors closed the night before, after awakening that day to small animal droppings strewn across our floor.”