Category: Wanderings Through Nature

After a long day of canoeing the Oak Orchard Creek in Alabama, NY we got back to Beaver Meadow to find out we missed a phone call on an injured owl.  The message said a grey and white large owl.  My initial thought was a barred owl.  So I called…

I remember when I was young; I lived behind a town park where my friend and I spent most of our time. It seemed like the only time we were indoors is when our parents called us in out of the rain. No matter the weather, we were outside exploring…

I’m pretty certain that this is not the longest winter we have ever experienced in Western New York, but for some reason it seems like it is. Maybe it’s the age thing again. As I get older I like the summers better. Maybe it was a more extreme winter weather…

As I enter school 84 I look forward to my lesson in nature.  Not the lesson that I will be teaching as much as the lesson I will be learning from young Paul.  You see, Paul is the one that taught me that a snake feels like a basketball.  He…

I normally hate surprises.  I like to know what’s coming ahead of time so that I am prepared for it.  Nature however will sometimes offer me surprises that I don’t mind, like the one I was privileged to witness this morning below my bird feeders. As I awoke this morning…

How do you break up the boredom of a mundane day at the office?  Watch a little red squirrel gather food in the winter.  While stranded in the office today, catching up on paperwork and computer duties, wishing I could be outside on a pair of snowshoes, I glanced out…

The first snowfall of the season arrived the other day with mixed emotions.  The “adult” in me was not happy in the least since my plow truck was still in the shop and I spent a good portion of my morning shoveling the foot deep snow out of my driveway. …

Naturalists seem to wander a path that is a bit swayed from the norm.  Of course that depends upon what is considered the norm.  Who is it that decides what “normal” truly is.  Maybe the Naturalist is normal and the rest of the world is a bit off beat.  The…