I Spy—with My Binocular Eye
The Nelson’s sparrow winters on the Delaware Bayshore after having nested in New England, or further north in Canada’s Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, along the entrance to the Saint Lawrence
The Great Outdoors
Denizens of Thompsons Beach
On a balmy late fall afternoon I decided to take a trek to one of my favorite Bayshore spots, a place imbued with history: Thompson’s Beach. After parking I exited
Some Family Lore
Each family seems to have its traditional holiday stories, and for me the quintessential tale is one my mother used to tell about her childhood on Thanksgiving Day. She was
Reader’s Treat
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Living Below Sea Level
This autumn I was fortunate to go on a tour of New Orleans, Louisiana—i.e., NOLA the “Big Easy;” the land of Chitimacha, French Creole, Cajun, and later Americans. There my
Coyote Lore—and Facts
I’ve been noodling on some Halloween themes for an October story. In past years we’ve covered the Jersey Devil, spiders, bats, and so forth, so I decided to read some
Migration on the Maurice
In South Jersey, fall is a welcomed occurrence that many associate with the changing of the foliage, apple-picking, and pumpkin spice coffee, but for a small and steadily growing section
Somethin’s Fishy
On Thursday, September 22, my husband and I discovered two large shrimp in the stern of a boat moored at our dock on the Maurice River. This prompted me to
Starless Night Skies
As a young teenager I complained to my mother that I was having trouble seeing the chalkboard in school. It took weeks of begging to get her to overcome her
Our Native Gum
It was while taking carving lessons with Vernon Smith over 30 years ago that I first became familiar with tupelo. We were carving fancy birds as opposed to smooth decoys.
