A couple years ago, on one of my first moss walks, the leader pointed out a moss and said it…
There are a couple of reasons why I’m going to discuss the comedy of errors surrounding my identification of this…
I had to find this lichen 3 times before getting a positive identification on it. The first time I found…
This is a very common moss in the forests of our region, and a fairly recognizable one, once you’ve identified…
For my first post about the fascinating family Meloidae (blister beetles) I am profiling Nemognatha lutea, a relatively common denizen…
When many of us think of thistles we do so with less than charitable thoughts, because most of the thistles…
Buffleheads are small ducks (in fact they are the smallest sea duck in North America), although the bold, black and…
Golden-mantled Ground Squirrels are not rare, but it was only a couple of years ago that I photographed and identified…
I spent a good chunk of yesterday unsuccessfully trying to identify a moss I had thought would be relatively easy.…
Since I’m hanging out indoors today while snow falls steadily, covering every exposed horizontal surface, I thought I’d look back…