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Orchids!!
A gorgeous Phalaenopsis orchid on display in the Cleveland Botanical Garden. It was one of several thousand orchids that currently adorn the sprawling facility. The annual Orchid Mania show is a great...
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A pair of dashing cardinals, and Albert the white-headed jay, in snow
Yesterday dawned cold and snowy. It was one of very few snowfalls in central Ohio this winter, and perhaps the best to date. I was stuck at home, working on a book project, but what is life without...
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Observers take a liking to lichen while hiking
From left, Shaun Pogacnik, Jim McCormac, and Tomas Curtis during a recent expedition at Conkles Hollow [Chelsea Gottfried]Observers take a liking to lichen while hikingColumbus DispatchFebruary 16,...
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A great program, short notice, but give it a shot!
I attended an interesting Ohio Environmental Professional Network breakfast meeting this morning, at Ohio State University. It featured a great presentation by Jason Ward, host of the Birds of North...
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And now for something completely different: Lambs!
I like shooting everything - weddings could be an exception - and when presented with an opportunity to photograph animals of any kind, will usually jump. A friend, Erica Burnett Thomas, raises sheep...
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The Ohio Biological Survey's annual Ohio Natural History Conference takes place Saturday, February 29, and features an interesting slate of speakers and activities. This year, the conference is in the...
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An aquatic expedition produces venomous catfish!
Well, hello again! I haven't made a post in two weeks and that's about the longest that I've gone in years. Somehow, I got myself ensnarled in a perfect storm of giving three new talks in mostly...
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First spring wildflowers!
A capacity crowd of 300 people jams the barn where the annual Amish Bird Symposium takes place near Wheat Ridge, in Adams County, Ohio. Yesterday was the 17th version, and things are not slowing down....
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An amazing snipe fly!
The fly world is almost infinite in its diversity, and teems with bizarre little characters such as this, the quadrate snipe fly, Chrysopilus quadratus. I was working with a colleague on a book project...
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American Hazelnut, in flower
Big Island Wildlife Area in Marion County, Ohio, at dawn. This is shooting westward; the sunrise was to my back. Sometimes the colors are better on the opposite side of the earth, and that was the case...
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Nature: Outing on Big Darby Creek nets fine fish find
Kelly Capuzzi holds a river redhorse in Big Darby Creek/Jim McCormacNature: Outing on Big Darby Creek nets fine fish findColumbus DispatchMarch 15, 2020NATUREJim McCormacEarly in my natural resources...
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Horned Larks commence nesting!
A calf, just dropped, gazes about its new world while mother eyes me. I visited an urban farm in the midst of Columbus last Tuesday, to see what I could see. The operation deals with cattle, and lots...
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Fallsville Falls
A series of small shelves provides aquatic punctuation to Clear Creek in Highland County. This small stream (not to be confused with the much better known Clear Creek in Hocking County - or any of the...
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Eastern Red Bat: 32 F!
Last Saturday, March 21, I headed south into Highland County. The primary target was the subject of the last post, Fallsville Falls. See that post RIGHT HERE.I have noticed that some of the more...
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A trip to the Gladys Riley Goldenstar Preserve
I ventured down to the southernmost reaches of Ohio last Thursday, to some favored old stomping grounds, and one new locale. It's the latter I write of here.Spring has sprung down there. I probably saw...
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The annual spring wildflower eruption commences!
As mentioned in the previous post, I journeyed to southern Ohio's Adams and Scioto counties last Thursday. It tuned out to be a fairly epic excursion, with many interesting finds. I even made some...
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Nature: Spring trip to southern Ohio brings finds of blooms, bats
An eastern red bat/Jim McCormacNature: Spring trip to southern Ohio brings finds of blooms, batsColumbus DispatchMarch 29, 2020NATUREJim McCormacWith the coronavirus causing major human disruption,...
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Nature: Book gives fascinating accounting of mushrooms
Nature: Book gives fascinating accounting of mushroomsColumbus DispatchMarch 5, 2020NATUREJim McCormacI suppose one benefit of the coronavirus keeping most everyone at home is the opportunity to read...
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A gallery of Bonaparte's gulls
Last Monday, I headed afield well before the crack of dawn. My destination was a wetland complex not too far to the north. I lugged my portable Doghouse blind along, with the intent of capturing some...
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Southern Ohio wildflowers
One of the rarest of Ohio's nearly 30 species of Viola, Walter's violet, Viola walteri. A tiny species of thin soil over limestone, this early bloomer is rare in Ohio, and the populations here are the...
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