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Hugh Rose, February 22, 1947 - January 11, 2021
Many of my friends will have fond memories of Hugh Rose, and scores of birders met Hugh (and his wife Judy) at birding events, somewhere in the field, or during his time working as manager of the Black...
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Gray squirrel and its unusual drey a source of enjoyment
Unusual gray squirrel drey on Martha McCormac's balcony/Jim McCormacGray squirrel and its unusual drey a source of enjoymentColumbus DispatchJanuary 17, 2021NATUREJim McCormacIf we had a keen vision...
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Black velvet botanical photography
I gave an online Zoom presentation last Tuesday to a group of garden clubs, the event organized by the Garden Club of Cleveland. The subject was botanical photography, and on a larger scale,...
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Nature: Summer tanager in Ohio's winter? Yes, it's true
A male summer tanager, a most unexpected winter visitor in Franklin County, Ohio/Jim McCormacNature: Summer tanager in Ohio's winter? Yes, it's trueColumbus DispatchJanuary 31, 2021NATUREJim...
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Winter Pine Warbler
This Pine Warbler has spent the winter, thus far, at Green Lawn Cemetery on the south side of Columbus, Ohio. As fate would have it, I had a meeting only ten minutes from there yesterday, and stopped...
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Nature: Ornithologist seeks input for his Central Ohio Owl Project
A barn owl dozes on a barn's hay rail in southern Ohio/Jim McCormacNature: Ornithologist seeks input for his Central Ohio Owl ProjectColumbus DispatchFebruary 7, 2021NATUREJim McCormacIn the bird...
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Snowy Owl snow-bathing, Short-eared Owls roosting
As always, click the photo to enlargeI sorely needed a field foray yesterday. However, the weather was not overly alluring. Temperatures were in the low teens when I set out, skies were gray, and a...
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Redpolls and more: The amazing Soltis Road sunflower field
A roughly ten acre patch of Common Sunflowers (Helianthus annuus) stretches into the distance. It's planted there courtesy of Soltis Farms. Some of their buildings can be see in the distance. The...
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Nature: Lapland longspurs, native to the tundra, more frequent in Ohio
A male Lapland longspur stays alert on a recent snowy, frigid morning in Franklin County/Jim McCormacNature: Lapland longspurs, native to the tundra, more frequent in OhioColumbus DispatchFebruary 21,...
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Moon on a sunny day, with gulls - and THANKS for reading this blog!
Cleveland, Ohio, last Saturday. As always, click the pic to enlarge.Today, my blog passed five million page views. While that's chump change in the world of truly high-traffic websites, it's...
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Nocturnal photography presentation: Monday night, March 1, 7 pm.
A Yellow-based Tussock Moth, Dasychira basiflava, stares into the photographer's lens in the wee hours of darkness.If anyone would like a photographic diversion tomorrow evening, I am giving a Zoom...
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Canvasback, a fine botanical duck
A handsome drake Canvasback loafs in frigid Lake Erie waters, off Miller Road Park in the city of Avon Lake, Ohio. I was there bright on and early on the morning of February 20. I recall the...
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Canvasback addendum
I caught this trio of drake Canvasbacks in flight, at the same place and date as in the previous post. The shot came out okay, and as shooting flying fowl is more challenging than floating fowl, I...
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Red-winged Blackbirds speak of spring
I was out in the marshes of Battelle Darby Metro Park (Franklin County, Ohio) at dawn yesterday. My main targets were waterfowl in flight - one of my favorite photographic subjects. Fowl were scarce,...
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A nice salamander run
A Spotted Salamander stares, seemingly curiously, at the photographer. The annual spring runs of salamanders is a phenomenon that is one of nature's great spectacles, and eagerly awaited by many...
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The 16th Ohio Botanical Symposium takes place on Friday, March 26, and all are welcome. It's via Zoom - as so many events are over the past year. The best part about this is it's free, and WAY more...
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More amphibians, including the spectacular Tiger Salamander
An American Toad sits on a damp road. Fortunately most of the roads that I cruised this evening have nearly no traffic on them at night, so amphibian mortality is low. That's certainly not the case...
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Nature: Tracing birds' lifespans is not an easy undertaking
This nearly 29-year-old ring-billed gull, photographed January 9 in Cleveland, is the oldest known of its kind in North America./Chuck SlusarczykNature: Tracing Birds' lifespans is not an easy...
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The spring wildflower show commences
Yesterday morning's moonset over Adams County, Ohio. I was on the road plenty early enough to see the big ball of cheese make a spectacle of itself, then slip below the horizon.Astrophotography was...
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Northern Michigan foray: May 20-23
Lake Nettie, a beautiful glacial lake in northern Michigan. Not a bad view first thing in the morning.For the past decade, I've led trips in Presque Isle County, Michigan, based out of NettieBay Lodge....
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