Isn’t she beautiful 🦉 George McGavin Jake Fiennes Brigit Strawbridge Chris Packham Lussas Rare melanistic barn owl rescued from Norfolk nest where her parents had stopped feeding her

The first Red-winged Blackbird has fuzzy slippers on, made from cattail fluff.

More on the history of the Concord/Acton gunpowder mills. wickedlocal.com/story/beacon-v…

well hawkwatch didn't choose any of my owl photos for their calendar but i think my eastern screech in its perfectly owl shaped hole deserves an honorable mention

I chirped to myself, “Self.” (and I knew it was me, cause I recognized my chirp) “Today is going to be a good day!”⁣

Sept. 16, 1852. Discovered an excellent lively wild red grape. Why not propagate from it and call it the Musketaquid? [Photo George Vin]

Sept. 17, 1852. What produces this flashing air of autumn? -- a brightness as if there were not green enough to absorb the light, now that the first frosts wither the herbs. The corn-stalks are stacked like muskets along the fields. [Art by N.C. Wyeth, 1865 photo]

Aug. 30, 1854. I see brown thrashers on the black cherry tree and hear their sharp click like a squirrel.

Sept. 18, 1852. The crows congregate and pursue me through the half-covered woodland path, cawing loud and angrily above me, and when they cease, I hear the winnowing sound of their wings. What ragged ones! [Art by Dreamstime]

We scream. You scream. The rangers come. It’s awkward.

I thought they were mushrooms until one blinked 😳

A very horizontal character indeed, this green heron was stuck in a busy part of Midtown, likely drawn in by lights and then penned in by reflective walls. We suspect he also collided with a window at some point during his misadventure, based on his demeanor. 📷: Phyllis Tseng

Sept. 21, 1852. The small skull-cap and cress and the mullein still in bloom. I see pigeon woodpeckers [northern flickers] oftener now, with their light rears. Birches and elms begin to turn yellow, and ferns are quite yellow or brown in many places. [Photo Reed Andariese]

Dec. 31, 1842. I should like to keep some book of natural history always by me as a sort of elixir, the reading of which would restore the tone of my system and secure me true and cheerful views of life.