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The Natural World The natural world is there for all of us to see. Photography is a tool that has allowed me to examine many of its facets in far more detail that I otherwise could. With birds, the chance to preserve the moment, to look at the details, even after the bird has disappeared into the trees or shrubs. With smaller creatures, we can see details that otherwise elude us: too small, too rapidly occurring. And the more one looks, the more one can see. I hope that the images captured in this web site, and some of those that to me are most interesting, will inspire you to look at all that is going on around us all the time. Crab spider catching and killing a bumblebee
November 06, 2013
Crab spiders are quite common around here: Although I grew up thinking about spiders as spinning webs, catching prey in their web, the crab spiders behavior is different.
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Banding northern saw-whet owls
October 31, 2013
On October 30, Benita and I went to the Drumlin Farm Massachusetts Audubon facility, where they band migratory northern saw-whet owls during the fall migration. The volun...
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Metamorphosis of an Orthopteran (Katydid)
September 25, 2013
I was not planning on doing insect macro photography after work today. After work I went out on the back deck, to water plants and enjoy what daylight we still have as we...
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Tufted coquette (Trochilidae Lophornis ornata): Trinidad
February 18, 2013
At the end of January, beginning of February, we visited Trinidad and Tobago for a week. During this time, we spent four days at the Asa Wright nature center in the rain...
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Blizzard of 2013: Many facets of Nature
February 10, 2013
On February 8 and 9th, we had a major blizzard. I guess Canton was slightly spared compared with some of the neighboring communities. Nonetheless, we had approximately tw...
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