Dog truth
/Pine Point Beach, Maine (click to enlarge)
(I didn't really say it out loud.)
Pine Point Beach, Maine (click to enlarge)
(I didn't really say it out loud.)
In New England, winter is for gull-watching. I stood on Jodrey State Fish Pier in the fog and drizzle of a late Friday morning in January, inside a roiling cloud of gray and white birds. A stocky fisherman in orange foul-weather gear had just thrown a bucketful of...
Read More...a chicken farmer named Swampy Marsh is using sheepdogs to protect Little Penguins from foxes.
Little Penguin
View from Koh Wai, a little island in southeastern Thailand. I came here on a brightly painted wooden boat from Koh Chang (whose jagged hills are the ones looming mistily on the horizon).
Reward: $12,250
You'd think that when someone steals your homing pigeon, you could just wait a few days.
Abby McBride
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Top photo credit: Otto Whitehead