Of eiders and islands
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Dispatches from two weeks on a seabird nesting island off the coast of Maine.
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The other side of the mushroom
/Whatever catastrophe befell this birch, it allowed me to see the tops and bottoms of some polypore mushrooms at the same time. I'm sure a similar phenomenon inspired Lewis Carroll.
Scarborough, Maine
Moths go with the flow
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Silver Y moths are named for a silvery squiggle that adorns each forewing, like a handwritten y. Twice a year these moths (and a lot of songbirds) migrate over Europe while researchers track them with radar. But how do they deal with the wind?
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/Here's where I've been for the past three weeks:
Friesland, Netherlands
Whose woods?
/Somewhere in New England, c. 1922 or possibly 2014
Robert Frost thought he knew, but I have no idea. Sketched immediately after a ramble on a snowy evening, mostly from imagination (at least I didn't put it off until June).