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Winter Snap
Yesterday morning, Sylvan Water, the largest of Green-Wood’s ponds, was frozen over. Fantastic thrumming and booming came from the ice, sounding as if submarines, dolphins, and Red-bellied Woodpeckers were down under there. Sound does amazing things through ice. A few weeks earlier, when there was somewhat less ice on the pond, I saw one of…
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Overwintering II
Year-round range for this species nudges up through Delaware, which is why these birds are often the first migrants we see in spring here in New York. They don’t have far to go. The last several winters here have seen the occasional stray hang around.
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Orwell’s Roses
“It is only very rarely, when I make a definitive mental effort, that I connect this coal with that far-off labour in the mines,” wrote George Orwell of shoveling coal into the fire to keep warm in London. He wrote this The Road to Wigan Pier, his reporting on the horrific condition in northern England’s…
Backyard and Beyond 