… has, like essentially everything else this year, from wood frog breeding to wild plum flowering, come early and immediately exploded into full activity. On 23 May I went out to the center of turtle nesting that I have looked in on, with from sporadic to intense day-by- day dedication for some three decades. This […]

In that order, DATELINE 2 May 2010: an afternoon that yielded what I refer to, in my postcard swamp dialog with Brian Butler, a “Digs Trifecta”. I decided to wade the shallower eastern margin of the Swale, just out from the winterberry (Ilex verticillata) border that runs its entire and, for a vernal pool habitat, […]