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Tag Archives: hermit thrush
The Hemlock Grove
Preparing for a long road trip into western places where I like to believe that a fly-fishing spirit can really soar at times like this, it’s good to remind myself that one needn’t go far in order to find a … Continue reading
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Tagged birding, hemlocks, hermit thrush, In the Hemlocks, John Burroughs, naturalist, nature, poetry, solitude, song, Spirit, travel, writing
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Close Encounters
1. The upper Genesee is my home river, and it had not been fishing well through a period of heavy rains. This morning, however, it was flowing normally for July, and the trout were rising for a while before the … Continue reading
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Tagged alien, bear encounters, close encounters, dwarf planet, explorer, fly-fishing, Genesee River, hermit thrush, hiking, John Burroughs, nature, new horizons, pluto, plutoid effect, song
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Wild Neighborhood
Beavers have moved into the neighborhood. Although increasingly common on many eastern waterways, the great rodents haven’t been seen much on the stream near our house, until recently. As I once reported here, on Brook Trout and Beaver Dams, the … Continue reading
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Tagged beaver dams, beavers, brook trout, hermit thrush, home, home-keeping, stream dynamics, web of life
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Rivertop Rambles 