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Backgrounder: Where Are the Snow Geese?
Note: This is the 2015 edition of an annual post. FOR MORE THAN THREE DECADES, as autumn leaves blazed and swirled across Vermont, an annual rite of fall was the Champlain Valley “snowstorm.” Snow...
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Get Goosed This Weekend
IF YOU HAVEN’T YET SEEN THE SNOWS OF AUTUMN, this weekend should be good for getting goosed. In the December warmth, thousands of Snow Geese continue to flock and fly at Dead Creek Wildlife Management...
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Going Wild This Thursday in Thetford
Meet me at Thetford Academy this Thursday, April 14, at 7PM to explore the frontiers of the American backyard. With images like this one, I’ll offer practical advice for creating wildlife habitat in...
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Got Geese?
Now that Snow Geese are returning to Vermont and New York, track the migration with my 2016 Snow Goose Scoop. It’s one-stop shopping for the great white goose show.
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A Poem for April
Here in Montpelier this morning we’ve got snow and poetry. Poem City begins today. Wherever you wander downtown, whether you’re shoveling or shopping or socializing, you shall not be far from poetry....
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A Eulogy for Coffee Corner
Last Breakfast at Coffee Corner / © Bryan Pfeiffer NO DINER IS WORTH THE SALT IN ITS SHAKERS unless it includes a bunch of old guys who meet each morning to read the paper, drink coffee, eat eggs, and...
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Getting Goosed This Autumn
IN THE WIDE OPEN spaces of the Champlain Valley, and bathed in the angled light of autumn, I suggest that you get goosed. Snow Goosed. The white geese are passing through Vermont and New York — in...
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Snowy Owls Arrive
Snowy Owl in East Montpelier in April of 2014 / © Bryan Pfeiffer AS I HAD PREDICTED on Friday (in my Snowy Owl Alert), the Arctic came visiting this past weekend. Snowy Owls turned up in good numbers...
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Getting Gulls – My Presentation in Montpelier on December 21
Getting Gulls: A Workshop and Virtual Field Trip December 21, 2017 / North Branch Nature Center / 713 Elm Street, Montpelier, Vermont 7-8PM (with an optional extra hour for advanced gull...
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Life Expressed in Flight, Poetry and Music
Silver-bordered Fritillary (Boloria selene) on Blue Flag Iris (Iris versicolor) / © Bryan Pfeiffer At long last, we here in the north shall launch into spring next week. I’ll celebrate with two events....
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