Wild Things: What’s the least we can do at Higgs Beach?
The radar showed a dragon's tail of inclement weather dragging across the island. The rain might end soon, or the dragon's tail might keep...
Wild Things: 59 species or bust, continued
The rain only lasted an hour, maybe an hour and a half. Enough time to go home and help reassure the dog that the...
Wild Things: 59 species or bust
Summer had been officially over for nearly half a day, and I had the day mostly free. The only limiting factor, I thought, was...
Wild Things: More Ask the Bird Geek
What’s your favorite fun fact about cormorants? — The Long Haul Swimmer. I don't know if it counts as a fact, but my favorite thing about...
Wild Things: Very loud, rare birds
Kids scream, and by kids I mean fledgling hawks trying to get their parents to feed them. And by scream I mean make a...
Wild Things: Trash pandas of the Florida Keys
It was a lovely boating day, a little windy, but not too choppy in Jewfish Basin because it never is. We pulled up next...
Wild Things: A modest sportsball naming proposal
I think my favorite sports team names come from weird places. Of most recent high visibility are the New York Knicks, an abridgment from...
Wild Things: Taking the long view
Whenever I take the ferry out to the Dry Tortugas, especially during the high heat of summer, I always worry, what am I going...
Wild Things: Getting Reacquainted in the Tortugas
You think you know a place, and then you don’t visit for eight or nine years, and things start to feel a little foreign. I’m...
WILD THINGS: HARD HEADS & RED BELLIES
I was at Fort Zachary Taylor, hiding in the afternoon shade of the canopy, near the blacksmith’s shop, when I had a clear look...
