A pair of buffleheads bobbed on the north old clay pit this morning. Just them. Well, a pair of Canada geese were on the west shoreline....

It has been 41 years (and a few days) already since Philippe Petit walked a wire between the World Trade Center buildings. The walk was...

A turkey vulture--those slow-flapping, utterly ugle birds of carrion--of all things flapped off low overhead this morning as Lady and I...