Sadly…this one was a wild goose chase! It was still fun birding with my mom, though, in my short trip home. 🙂

Featured photo credit: my bog birding buddy, Alyssa DeRubeis! This morning, we went to Sax-Zim Bog and staked out the Admiral Rd. feeder before 9 AM. I dumped 100% organic peanut butter all over the wooden parts of the setup so as to attract the American marten…and it worked! Minutes later, the marten cautiously approached […]

This year, I picked up a new atlas block for this final year of the Wisconsin Breeding Bird Atlas! I’ll be the primary atlaser, but looking for all the help I can get covering this block! 🙂 Really excited to get out there and start looking for owls soon. I’m especially thrilled because this is […]

I’ve been working on my vision board and re-reading the article from the magazine I got it from. It asks you to go beyond your goal (their example: living in the country) to why you have it. How does e.g. living in the country make you feel? I asked myself that with regard to my […]

‘Tis the season for all kinds of cool sky displays! Among them, the CZA, which is best observed when the sun is at 22 degrees above the horizon: https://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/AltAz.php

For Paul’s spring break this year, we set off toward Wyoming on a road trip that would take most of the week. We made our way across South Dakota to visit Custer State Park. There, we had an unexpected lifer: a small flock of male chestnut-collared longspurs (3/26)! Our ultimate destination was a lek site […]

Today, for my birthday (yesterday) we went for a half day dogsled ride! Actually, the time on the sled was probably somewhere around 2 hours, but we arrived at the lodge 1 PM and we left the place just after 4:30 PM.  An upside to the early arrival of winter, we were able to schedule a […]

Today is my birthday, so I’m going to share with you perhaps some of the most important things I’ve learned in my 32 years around the sun: how to dress for cold weather. My birthday weekend adventures give this east coast girl an excuse to write about the complexities of dressing for winter in a […]

After the tour, we walked from the main house through the Annie Dupont formal garden to the trail through landmark forest. So, we took the turkey foot trail and did the poplar run loop. We returned on mountain mill road.

We walked the trail from Monticello back to the visitor’s center after the tour. Along the way, we stopped at the cemetery to see Jefferson’s grave.