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Bryan's Posts About Being Outside
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2018 Review: Point-and-Shoot Cameras for Wildlife
My 2018 digital camera review for wildlife watchers, including lots of sample photos.
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“Thunder Beasts” and “Swamp Donkeys” – Friday Night in Montpelier
North Branch Nature Center, here in Montpelier, kicks off its Naturalist Journeys lecture series tonight at 7PM with bison, moose, wolves and bears.
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Your Best Field Guides Aren’t Apps
What’s true for movies is true for nature apps: the book is better. If you really want to learn nature, anything from bogs to bumblebees, get an actual book. Here’s my buyer’s guide.
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A Love Letter to Monhegan Island
Sure, I miss the birds and vistas on one of the most beautiful places on this Earth. But what I miss most is the Monhegan melting pot.
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LIVING
For a guy who could easily be dead right now, I’m not feeling half bad.
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Dusk to Daytime High in Vermont
The glow and the light here in three panoramic images from the mountains of Vermont.
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Don’t Drain the Swamp
At long last, I stand with President Trump. Let us ridicule Washington no more as a swamp. A cesspool? Certainly. A sewer? Sure. But not a swamp. Not as a metaphor for our center of dysfunction, corruption and angry tweets. Swamps deserve far better.
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In from the Field (and Out Again)
Scenes from flight season here in Vermont — and beyond.
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A Vireo Underwater
Here on Monhegan Island, off Maine’s midcoast, I noticed a Philadelphia Vireo this morning — underwater.
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April Clickbait
If nature blogs were as rhapsodic as BuzzFeed and other clickbait, they might read something like these.
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A Puff of Springtime from a Grey Alder
Spring erupts from Specked Alder.
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A Poem for April
One of only two poems I have ever written. Yeah, April is that compelling.