In Forest and Field

The observations and opinions of a life-long naturalist.

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Nature, red in tooth and claw

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"Nature, red in tooth and claw" is a quote from a poem written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson in 1850 which aptly describes the competit...
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Emeralds with Wings

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Emeralds are precious stones used in jewelry. But there are other precious emeralds in this world. The emeralds in this post are the moths, ...
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Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Eagles in the Wind

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Twas a beautiful early fall day, cool, clear as could be, with a stiff breeze from the northwest. I’d been visiting a large beaver pond and ...
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Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Kermit II

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One evening our daughter sent a picture of a little critter she found on her recycling bin. It was a gray tree frog clinging to the large pl...
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Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Late Summer in the Hollow

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As summer ended it was time to check the card in the camera trap in the hollow. The latter half of July  was extremely dry as was  the entir...
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Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Puddling

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When our son was about four years old my parents were taking care of the kids for the day while H and I were canoeing on the river. Our son...
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Woody Meristem
Land manager in various capacities for 52 years – now retired. A life-long naturalist, managing natural and human impacted ecosystems was my vocation for more than 50 years and I've been photographing those ecosystems even longer. I've been taking photographs since the late 1950s, first with a camera that took roll film, then 35mm slides with a rangefinder camera; my first SLR was purchased in the early 1970s. In the early 2000s I bought a digital camera, the beginning of a succession of Canon bridge superzoom cameras, one of which still gets occasional use. Currently the vast majority of my photographs are taken with Olympus OM-1 or E-M1ii cameras and a variety of Olympus and Panasonic zoom lenses from wide angle to telephoto and a 60mm macro lens.
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