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Category Archives: writing notes
Wildlife Geek Notes: Dragonfly Facts!
My first dragonfly sighting of the year happened this past Sunday. My husband and I were moving the kayaks, when I found this! This dragonfly isn’t eating the insect it’s clinging to. It has just crawled OUT of it, completing … Continue reading
Posted in Hiking/Kayaking, Uncategorized, Wildlife Geek Notes, Wildlife Sightings, writing notes
Tagged dragonfly, insects, Wildlife
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2016 Loon Watch: The Last Visit
My Summer With The Loons: Lazy Fall Days Once school started, I didn’t get out on the lake as often. But when I did, the fall foliage views were amazing! I never knew where the loon family would be. Sometimes … Continue reading
Posted in Campground, Cooper and Packrat, Hiking/Kayaking, My Loon Watch 2016, Wildlife Geek Notes, Wildlife Sightings, writing notes
Tagged birding, Cooper and Packrat, kayaking, loon chick, Loon Watch, loons
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2016 Loon Watch: Late August
My Summer With The Loons: Hoot Behavior Late August, the weekend before Labor Day Weekend, I found a chance to kayak out again with my friend Cindy. This time, it was so foggy, we could barely see beyond the front … Continue reading
Posted in Campground, Cooper and Packrat, Hiking/Kayaking, My Loon Watch 2016, Wildlife Geek Notes, Wildlife Sightings, writing notes
Tagged birding, Cooper and Packrat, kayaking, loon chick, Loon Watch, loons, Wildlife
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2016 Loon Watch: The Chick Grows
My Summer With The Loons: Little Loon Is Two Weeks Old In my last blog post, I’d visited the loon family on July 16th when the chick was only 5 days old. There wasn’t a morning after that, I didn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Campground, Cooper and Packrat, Hiking/Kayaking, My Loon Watch 2016, Wildlife Geek Notes, Wildlife Sightings, writing notes
Tagged Cooper and Packrat, kayaking, loon chick, Loon Watch, loons, Wildlife
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2016 Loon Watch: Five Days After Hatching
My Summer With The Loons: Chick Cuteness Overload Warning! There are tons of chick photos within, it might prove to be too cute . . . July is a very, very busy month for a campground owner, and I wasn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Campground, Cooper and Packrat, Hiking/Kayaking, My Loon Watch 2016, Wildlife Geek Notes, Wildlife Sightings, writing notes
Tagged birding, Cooper and Packrat, loon chick, Loon Watch, loons, Wildlife
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2016 Loon Watch: Hatching Day!
My Summer With The Loons: Will there be chicks? On a rainy July 10th, 2016, exactly 27 days after laying two olive colored eggs, the adult loon on the nest reared back to turn them. I very clearly saw pips … Continue reading
Posted in Cooper and Packrat, Hiking/Kayaking, My Loon Watch 2016, Wildlife Geek Notes, Wildlife Sightings, writing notes
Tagged birding, Cooper and Packrat, kayaking, loon chick, Loon Watch, loons, Wildlife
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2016 Loon Watch: The Week Before Hatching
My Summer With The Loons: Week 4 In the final days before (what I’d calculated to be) 2016’s loon hatching day, something felt a little different. I was going out in my kayak at the same time. Sitting in the … Continue reading
Posted in Campground, Cooper and Packrat, Hiking/Kayaking, My Loon Watch 2016, Wildlife Geek Notes, Wildlife Sightings, writing notes
Tagged birding, Cooper and Packrat, kayaking, Loon Watch, loons, Mystery on Pine Lake, Wildlife
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2016 Loon Watch ~ Nesting Weeks Two and Three
My Summer With The Loons: Weeks Two and Three During the second and third weeks of monitoring the loons nesting period, I got into a routine. I’d paddle out at 6am to see them, coasting the last fifty yards or … Continue reading
Posted in Cooper and Packrat, Hiking/Kayaking, My Loon Watch 2016, Teaching Notes, Wildlife Geek Notes, Wildlife Sightings, writing notes
Tagged birding, kayaking, Loon Watch, loons, Wildlife
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2016 Loon Watch ~ My Summer With the Loons
My Adventure Begins My story begins back in May, 2016. School was in session, we owned the campground and it had just opened, aaaand I struggled to find writing time for Cooper and Packrat’s fourth adventure, Mystery of the Bear … Continue reading
Gopher Tortoise
An Endangered Species in Florida I’ve visited my in-laws on Sanibel Island so many times over the last twenty years, that it has become like a second home to me. Everywhere you go, there are yellow warning signs that say: … Continue reading
Posted in Sanibel Island, Wildlife Geek Notes, Wildlife Sightings, writing notes
Tagged Sanibel Island, turtles, Wildlife
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