CREW Bird Rookery Swamp – 2/18/2022 by Bill Gadbow CREW stands for Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed. The CREW Bird Rookery Swamp has a three-mile trail through a working cattle ranch, and it is about eight miles from the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary. On the half-mile car ride from the rookery entrance sign Read more »
JN “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge – Sanibel Island, Florida – 2/16/2022 Sanibel Island is a barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico not far from Fort Meyers. You access it by crossing over a really long and tall bridge / causeway. About half of the island is dedicated to an excellent wildlife refuge Read more »
Bunche Beach and hanging out poolside in Florida – 2/21/2022 by Bill Gadbow Chris and I got a great deal for eight nights at the La Quinta in Fort Myers Beach on Summerlin Road. It has the best pool in the area, and we spent days sitting poolside, Read more »
Bringing Nature Inside – Breeding Angelfish by Bill Colombo and Dave Gadbow The Gadbow family is pretty large and one of the ways we stay in touch is with family group texts. In January and February of this year, we all got to witness a really interesting project done by our Read more »
Safety Rules by Bill Gadbow …. an excerpt from “The Balderson Drive Conspiracy One” by Bill Gadbow, available on paperback or as an e-book on Amazon Books … When I got back from New Mexico, a few things happened at home that I had to take care of. Once I got through Read more »
Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary– 2/18/2022 by Bill Gadbow Two of my best days birding ever were in the Audubon Society’s Corkscrew Sanctuary in February of 2017. I was super-excited to be able to show this fantastic birding Mecca to Chris in 2022. We were required to set up a timed reservation and bought our Read more »
A Birds Eat Free edition needs a post with birds eating for free. Here we go:
PA Farm Show – Cows and people By Christine Gadbow People who keep cows seem develop a close mutual relationship with them. The cows aren’t pets, like dogs, cats, or goldfish. The cows seem a lot more independent, which makes the casual way that the two species like each other different than pets. It was Read more »
Garden Update – January — photos by Greg Allen — We started putting down the cardboard. The area isn’t completely cleared, but we will keep working on it. This leads me to our first lesson learned. Don’t underestimate the difficulty of clearing overgrown land. It can be a b*tch. This large area Read more »
Lichen — by Bill Gadbow — — an excerpt from “Neanderthal: Paradise Lost” by Bill Gadbow – available in paperback or as an e-book from Amazon books — The rain had caused the steppe to bloom. Within hours of the end of the storm, the dry wasteland had turned green. For miles Read more »