OK, it’s not a secret – I have the chicken pox. It seems to have been caused not by simply catching it from another infected person; oh no. I have developed it ex nihilo, as it were, as a result of having received a vaccination against the very disease itself. I think the proper expletive […]
John E. Riutta
About John E. Riutta
Posts by John E. Riutta, MA, MBA, FLS, MemRES:
The Birth of a Blog
It is indeed a true pleasure to share with all the Born Again Bird Watcher reading community the news of a new blog’s arrival into the virtual world. The Nature Blog Network, the Internet’s primary hub of nature-related blogs, has just this very day launched the Nature Blog Network Blog. A collaborative endeavor of three […]
No Sloths Were Harmed
Following my recent road-crossing sloth post, some readers have contacted me expressing their concern about the sloth’s safety. I am very pleased to be able to write that thanks to the quick actions of Yenia from Recontour S.A., our guide Luis, and the ever-valliant Jeffrey A. Gordon, the sloth was safely moved from the road […]
Ohhh… Nuts!
Downloading the latest images from my Wingscapes BirdCam, I discovered this one of what at first glance appeared to be one of the local squirrels having a little too much fun swinging on the nut feeder. However when I took a closer look, the expression on the squirrel’s face, be it accidental or a true […]