Thanks to Lionel Kelleway and all the team at the BBC’s now discontinued Natural History Radio program, I have developed a pronounced recent increase in awareness of and fascination with Bryophytes – mosses, liverworts, and hornworts. Living in Oregon as I do, the development of such an interest is, despite what sociologists or my beloved […]
Jekyll Island
Interlude – Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge
In addition to all the superb presentations and break-out sessions at the Bird Education Network National Gathering at the Jekyll Island Club Hotel on Jekyll Island, Georgia, field sessions were also on the agenda (it’s a bird-related event; would anyone really expect us to refrain from doing at least a little bird watching while located in […]
Interlude – BEN Gathering on Jekyll Island
My arrival at the Bird Education Network Gathering’s designated location was made after a long day’s joruney across the United States and under the cover of night. However even through travel weary eyes I could tell that I had arrived in a place unlike any I had ever been before. While I have travelled across […]