Monthly Archives: July 2010

It’s snakegrass, not a snake in the grass, in my yard

Snakegrass, otherwise known to many as horsetail (Equisetum hymale), is an ancient non-flowering plant. © BCP 2010 Wow. Out with my camera in my backyard after the rain again, and look at the strange stuff I found! I knew we had what the kids called snakegrass on our slope heading towards the swamp, but I […]

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Going squirrely in the big city

Eye to eye with a grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis), in Ashbridge’s Bay Park, April 1, 2010. © BCP 2010 I was having my wake-up coffee yesterday and reading my morning paper — the Science section in Tuesday’s New York Times (the July 5th edition  — it gets delivered a day late via The Globe and […]

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A pair of fawns in the Madawaska Valley

A white-tailed deer fawn catches sight of me on a Madawaska Valley cottage road on Saturday, July 3.    © BCP 2010 Well, I didn’t find this lovely white-tailed deer fawn (Odocoileus virginianus)  in my Beach backyard, although I have plenty of colleagues and friends who live just a little further east, out towards the […]

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