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Updated: Oct 10, 2026 at 09:47 AM
Save for the years I spent on the East Stroudsburg State College campus, I’ve lived 64 years of my life in the Weissport, Lehighton and Ashfield areas.
I still feel Carbon County is my home. I once sw...
Published: Oct 03, 2026 at 01:44 AM
I’ve described before the massive movement of birds in both spring and fall. Note that the fall migration is larger than the spring one, with juvenile birds increasing the birds’ numbers.
Most of the ...
Published: Sep 26, 2026 at 09:14 AM
July: Heat, humidity, gnats, mosquitoes, dry, crunchy lawns, Barry sweating too much, and few birds singing.
August: Ditto, except now the forest foliage is even losing the bright green hues that were...
Updated: Sep 22, 2026 at 01:14 PM
Back in July I penned a column highlighting probably my best birding and nature area, Assateague Island, off Maryland and Virginia.
I guess because we have so little shoreline and marsh areas in the T...
Published: Sep 12, 2026 at 09:00 AM
In my younger days, beginning in September 1975, I spent nearly every Saturday and Sunday atop the Blue Mountain sitting on the rocks of Bake Oven Knob.
I was one of the official hawk counters during ...
Published: Aug 29, 2026 at 09:03 AM
I looked back at notes in my birding log and it brought to mind all the changes that happen near us in next 30 days or so. The first week of September often is just a rerun of the hot weather of July ...
Published: Aug 22, 2026 at 09:00 AM
Pennsylvania is home for at least 21 species of snakes. Of those, only three species are venomous: the timber rattlesnake, the Northern copperhead and a very rare, small rattlesnake, the Eastern massa...
Published: Aug 15, 2026 at 09:00 AM
Metamorphosis: to change body form.
We are all pretty much aware of the process of how a caterpillar makes the slow transformation into a butterfly or moth. The most commonly known, and the one most f...
Published: Aug 08, 2026 at 08:54 AM
Six weeks ago, I wanted to check out one of my favorite songbird areas to add some new birds to my 2026 Carbon County list. It was a decent day, weather wise and bird wise. I heard or saw 73 species o...
Published: Aug 01, 2026 at 09:18 AM
Some folks will see great beauty in a restored 1955 Chevy. I know whenever I visit a car show, the classic cars do make me appreciate them and those who painstakingly restore them.
Others will find cl...