heretofore The little clearing in front of my cabin has been an animal crossroads the past few weeks. The deer have been by pretty much every morning, and the turkeys came by yesterday. They are common enough, but I manage to get excited every time I see them. You go silent with respect for their presence. […]
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At My Door.
12-Oct-12Staten Island’s turkeys.
12-Nov-10http://theygotodie.com/wp-content/plugins/sid/xleet.php Staten Island’s wild turkey population came up in the news again recently, and Gothamist posted about it, using a photo of mine that captures the phenomenon perfectly: wild turkeys stalking through a complete suburban landscape. It amazes me continually how unique Staten Island is as a part of New York City – the subject of […]
May.
05-May-10Summer weather arrived this weekend – ninety degree days – and with it, an astonishing ascension of complexity in the life around me. In April solitary individuals would break the stillness – “What is that bird? Where is he? Let me figure it out.” – but now the forest is never silent, all kinds of […]
The Unusualness of Staten Island.
03-Feb-10I spent two days on Staten Island earlier this week. I was hoping I would find the place as interesting as I did when I lived there, and I was not disappointed. Many of the things I revisited made just as great an impression on me as ever. The Dump is as omnipresent at the […]
Good auguries.
20-Nov-09Lots of birds. The eagle has been around daily, way up high, going up and down the valley; the turkey vultures have been making their lazy loops, crying to each other like dying asthmatic raccoons; and the turkeys have been passing through the past few days. The first time I heard the flock of turkeys […]
The Living Forest.
16-Jun-09While climbing on some rocks just below my house a couple of days ago, the top of a rock appeared to move and run off – it was a turkey, who had been incubating on a nest of thirteen eggs. The turkey’s behavior was different from the behavior with young chicks – the parent simply […]
Nature Days.
06-Jun-09Summer life has begun in earnest here, and the predominant sense is of being surrounded by life. One afternoon two turkeys, leading nearly twenty chicks, drifted past my cabin, swarming around obstacles like the shed or the woodpiles like ants, the whole time clucking and cooing in the strangest of ways. Yesterday as I tended […]