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Hoot Owl Karma: Tongue Twister - Cottonmouth Caught on Tape!
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Encountering Nature Through Lens and Pen. Sunday, September 29, 2013. Tongue Twister - Cottonmouth Caught on Tape! After a Saturday largely filled with cross country meets, English projects and AP US History, by late afternoon the boys were ready for a break. After a brief family confab, we headed out for Weymouth Woods Sandhills Nature Preserve. For a quick dose of nature and the great outdoors. Agkistrodon piscivorus, a.k.a. Eastern Cottonmouth. Fortunately for us, and our loyal Hoot Owl viewers, Jay w...
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Hoot Owl Karma: What the Wild Crane Knows...
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Encountering Nature Through Lens and Pen. Thursday, June 18, 2015. What the Wild Crane Knows. For three weeks or so this spring, lucky residents and visitors to the Tramway area of Lee County, North Carolina, had the opportunity to observe and commune with a pair of incredibly gregarious and engaging Sandhill cranes. It's been almost exactly a month since they left our fair burg, but they've not been forgotten. So we remember our wandering cranes for the time they spent with us, accepting the mystery of ...
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Hoot Owl Karma: Milkweed Chronicles, Monarchs in the Making
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Encountering Nature Through Lens and Pen. Thursday, June 18, 2015. Milkweed Chronicles, Monarchs in the Making. Summer is nigh in the Sandhills, and it's a hot time tonight in the milkweed patch. Those beautiful pests, Japanese beetles, are as abundant in the wild milkweed patch as they are in your backyard flower garden, and bumblebees abound on the blossoms as well. This fearsome predator, a wheel bug nymph, injects its victim with digestive enzymes,. For this is their one true calling as caterpillars,.
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Hoot Owl Karma: Where Have All the Pine Snakes Gone...
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Encountering Nature Through Lens and Pen. Friday, August 10, 2012. Where Have All the Pine Snakes Gone. Didn't find nary an egg this morning, that chicken snake's back! Hung down from the roof of the coop and touched the ground, and that thing's way over six feet tall! Stretched clear across the driveway, couldn't even see where he ended in the weeds on the other side. Where's he gone. let me get my gun! Where has he gone? Where has she gone? Where have all the pine snakes gone? When will we ever learn?
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Hoot Owl Karma: A Tale of Two Clematis
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Encountering Nature Through Lens and Pen. Friday, August 23, 2013. A Tale of Two Clematis. While walking the Endor Trail through the heart of West Sanford with Julie this week, our olfactory senses were overwhelmed by the incredibly sweet scent of clematis blossoms in the late evening air. This post began as a celebration of the wild clematis, a.k.a. virgins bower,. It was, rather, one of those pesky naturalized aliens we were discussing just yesterday. Clematis terniflora, sweet autumn clematis, nat...
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Hoot Owl Karma: Summer Peeper
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Encountering Nature Through Lens and Pen. Sunday, July 19, 2015. It's high noon in mid-July, and we're melting in the midst of the milkweed. Cooling showers are on the way, but for now they're nothing but a distant rumbled promise in the still, hot air. Only a single flowerhead brightens the formerly blossom-laden roadside stand, though abundant new growth offers hope for late summer nectarers. A single stride brings us to the emerald brink, and a quick peek inside finds our old friend Pseudacris crucifer.
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Hoot Owl Karma: A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing...Hickory Horned Devil
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Encountering Nature Through Lens and Pen. Wednesday, August 22, 2012. A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing.Hickory Horned Devil. Nature, master of deception. Fearsome Dragon. Demon Seed. Gentle Giant. Hungry Child. The Regal Moth, splendid scion of the Saturniids, like its kin the Cecropia, Polyphemus and Luna moths, has only vestigial mouthparts. It emerges each summer from months of slumber with no means of nourishing itself, and barely a week to live. Fly, fly, mate and die. Sweet dreams, gentle giant. Tongue T...
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Hoot Owl Karma: Owl Eyes - New Year's Surprise
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Encountering Nature Through Lens and Pen. Tuesday, December 31, 2013. Owl Eyes - New Year's Surprise. A mile a minute's pretty fast, but Owl's eyes are faster. A screeching halt, quick turnaround, camera at the ready. Piercing, perceptive, unwavering eyes; hypnotic even. The boys take turns, a few quick shots, documentary, quick-before-it-flies! Confidence growing, tentative step closer, just one more, then another.don't make a sound! Don't make a sound? Like it hasn't seen you already! Alas, it's flown!
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Hoot Owl Karma: Minecraft for Dummies-Jay Mines for Emeralds in NC
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Encountering Nature Through Lens and Pen. Sunday, August 19, 2012. Minecraft for Dummies-Jay Mines for Emeralds in NC. Jay, becoming bored with game-world emeralds, developed a hankering for the genuine article. So he put on his real-world geology hat and did a little digging in the reference books. According to the experts, most of the world's finest emeralds are found in Colombia, with others from India, South Africa, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia, Zimbabwe, and North Carolina. Mining for the "green".
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Hoot Owl Karma: Home Is Where the Hawk Is
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Encountering Nature Through Lens and Pen. Wednesday, November 12, 2014. Home Is Where the Hawk Is. The red-shouldered hawk is a native, medium-to-large hawk of forested habitat with a definite affinity for water. It is not unusual to observe it perching near a pond or river or swamp, eyes peeled for the slightest movement that might betray the location of its next meal. This is not the wild. It is not nature. It would be a stretch to call it a natural environment for anything other than yuppies. A slight...
