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Listening for The First Song of Spring

January 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Naturalist at Large

After 12 days of snow cover and subfreezing temperatures, I’ll take any sign I can get that spring will come. I heard it just before daybreak this morning in the song of a Carolina wren. It’s been around all year, of course, and I hear its call notes every day. But today it sang its strident territorial song for the first time this winter. It’s singing a week earlier than I expected.

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A Cacophony of Cranes Made Me a True Believer

December 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Naturalist at Large

Brendan and I were framing end walls for a makeshift woodshed when we heard them. At first I thought the sounds came from pigeons in the eaves. Then I imagined pigeons on steroids or LSD. Brendan looked up and said, “Oh, my god!” Then I recognized what I was hearing. A flock of 50 or 60 sandhill cranes crossed the clear, blue sky above us. They made a wide circle over the village at about 1,000 feet elevation, then veered southwest toward the afternoon sun.

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Handing Over The Keys To Antioch College

September 4th, 2009 · No Comments · News

Lee Morgan and Matthew Derr pose with the keys to Antioch College after they were transferred from Antioch University to the Antioch College Continuation Corporation on Friday, Sept. 4, on the horseshoe on the Antioch College campus in Yellow Springs. [Photo by Chris Stewart/Dayton Daily News] Via the AP/Dayton Daily News: YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio — [...]

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Huck, Is It Time to Light Out for the Territories?

August 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Walkable Village

The Yellow Springs in early March, 2008. [Photo by Mark Willis] Oh, no. My humble, walkable village has been named one of the best 10 small towns in America by Outside magazine (August 2009): Yellow Springs, Ohio: Originally built as a spa town to capitalize on the nearby mineral springs, Yellow Springs (pop. 3,800) is [...]

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