Building on the paradigm of a regional general natural history field guide that Kaufman originally originally established in the Kaufman Field Guide to Nature of New England, this second volume in the series takes up the flora and fauna of – as well as the geology, climate, and night sky as seen from – Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio.
In the spirit of the great American natural history writer Edwin Way Teale, Pete Dunne’s Prairie Spring chronicles the unfolding of a season in a manner reminiscent of the very best American natural history authors.
As I’m still rather road-weary from my recent attendance at the Midwest Birding Symposium in Lakeside, Ohio, my “recombobulation” process is going a bit slowly. Among other normal post-expeditionary activities, I’m sorting through the photos I recorded during my travels – among which I found a nice series taken of the Marblehead Lighthouse at Marblehead […]
Reported at the Midwest Birding Symposium on September 18, 2009: one Kirtland’s Warbler, Dendroica kirtlandii, seen that morning in East Harbor State Park near Lakeside, Ohio. Widespread reaction: twitch!