Signs of Fall 1: Finding Baby Birds
This is a photograph that popped up in my email a couple of weeks ago. It was accompanied by a phone call asking what kind of a bird it was and what “we” should do with it. I recognized the … Continue...
View ArticleSings of Fall 2: Kiski the Eagle
Last April, I had the honor to give a “Last Lecture” to my colleagues and students at Penn State New Kensington on the occasion of my pending retirement from Penn State. The title of my talk was “The...
View ArticleSigns of Fall 3: Cavity Nesting Team 2017!
Over the past three years I have written a number of blogs about the work of our Cavity Nesting Team in Harrison Hills Park in northern Allegheny County. The Team has twenty-eight nesting boxes...
View ArticleSigns of Fall 4: Make Mine Plastic
The family friend who leaned in to young Ben (Dustin Hoffman) at the party in the movie “The Graduate” and whispered the single word of advice that would lead to Ben’s future success and happiness...
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