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Clyde McMillan-Gamber - 50plus LIFE
  • The Beauty in Nature: Upland Sandpipers

    One afternoon, late in July, several years ago, I was driving on a country road in southern Lebanon County. Suddenly, a group of a dozen dove-sized birds flew swiftly and low across the road, close in front of me.

  • The Beauty in Nature: Brown Pelicans

    In April, every so many years, I have seen wavering lines and V-shaped flocks, one after another, of low-flying brown pelicans migrating north along the Atlantic Ocean shores and beaches of Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina.

  • The Beauty in Nature: Ghost Crabs and Fiddler Crabs

    Summer weather has arrived, and many people vacation along the Atlantic Coast, where numerous kinds of semi-aquatic creatures live, including related ghost crabs and fiddler crabs.

  • The Beauty in Nature: Ghost Crabs and Fiddler Crabs

    Summer weather has arrived, and many people vacation along the Atlantic Coast, where numerous kinds of semi-aquatic creatures live, including related ghost crabs and fiddler crabs.

  • The Beauty in Nature: Tulip Trees and Sweet Gums

    Tulip trees and sweet gum trees are attractive, native species that dominate much of the Southern Coastal Plain of extreme southeastern Pennsylvania to Georgia.

  • The Beauty in Nature: Tulip Trees and Sweet Gums

    Tulip trees and sweet gum trees are attractive, native species that dominate much of the Southern Coastal Plain of extreme southeastern Pennsylvania to Georgia.

  • The Beauty in Nature: Eastern Coyotes

    I have enjoyed seeing several eastern coyotes at Lake Onalaska off the Mississippi River in Wisconsin, at Rowe Sanctuary along the Platte River in Nebraska, at deer feeders in Maine and Iowa, and at other places through live cameras and our home computer screens.

  • The Beauty in Nature: Maple Sugaring

    John Burroughs, farmer and famous naturalist in the 19th century, wrote, “Next week, or the week after, it may be time to begin plowing, and other sober work about the farm, but this week we will picnic among the maples, and our campfire shall be an incense to spring.”

  • The Beauty in Nature: Wintering Shorebirds

    Dunlin, sanderlings, ruddy turnstones, and purple sandpipers are small shorebirds that nest on the Arctic tundra. However, many individuals of each kind winter along the Atlantic Ocean coasts of New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and farther south.

  • The Beauty in Nature: Wintering Shorebirds

    Dunlin, sanderlings, ruddy turnstones, and purple sandpipers are small shorebirds that nest on the Arctic tundra. However, many individuals of each kind winter along the Atlantic Ocean coasts of New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and farther south.

  • The Beauty in Nature: Observing Bald Eagles

    Happily, bald eagle populations have increased greatly throughout North America, including in southeastern Pennsylvania, because of the ban on the use of DDT since 1972.

  • The Beauty in Nature: Wildlife Succession in Cornfields

    Much farmland in southeastern Pennsylvania is devoted to raising field corn. Cornfields are human-made habitats that have stages of succession, from bare ground to rows of tall corn plants, to short stubble after being harvested. And each stage is inhabited by certain adaptable kinds of wildlife.

  • The Beauty in Nature: Wandering Albatrosses

    Wandering albatrosses are well named. They often soar hundreds of miles a day, low over the southern oceans that circle Antarctica, all day, every day, for a couple of weeks straight.

  • The Beauty in Nature: Flying Squirrels

    I’ve seen a few southern flying squirrels “in the flesh” in southeastern Pennsylvania in my lifetime and heard about others from people who saw those charming little rodents, mostly at birdfeeders at night.

  • The Beauty in Nature: Chimney Swifts

    I remember walking along a sidewalk when I was 5 years old and hearing chattering overhead. Looking up, I saw a loose group of small birds flying swiftly.

  • The Beauty in Nature: 2 Yellowjacket Wasps

    By late summer, most of us have been pestered by yellowjackets at picnics, and some of us noticed the gray, football-sized paper nests of bald-faced hornets attached to twigs in trees.

  • The Beauty in Nature: Blooming Southern Trees

    One sultry, moonlit July evening a few years ago, I enjoyed seeing, and smelling, the large, white blossoms on a 30-foot-tall southern magnolia tree on a southeastern Pennsylvania lawn.

  • The Beauty in Nature: Tree-Nesting Shorebirds

    Solitary sandpipers and Bonaparte’s gulls are unusual shorebirds in their respective families.

  • The Beauty in Nature: Tree-Nesting Shorebirds

    Solitary sandpipers and Bonaparte’s gulls are unusual shorebirds in their respective families.

  • The Beauty in Nature: Converging Birds and Horseshoe Crabs

    In May of some years, I’ve traveled to Delaware Bay beaches in New Jersey and Delaware to experience the convergence of many thousands of spawning horseshoe crabs, nesting laughing gulls, and migrating shorebirds, including red knots, ruddy turnstones, dunlin, and semi-palmated sandpipers.

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