I sat there a moment, weighing the possibilities that this bird intentionally sought my attention. Could it be that this cardinal had noticed the glow from my laptop and understood it meant a person, a potential source of food, was there? Was it truly tapping...
A white tail, tall and skinny as a flagpole, bobbed above the leaves. This was like no tail I’d seen before...
With their unusual shapes, carnival-worthy colors, and the fact that they ensnare and digest insects, pitcher plants have always struck me as the type of fantastical creature that might’ve emerged straight from the pages of Alice in Wonderland. ...
The first time I flew over the matrix of tree islands scattered across the Everglades’ famous grasslands, I was struck by how low and wet the environment was. Star bursts reflected up at me from what appeared to be standing water underlying the vast stretches...
If forests, oceans, plants, animals and endangered species could communicate, would they describe humans in the same way we describe COVID-19 - a pandemic?...
Fall isn’t a season I know well, having spent most of my life in the tropics or sub-tropics. I remember being completely baffled by it when I moved from the Philippines to Indiana for college - how could it be a bright and sunny day,...
I recently awoke to the sounds of screaming. Despite my quickened pulse, I suspected an animal. This was, after all, my Maryland hurricane season home, a wooded property left to the wildlife most of the year. The screams were piercing as I gently slid the...
Sedges swished as I picked my way along the edge of the marsh, freshwater to my left, the Gulf of Mexico lapping on my right....
It was still dark when we gathered in the small office. Dressed in long-pants and long-sleeves with steaming coffee mugs in hand and headlamps shining from our foreheads, we headed to the boat ramp. In an early morning daze, we talked in unnecessarily hushed tones...
It was the new moon and it was dark, the type of blackness one never sees in the city. I squinted at the dirt road glowing in my headlights, hoping to spot a snake soaking in the last warmth of the day, or perhaps a...