"Zoonomia"
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Images of Snow
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This short poem by Rg Gregory addresses both the beauty and treachery of a late mid-February snowstorm. Photographed at Grand Forks, North Dakota (21 February 2012).
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Box Elder Bug (Rhopalidae: Boisea trivittata)
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Photographed at the Turtle River State Park, North Dakota (18 February 2012). According to the NWS at Grand Forks, today's high temperature was an unseasonably warm 38oF.
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Balancing Squirrel
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This always hungry Red Squirrel demonstrates the acrobatic utility of its tail as it teeters on the edge of a sunflower seed-filled birdfeeder. A squirrel's tail also func...
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Hungry Rabbit
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An Eastern Cottontail vacuums a mixture of spilled millet and sunflower seeds from old snow on a cold mid-January afternoon. Photographed at Grand Forks, North Dakota (21 ...
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Sleepy Junco
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A sleepy Dark-eyed Junco explores the divide between sleep and wakefulness whilst perched within a tangle of bare lilac branches on a cold and blustery, late January aftern...
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Great Horned Owl (Strigidae: Bubo virginianus) with Muskrat
Lucretius41
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Photographed at Kellys Slough NWR, North Dakota (14 January 2012).
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European Starling (Sturnidae: Sturnus vulgaris) Winter Plumage
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I can't look at a Starling without thinking about Shakespeare (http://m.kitsapsun.com/news/2000/apr/01/starling-shakespeare-lover-introduced-bird-now/). Photographed at Gr...
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White-throated Sparrow (Emberizidae: Zonotrichia albicollis) Feeding
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"I heard a bird sing in the dark of December-- / We're nearer to Spring than we were in September!" -- Oliver Hereford Happy New Year! Photographed at Grand Forks, Nort...
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Brown Creeper (Certhiidae: Certhia americana) Foraging
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Photographed at Grand Forks, North Dakota (25 December 2011).
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Damsel Bug (Nabidae: Nabis) Male and Female
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Unseasonably warm late-November temperatures provoke unseasonable reproductive behavior. Today's high temperature was a record-setting 56oF. The previous record high on t...
About "Zoonomia"
"There is another world, but it is in this one." --W.B. Yeats
From 'Leaves of Grass', by Walt Whitman
"I think I could turn, and live with animals, / they are so placid and self-contain'd, / I stand and look at them long and long. /They do not sweat and whine about their / condition, / They do not lie awake in the dark and weep / for their sins, / They do not make me sick discussing their / duty to God, / Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented / with the mania of owning things, / Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that / lived thousands of years ago, / Not one is respectable or unhappy over the / whole earth."
"Now, as I mellow in years / and home in a beautiful landscape, / Nature allures me again." --W.H. Auden
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"There is another world, but it is in this one." --W.B. Yeats
From 'Leaves of Grass', by Walt Whitman
"I think I could turn, and live with animals, / they are so placid and self-contain'd, / I stand and look at them long and long. /They do...
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