Category: bird
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There are certain summer companions that become part of the landscape so quietly that it’s hard to imagine the place without them. Here, by the small lake, the common gull (Larus canus) has long been one of those presences. The story goes back decades—fifty, perhaps even sixty years—when a pair first arrived. My grandmother welcomed…
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For more than fifty years, there has been a quiet tradition at the summer place by the lake. Each spring, almost as reliably as the melting ice, a pair of European pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca) arrives and settles in. I like to think they return not only for the nesting boxes, but for the same…
Gardening in the North 