What are your favorite experiences out in nature? Some of my favorites are: the time I saw three male cheetahs in Pilansberg National Park, South Africa, the time my favorite deer (named Wildflower) came to me with twin fawns, and yesterday, when I saw Cedar Waxwings for the first time! I have many …

When Pine Grosbeaks came to my house and one let me touch him; seeing Avocet walking with its young, family of Shelduck, lots of sandpipers, egrets, herons, etc. feeding peacefully next to us; finding first Green woodpecker, it was screaming loudly in early spring morning on a dead tree; Ringed seal…

One time I was walking a trail on a cliff above a river, about 50 yards above the river. It started snowing hard enough that I couldn’t see the river which is beautiful when it snows that hard anyway. All of the sudden, I heard Kree Kree Kree, I looked up to see a Bald Eagle materialize through th…

Sitting still as a family of beavers curiously swim around my kayak whenever I paddle into their lodge inlet at dusk in the summer. Watching thread-waisted ants plant wildflower seeds or finding extremely tiny acorn ants spending the winter inside a cozy, namesake acorn house. Any time spent with c…

I was lucky enough to grow up around people who encouraged (or a least tolerated) my interest in nature and my work has taken me a lot of amazing places. I have a lot of vivid memories of beautiful moments. The ones that stand out are not necessarily the most spectacular. Some of the best are moment…

Favourite nature experiences for me are when I see a rarity unexpectedly. For example I saw a group of Smooth coated Otters when I went for fishing. Or seeing 60 Caspian terns which is a pretty large count from the location etc. But the best one for me is trekking through the forests of Western Gha…

I guess whale watching… One day, we had an excellent whale watching experience in Monterey Bay: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMU6QPhmAY5ypE_sRLDhj61kQT3Tsjce4 then, this day I managed to catch one breaching: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/52854461

Believe it or not, a common ant. It was its behavior that was fascinating. I was camping with friends outside of Austin, Texas when I was a teenager. One of the guys would eat half of an Oreo cookie (the half with the icing) and drop the other half on the ground. I was sitting on the ground and alon…

Hmmm…tough to choose… I remember once when I was moving to my second house in Indiana, and there were cicadas everywhere!!! I remember collecting one, not yet hatched, one of the tiny brown ones that live underground. I stored it in an empty kombucha bottle, as my collecting jars hadn’t been unpac…

I’m sure my list would change depending on when you asked. At the moment, I am thinking of when I lived in Hawaii. There was my trip to the Big Island to drive the Saddle Road. I stopped at Kipuka 21 to observe the native honeycreepers, and I kid you not, I heard them singing the famous five notes …

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