Bryan Pfeiffer
Field biologist, writer, aspiring botanist, fledgling geezer, boy explorer. (Owned by an English shepherd named Odin.)
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1 week ago |
chasingnature.substack.com | Bryan Pfeiffer
TWENTY-TWO years ago, when things were about to go really bad in the prairie, I had a brush with extinction. No, not my own demise, but rather the prospective oblivion of a little butterfly named Poweshiek Skipperling (Oarisma poweshiek). We met on a sunny day in a wet prairie fen in southern Michigan. Rather than float or flutter like most butterflies, skipperlings dart and scurry.
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3 weeks ago |
chasingnature.substack.com | Bryan Pfeiffer
Color, music, flight, and grace mingle in the lives of birds. But few birds pull it off like warblers. What’s a warbler? The standard definition is: a small, vocal, colorful, migratory bird in the family Parulidae. But this is an injustice to warblers. So here’s my definition:war•bler | ˈwôrb(ə)lər |noun(1) A force of nature, like gravity or chocolate or lovemaking, like harmony or a sunset or a shooting star.
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4 weeks ago |
chasingnature.substack.com | Bryan Pfeiffer
IN THIS ERA of lies and hyperbole, here is a bird truly worthy of its superlatives: robust, dazzling, theatrical.
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1 month ago |
chasingnature.substack.com | Bryan Pfeiffer
IN THE naked woods of April, you will find neither tariffs nor turmoil — only grace and renewal. Spring-beauties emerge to bloom hot pink from last autumn's fallen leaves. The flowers of Hepatica are soft pastels of blue, lilac, or cream. And the Bloodroot: well, the Bloodroot is immune to the blood sport of commerce and politics. The world economy, we are told, is in upheaval owing to men in power with ideas about money and free markets. Stock prices swing. People profit. People suffer.
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2 months ago |
chasingnature.substack.com | Bryan Pfeiffer
Greetings, readers: Here’s my contribution to an evening of poetry, verse, and music celebrating National Poetry Month and Poem City here in Montpelier, Vermont, a few days ago. Also, please scroll onward to the spring beauties below and my note to Chasing Nature’s paying subscribers. Thanks!GRANTED, I’m not an early bird. I sleep through the confetti of warblers at dawn, and then doze with one eye open to the humans below me going about their rituals.
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A little brown butterfly and an exuberant biologist (me) make the front page of The Boston Globe online today. #lepidoptera #butterfly #nature #vermont https://t.co/JfnVlB7sHu via @BostonGlobe
For birdwatchers and botanists, for biologists and naturalists of any kind, my online photography seminar launches March 1: https://t.co/e5q0k72UOQ #birding #naturephotography #nature #inaturalist #botany #wildlifephotography https://t.co/gRriNNmyIA
A sedge, a ruse and a butterfly. Read all about them: https://t.co/Zsysmh97Nd #botany #lepidoptera #butterfly #macrophotography #nature https://t.co/2nvH02Dpii