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Another day at the creek

After only getting to spend an hour snorkeling in Mill Creek on Saturday, I headed to Rogers Creek on Sunday.  Rogers Creek is the next tributary of the Current River upstream from Mill Creek.  It’s somewhat smaller than  Mill Creek, doesn’t have nearly the volume of spring flow feeding it and has a tendency to go […]

Colors of the Rainbow

Two weekends ago, things finally came together.  I had a wetsuit that fit and a beautiful 85 degree Saturday to make use of it.  I headed to Mill Creek, a tributary of the Current River, where it crosses my uncle’s place north of Van Buren.  I was a little self-conscious in the wetsuit (A 6′, 265 […]

Crayfish Surprise

In our previous episode, our intrepid naturalist along with his wife Dayna and sister Lori were at Big Spring, about 9:30 p.m., braving the threat of an approaching thunderstorm and wandering through a series of sloughs, searching for breeding salamanders and hoping to find a wandering Devil Crayfish (Cambarus diogenes) in the process.  Successful in finding […]

It was a dark and stormy night,

nearly 60°, warm for early March, with light rain and distant lightning providing a portent of things to come.  When I stepped outside about 8:00 pm the Spring Peepers were going insane and I thought that was a good sign that the warm, rainy night might have the local salamander population heading towards fishless waters looking […]

Rocky Creek

About a month ago, I finally gave in to the temptation to upgrade from my Olympus point and shoot camera to a “real” DSLR model.  I’d been on-again, off-again considering it for some time and the tipping point was a friend offering me a very sweet deal on some nice Nikon F-mount glass, including 3 macros […]