Category: Outdoors
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Fallfish on the fly
Read more…: Fallfish on the flyI went blue lining today in search of brook trout in NY near the CT border. I didn’t find any brookies, but I did catch 14 fallfish. Fallfish are a large native minnow species. All of the ones I caught were 6-10in long, but there were dozens of fingerling size in the stream, too. Even…
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Trout Releases & Macroinvertebrate Sampling
Read more…: Trout Releases & Macroinvertebrate SamplingLast Thursday and today I volunteered with the Croton Watershed chapter of Trout Unlimited to assist with a trout release and macroinvertebrate sampling at Cross River as part of the Trout in the Classroom program. In the fall, the New York State Department of Conservation sends trout eggs to schools. The students watch them hatch,…
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Two wildflowers from a walk: Mullein and Ghost Pipe
Read more…: Two wildflowers from a walk: Mullein and Ghost PipeI never remember the name of Mullein, Latin name Verbascum thapsus (left/first photo), so I thought I’d blog it in an attempt to remember. Fun facts about the Mullein: It does not flower until the second year, and an individual flower is only open for a single day. The second I saw for the first…
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Calm morning on the Hudson
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Finding Wilderness Within Civilization
Read more…: Finding Wilderness Within CivilizationI read this article from The Guardian about an ophthalmologist who is spending his retirement living out of a backpack and hiking all around the US. Most of it is only mildly interesting, but I loved this part: The next night, we slept in a copse of gnarled oaks beside a graveyard, a shady grove…