he woods hold not such another gemas the nest of the hummingbird.The finding of one is an event. – John Burroughs This is the most common humming bird on the west coast of North America and ranges from northern British Columbia to northern Mexico. This is a moderate sized hummer ranging from 3.9 – 4.3 inches […]
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Some intervales of fair weather last night, rain continue this morning. I walked up the Brook & assended the first Spur of the mountain with much fatigue, the distance about 3 miles, through an intolerable thickets of Small pine, a groth much resembling arrow wood on the Stem of which there is thorns; this groth about
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It must have gone four inches from its tail-tip to its snout. Cried Deacon White with deep delight: “Say, isn’t that a beaut?” “I think it is,” sniffed Major Brown, “a most disgustin’ brute. Its very sight gives me the pip. I’ll bet my bally hat, You’re only spoofin’ me, old chap. You’ll never swallow that.” “The
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“He ketched a frog one day, and took him home, and said he cal’lated to educate him; and so he never done nothing for three months but set in his back yard and learn that frog to jump.” Simon Wheeler inThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. Mark Twain. his is North America’s largest frog averaging
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Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. —Henry David Thoreau Moose are the largest North American ungulate, or within the deer family. Adults stand 4.5 – 6.9 feet at the shoulder, which is about a
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