Hummingbirds and bananaquits at the bird feeders. Can’t help but smile. Can’t help but feel a thrill. Who can be glum in the face of so much animation — so much of what is — packed up in those tiny bodies, abuzz with life, turning sugar into energy.
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Photo by Feroze Omardeen (CC BY 2.0)
A sandfly • Photo by Emilio Floris (Public Domain)
Finding beauty in the beasts
The tropics are a wonderful place to consider our relationship with other species. I mean, you can hardly help it. Things that creep, slither, fly, or crawl invariably show up where you least expect them.
The shell of a Queen conch • Photo by cheesy42 (CC BY 2.0)
Our cousins in name and life
Have you ever seen a pair of Queen Conchs making love? Neither have I.
Photo by Juan Aguirre Saravia on Unsplash
Bahamas on front line for sea-level changes
One can be forgiven for being nervous about global warming if virtually your entire country lies only a few feet above sea level. As ocean water warms, it expands, and sea level rises. Also, a warming climate melts continental ice, further increasing the volume of the sea.
Love vine at work • Photo by Forest & Kim Starr (CC BY 3.0)
Bahamian love vines cling and you can’t let them go
OK, so it’s Valentine’s Week. I’ve just spent a week pulling love vine out of the garden and I’m not feeling very romantic.
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A moon to fully recall
It has been a week and a half since the total lunar eclipse, but the beauty of it is still on my mind.
An abandoned village in the Bahamas • Photo by Venture Minimalists (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Nature takes back an island village
The abandoned village of Richmond Hill lies at the end of a forest track here, four miles from the nearest paved road on the swampy back side of the island, away from the white sand beaches and breezy ridges of Exuma Sound.
A Greater Antillean Boa • Photo by Jan P Zegarra (Public Domain)
Can’t fight phobia even in paradise
Every paradise has its snake, as Adam and Eve learned to their chagrin.
Chilabothrus chrysogaster, one of several species of boa found in the Bahamas • Photo by R. G. Reynolds (Public Domain)
The great exterminator
This is a story about extinction — up close and personal.
Stromatolite formation in the Exumas, Bahamas • Photo by Vincent Poirier (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Survivors from an ancient time
Cryptozoology is the study of unexplained and alleged sightings of strange creatures not documented by standard zoology.