Past Years: Introduction 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

2005 Entries: December 31: lists December 27: cultural merit December 23: antenna stories 2 December 23: antenna stories 1 December 22: Festival of the Cranes Photos December 11: brant and horned larks December 6: on writing well -- not December 4: common snipe November 27: green chile, sandhill cranes, and josh beckett November 13: holy ground November 6: books and brant in the mist October 31: forty years is forty years October 30: books and things October 29: northeast October 23: 1 in 18.1 million September 5: that old gang of mine August 29: year in review August 6: family values, strange radio, phone pix, and whatever July 31: at the tern barge July 30: all the birds July 26: this just in July 23: bits from the beach July 16: productivity July 9: rain delay format July 2: a top ten day June 25: a long way to the water line June 18: comparative flycatching June 11: the heat of the day June 4: a whole different beach May 21: a mouthful of wrack, a striped bass, the universe, and everything May 14: invisi-birds revealed April 30: inverse proportion April 18: nice day April 16: 0 for 2 April 8: wrack April 2: flood watch March 30: another poet gone March 27: drisk, risk, and the idea of north February 14: sprinkler factory open studios February 11: ice or something January 22: odd art form January 9: snow, ice, flannel sheets January 4: in this same new bedford -- followup January 3: in this same new bedford