Natural Encounters : Biking, Hiking, and Birding Through the Seasons / Bruce M. Beehler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beehler, Bruce M., Author.

Contributor:

Anderton, John C

Yale University Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Outdoor recreation--Washington (D.C.)--Guidebooks.

Washington (D.C.)--Guidebooks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 pages)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A twelve-month excursion through nature's seasons as recounted by a lifetime naturalist In this "personal encyclopedia of nature's seasons," lifetime naturalist Bruce Beehler reflects on his three decades of encountering nature in Washington, D.C. The author takes the reader on a year-long journey through the seasons as he describes the wildlife seen and special natural places savored in his travels up and down the Potomac River and other localities in the eastern and central United States. Some of these experiences are as familiar as observing ducks on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., or as unexpected as collecting fifty-million-year-old fossils on a Potomac beach. Beyond our nation's capital, Beehler describes trips to nature's most beautiful green spaces up and down the East Coast that, he says, should be on every nature lover's bucket list. Combining diary entries, riffs on natural subjects, field trips, photographs, and beautiful half-tone wash drawings, this book shows how many outdoor adventures are out there waiting in one's own backyard. The author inspires the reader to embrace nature to achieve a more peaceful existence.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Map numbers (all on bottom map)

Introduction

1. Late June and July-Sunny, Lazy Days

2. August-Heat and Poison Ivy

3. September-Crickets and Broad-Wings

4. October-Crisp Days, Northwest Winds

5. November-Tumbling Leaves

6. December-Approach of Winter

7. January-River Ice

8. February-Last of Winter

9. March-First of Spring

10. April-Awakenings

11. May-Fulsome Spring, the Warbler Rush

12. June-Chasing the Last of Spring

Afterword

Acknowledgments

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

0-300-24489-4

OCLC:

1100066847