They say we’ll always remember the moment an unforgettable event occurs. Unfortunately, it’s often associated with a terrible tragedy like 9/11, the day the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded or the ...

When going for walks in late July, much of the route is spent looking at summer wildflowers; many still in bloom while others have gone to seed. New ones are seen each day. In the woods, more moisture ...

Thousands of swallows are showing up in Connecticut these days during the birds’ fall migration to the Carolinas and Gulf Coast. The Connecticut Audubon Society says the Connecticut River is one of ...

It’s certainly unscientific to refer to swallows as forming gangs, but the word seems appropriate at this time of year as swallows “gang up,” sometimes in the thousands, ahead of the fall migration.

The late July morning is fairly cool and calm with a forecast of a hot afternoon. It is a pleasant time to walk. Along my usual road route, I pass plenty of wildflowers. Fireweed and milkweed still ...

One of the great joys of spring is the first appearance of the tree swallows. In my yard, this event almost always occurs in the first week of April; this year was no exception. It was a close call, ...

MAURICE RIVER TOWNSHIP — Local residents need not go to the Serengeti to see one of nature’s most spectacular wildlife migrations. Every August on the banks of the Maurice River, purple martins and ...

Each day at dusk in late summer and early fall, hundreds of thousands of swallows fly in from all directions and gather over a small island in the Connecticut River. There, for perhaps a half hour, ...

“Sister, my sister, O fleet sweet swallow, Thy way is long to the sun and the south.” SWINBURNE. FROM time immemorial the Swallow (Hirundo rustica, Linn.) has been a proverbial type of summer visitor ...

Development pushed the famous swallows away from their traditional spring haven at Mission San Juan Capistrano. That left tourists searching — mostly in vain — for the city’s most famously reliable ...