Whiteblack Correspondent Erin Honeycutt has written a series of beautiful and thoughtful essays from her travels, living and work in Iceland.  Below is an exerpt from her latetst entry, call it in code, or by those birds. You can also read:
• Lava Landscape

• In the Belly of a Whale
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Two nights ago I awoke while it was still dark, enjoying the relative cool of early morning. Through the window I saw an orange-tinged crescent moon surrounded by a handful of stars. The sky was ever so slightly touched by color, faintly purple. I dozed and woke again to see [...] [...]

Whiteblack Correspondent Erin Honeycutt reports from Sweden.
Wanas (pronounced Vanos), in southern Sweden, is basically a wonderland. On the land is a medieval castle, an organic farm, an art gallery, and a sculpture park. Everything outside IS part of the art gallery, as artists come from all over the world to create site-specific installations, eliminating [...] [...]

The Community School/Rey Foundation course Monitoring Climate Change is, alas, coming to its end. This week we continued to walk the beautiful 300 acres the Perkins’ Farm and Forest, and continued to see changes in the pheno-phases of the flowers we are monitoring: Canada Mayflower (Maianthemum canadense), hobblebush (Cypripedium acauleto), and bunchberry [...] [...]

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Above: Chef Ashley Bullard checks the soup. Below: Just what a porch is for. The Community School and the Rey Foundation hosted the new Chocorua Food Coop for an informational meeting that included a pie raffle sponsored by Mocha Rizing from Sandwich, NH.

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I love the routine of data collection. At 5:30 I wake up and drink a cup of tea. By 5:45 I’m out the door with binoculars, GPS, bird book and data sheets in hand. Half an hour later, I’m at my first survey site, the birds are beginning to call, and [...] [...]

We had a beautiful siting of lions yesterday morning-they lay around with a lazy confidence that only big-predators can have,  rough-housed, and took a stroll down the road while we sat and watched from a few meters away.
To read more of Clara’s blog entry, click here.
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The OTS (Organization for Tropical Studies) semester ended almost three weeks ago—final presentations went well and we all go to participate in a rhino capture operation with the South African National Park vets! I am now back in Kruger after a road trip with five fellow classmates down through Swaziland and along the coast [...] [...]