Category: Geoff Carpentier

Geoff Carpentier

Geoff Carpentier is a published author, ecotour guide and environmental consultant.

Flying Squirrels

Nov 26, 2020 | Columns, Geoff Carpentier

A Flight of Owls

by The Standard | Nov 13, 2020 | Columns, Geoff Carpentier | 0 |

Correction: My last column was about bird feeding and bird feeders, but it inadvertently was...

Japanese Beetles

by The Standard | Oct 29, 2020 | Columns, Geoff Carpentier | 0 |

The last few days have been really exciting, bird-wise, as hawks, ducks, geese, loons and many small passerines (e.g. kinglets, sparrows and finches) are on the move! Winter is coming whether we like it or not and those hardy...

Mushrooms

by The Standard | Oct 15, 2020 | Columns, Geoff Carpentier | 0 |

North Durham Nature hosted a mushroom walk last weekend. No, that’s not where you take your pet mushroom for a walk! We visited some trails near Uxbridge looking for different types of mushrooms, both poisonous and edible. We...

Broad-winged Hawk

by The Standard | Oct 1, 2020 | Columns, Geoff Carpentier | 0 |

When I sat down and put finger to keyboard (pen to paper for you older folks!), I planned to write...

Where’s everybody going?

by The Standard | Sep 17, 2020 | Columns, Geoff Carpentier | 0 |

I get both excited and saddened at this time of year. In the spring, I await the return of the birds and then all summer long I enjoy their song, but in the fall I know they will again migrate south. The young have fledged and...

Japanese Beetles

by The Standard | Sep 3, 2020 | Columns, Geoff Carpentier | 0 |

This has been an odd summer, as so many insects appear in perilously low numbers, while others appear in abundance. But why is it the ones that cause the most damage, or are the most annoying, are the ones that seem to dominate...

Did that critter just bite me?

by The Standard | Aug 20, 2020 | Columns, Geoff Carpentier | 0 |

As a naturalist I wonder about things, sometimes obvious things, sometimes odd things, but always interesting things. Today’s thought surrounds interactions with insects, their kin and other critters that on occasion negatively...