Author Archives: Dale Hoyt

Ramble Report August 23 2018

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Today’s Ramble was led by Dale Hoyt.

Here’s
the link to Don’s Facebook album for today’s Ramble. (All the
photos in this post, unless otherwise noted, are compliments of Don.)

Today’s post was written by Dale Hoyt.

Today’s Focus:
Butterflies in the Flower Garden.

35 Ramblers met today.

Announcements:

1.    
Trail Guide training at Sandy Creek Nature
Center (SCNC) on Wednesday, August 29, Thursday, August 30, or Friday, August
31 from 9-12. You only need to attend one session.

2.    
Guided Ramble at SCNC on Wednesday, September 5
at 9 am, followed by coffee and treats. Carmen Champagne will lead us on a walk
looking for spiders and insects. She is great at spotting and identifying
plants and animals and quite knowledgeable about the life history of the
animals we find.

Today’s reading:
Bob Ambrose treated us to another of his original compositions: Dawn
Dreams in a Glasgow Café.

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Ramble Report August 9 2018

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Today’s Ramble was led by Dale Hoyt.

Here’s
the link to Don’s Facebook album for today’s Ramble. (All the
photos in this post are compliments of Don.)

Today’s post was written by Dale Hoyt.

Today’s Focus:

34 Ramblers met today.

Today’s reading:
Dale read the July 20th entry from An Almanac for Moderns by Donald Culross Peattie (1898 – 1964),
published in 1935.

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Ramble Report August 2 2018

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Today’s Ramble was led by Dale Hoyt.

Here’s
the link to Don’s Facebook album for today’s Ramble. (All the
photos, except where otherwise credited, in this post are compliments of Don.)

Today’s post was written by Dale Hoyt.

11 Ramblers met today.

Today’s reading:
No reading today.

Today’s route:
Down the access road to the passionflower vines, then up the hill to the
prairie patch and then return to the Visitor Center.

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Ramble Report July 26 2018

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Today’s Ramble was led by Linda Chafin.

Here’s
the link to Don’s Facebook album for today’s Ramble. (All the
photos in this post are compliments of Don.)

Today’s post was written by Linda Chafin & Dale Hoyt.

Today’s Focus:

26 Ramblers met today.

Announcements:

Congaree National Park field trip: A small group of Ramblers
decided to visit Congaree National Park, outside of Columbia, SC, Nov. 9 – 11,
2018, stimulated
by a recent article in the New York Times. If any other Ramblers are interested in joining us you can find more details on our Announcements page.

Nature Rambler book club: Linda and Dale have been talking about a
book club that would focus on “nature” books, broadly defined. Before we get
started we need to find a free place to meet once a month. If you know of such
a venue please email suggestions with the Subject line “NR book club,” to Dale.

Catalpa “worm” (really a caterpillar)

Show & Tell: Gary
brought in a “catalpa worm” aka “catawba

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What You Can Do with Poo?

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A family of Burrowing Owls
(By travelwayoflife (Flickr: Owl Family Portrait) [CC
BY-SA 2.0 
(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons)

For many years it was thought that only humans used tools.
Then chimpanzees were seen using sticks to get termites and folding leaves into
cups to hold water. After that it was

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Ramble Report July 5 2018

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Today’s Ramble was led by Dale Hoyt.

Here’s
the link to Don’s Facebook album for today’s Ramble. (All the
photos in this post, except when otherwise credited, are compliments of Don.)

Today’s post was written by Dale Hoyt.

28 Ramblers met today.

Today’s reading: Richard read The
Summer Day by Mary Oliver.

Dale read the June 29th entry from Donald
Culross Peattie’s An Almanac for Moderns:

THE merest beginning upon a
little specializing in the

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