September 30, 2005 | Dr. Jeff Wells
Sept. 30, 2005
My friend Will had predicted that today would be a major hawk migration day. Of course, he meant down on the coast at his favorite hawk-watching spot not 30 miles inland here along the...
September 23, 2005 | Dr. Jeff Wells
September 23, 2006 - Hallowell, Maine
A few nights ago, a river of birds streamed over my head, over my little town in Maine, over Portland, and Boston and New York. I stood out on my porch in...
August 21, 2005 | Dr. Jeff Wells
Thursday, Aug. 18, Norman Wells
A peek through the window shades when the alarm beeps at six confirms yesterday's forecast--rain, wind, and a low, gray cloud ceiling that hides the mountains. At...
August 19, 2005 | Dr. Jeff Wells
My father-in-law picked up the phone when I called home to my wife from the Mackenzie Hotel in Norman Wells. "What does it look like?" he asked before handing the phone over to my wife. Trying to...
August 16, 2005 | Dr. Jeff Wells
We arrived in Deline--a community of 600 mainly Dene people along the shores of Great Bear Lake--late yesterday afternoon after a 90 minute flight north from Yellowknife. For about an hour we flew...
August 14, 2005 | Dr. Jeff Wells
Canadian North--a medium size white jet with a yellow sun and polar bear painted on its blue tail--boards from the rear via a stairway. The rear boarding reminds me of some flights to and from...
August 14, 2005 | Dr. Jeff Wells
3:00 PM Edmonton, Alberta
This morning (8/14) I left my home in Maine at 6 AM, the sound of one of the last singing American Robins echoing around the neighborhood. Eleven hours and several bouts of...
