Back in early May, I decided to give myself a birthday present and do something beneficial for my yard and wildlife by planting a butterfly ...

The red mulberry, Morus rubra , is a wonder native tree that also bares a wonderful edible fruit.  Red mulberries are, by my account, delici...

Loads and loads of native trees, reaching for the sky. I love trees.  Now I know what you're thinking: "C'mon, David.  You...

Callinectes sapidus , photographed at the Maryland Science Center . Back in 2008, Maryland Governor Martin O'Mally and Virginia Go...

Another day, another dinosaur.  At least that is how it seems here in Maryland.  On September 10 at Dinosaur Park in Laurel, amateur paleon...

It has been entirely too long since I've blogged here at Superoceras .  Shame on me.  But if there is one thing that will get me back in...

As I mentioned in my last post, I spend quite a good deal of time fighting the growth of invasive vines in my yard.  I'll admit, I alway...

Invasive vines: climbing fences and choking out bushes like a boss. My yard is covered in vines.  Terrible, invasive, non-native vines, ...

A while back I left a teaser on the end of a post about  house finches  ( Carpodacus mexicanus ), and never got around to telling you all t...

Here's another piece of local news from the Maryland area. The brother started kayaking on the Potomac River this summer. I wonder wh...

As much as I don't want to write about this, I feel I have to say something. Silver Spring, Maryland, right down the road from where I w...

WARNING: The following post contains little science, and lots of "touchy-feely" stuff, but I'm putting it out there anyway. C...

The snowfall in my backyard the evening after the first storm. The Washington DC area where I live is slowly beginning to recover from a ...

Sorry for the brief hiatus after Darwin/Thanksgiving week. My final weeks of classes and work were starting to catch up with me, but the go...