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A Year across Maryland: A Week-by-Week Guide to Discovering Nature in the Chesapeake Region

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When are you able to find ripe blueberries along the Appalachian Trail in Maryland? Where are you able to see the air filled with monarch butterflies as they migrate south each autumn? If you wish to enjoy nature this weekend, where is the most productive place to visit? Bryan MacKay can tell you.

Written as an almanac, A Year across Maryland invites you to explore the natural world all through the year, from watching bald eagles nesting in January to harvesting mistletoe in December. Entries identify the most productive time and place to experience such wonders as wildflowers blooming, birds in migration, amphibians singing, and morel mushrooms in a position to be picked, sliced, sautéed, and devoured. Color photographs of more than seventy species enrich and illustrate the text. Every week of the year has a really helpful “Go back and forth of the Week.” Personal essays that draw from MacKay’s field notes provide an intimate glimpse into a biologist encounters with plants and animals through the years.

Whether you wish to have to see snow geese and trumpeter swans pausing in their northward migration each March, or the mating “jubilee” of polychaete worms throughout the new moon in May, A Year across Maryland offers valuable advice for the spontaneous adventurer and the serious planner alike.


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