A Day on Assateague Island
[Show as slideshow] 1234...131415► By Leslie Adkins As we drove along, I looked around at all of the signs of nature, smelling the forest around us. As we crossed into the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge we heard, “Have your cameras ready,” from our publisher and driver on this weekend visit, Robert Boswell, who also was calling out camera settings for us to figure out. Then we headed toward the Bateman information center which is where everyone...
Nature Plays Heavy Hand on Assateague Island
For Refuge Biologists, a Loggerhead Nest Is Worth Many Moments of Joy By Zack Hoverson, Misty Thornton and Robert Boswell From a distance it looked like another dead turtle. But wait. This one was moving. With its head and flippers in action, it was headed toward the sea. This was enough to bring Joelle Buffer, a senior biologist at the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, to a state of full alert. “My emotions went from ‘bummed out’ to ecstatic in a 10th...
Getting Up Early with the Ponies
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK By Cyndel Brunell Clop, clop, clop. The constant beat of a horse going through your mind while you wait anxiously for the ponies to come in. You look around for any little head or moving color that will tell you the northern herd of the Chincoteague ponies is headed for the corral. You over hear a radio they’re a mile out and you look down a long road. The action is coming your way. It is the spring roundup of the famous Chincoteague...
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