December 17, 2014 Winter in North Carolina is the perfect time to see wintering waterfowl, especially the famous Tundra Swans and Snow Geese. I missed the Snow Geese last year, so yesterday I was on the lookout for the giant flocks of white. Well, I may have found the Tundra Swans, but the Snow Geese…
Author: Erika Zambello
Erika Zambello is a writer, birder, and photographer living and working along the Emerald Coast of Florida. She has a master’s degree in environmental management, where she specialized in ecosystem science and conservation. Her love of the outdoors was inspired by a childhood in Maine, where she returned for her National Geographic Young Explorer grant. In addition to Maine, she has lived in New York, France, Washington, DC, and North Carolina. Erika believes in the power of communicating conservation and exploration, which was the inspiration for One World, Two Feet.
December 8, 2014 Many people never visit Maine in the winter. “Too cold,” they say, “Too much snow.” While it may be cold and snowy, winter is one of my favorite times to explore. I recently took a walk around Back Cove in Portland, checking out the seabirds and waterfowl that congregate around the cove…
December 2, 2014 The leaves may be off the trees in North Carolina, but that doesn’t mean it’s too cold for camping! We packed and readied our equipment in less than an hour, and at noon we were off, driving the three and a half hours to Linville Gorge, nearing the Blue Ridge Parkway in Western…