If you are planning a trip anywhere on the East Coast, Natural Encounters: Biking, Hiking, and Birding Through the Seasons (Yale University Press; May 21, 2019) by naturalist, ornithologist, and Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History researcher Bruce Beehler is a must-have guide to the most amazing sites and locations that nature has to offer. He starts in DC and moves up and down the East Coast visiting Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ohio, and Ontario.
Reflecting on his three decades of studying nature, Beehler has assembled a personal encyclopedia of the seasons. Natural Encounters takes us on a year‑long journey to highlight the beautiful wildlife and special natural places to up and down the Eastern seaboard and into Ohio.