Carl Linnaeus was a legend in his own mind.

The Summer Moon, the full moon of June, takes place on Wednesday.

Migrating shorebirds, seabirds, insect-eaters and sparrows arrive as June also arrives.

Ralph Waldo Emerson recognized that “to be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

We have all heard it — the solid thump of a bird hitting a window. And photos of lots of dead birds — victims of hitting a window near skyscrapers — are awful to see. But only one per cent of all window mortality is from those tall skyscrapers, while 44 per cent of all window strike mortality is due to collisions with windows on buildings that are one to three stories tall.

He just appeared out of the blue.