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Wild Cape Cod Notebook: Summer Bird Migrations
We took a break from our field work tracking and photographing white sharks here on Cape Cod to head to a favorite birding spot on...
John J King II
Aug 27, 20171 min read
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Wild Cape Cod Notebook: Summer White Shark Research Report
Our summer adventures here on Cape Cod have once again been breath taking and the time has passed quickly. As in the previous 3 years we...
John J King II
Aug 16, 20172 min read
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Report from SE Alaska: Bald Eagle “Top Gun” School
On our recent trip to SE Alaska to observe the annual herring spawn spectacle (previously reported on) we made more than 5000 images of...
John J King II
May 22, 20171 min read
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Wild Southeast Alaska: Lights, Camera, Action!
Spring in Southeast Alaska is signaled by rapidly increasing daylight, robust waterfalls from melting snow and seasonal rains as well as...
John J King II
May 6, 20171 min read
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Wild Places and Wild Things: 2016 in Review
Autumn is in full swing here on the elbow of Cape Cod and it is a time for transition for most observers of the marine natural world in...
John J King II
Dec 9, 20161 min read
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Wild Cape Cod Notebook: At the Equinox
The languid and steamy summer that we enjoyed on Cape Cod has transformed into cooler autumn weather pattern with ever more easterly...
John J King II
Sep 28, 20161 min read
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Wild Cape Cod Notebook: Summer - Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge and the Atlantic White Shark Conse
Summer is a siren that woos us on Cape Cod each year here into a state of contentment with warm breezes and sunny days and spectacular...
John J King II
Aug 24, 20161 min read
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Wild Southeast Alaska: Spring Abundance
During the spring each year an amazing natural spectacle unfolds in Southeast Alaska. Creatures as large as humpback whales and as small...
John J King II
Jun 12, 20161 min read
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Wild Patagonia: Of Condors and Cats
Fresh from an amazing expedition deep into the ice of Antarctica I hit the dock in Ushuaia, Argentina, head spinning, with one last...
John J King II
Apr 7, 20164 min read
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Antarctica: The End of the Earth
More than two years ago I learned that my friend Ted Cheeseman was planning to bring a team of mammal researchers led by Ari Friedlander...
John J King II
Apr 5, 20163 min read
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Wild Cape Cod Notebook: Winter Approaches
Our work with the Massachusetts White Shark population study is winding down with only a couple of weeks to go to the end of the field...
John J King II
Oct 21, 20152 min read
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Wild Cape Cod Notebook
The last six weeks of summer have been a blur of intense activity on the Outer Cape Cod area. Emotional highs and lows and the awe of...
John J King II
Sep 12, 20153 min read
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Close Encounters of the Shark Kind II
Heartfelt thanks to the Nickerson Art Gallery in Chatham, to all those who turned out for our reception last night and to those of you...
John J King II
Jul 12, 20151 min read
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North Atlantic Humpbacks in Winter
For the 4th consecutive year we made our way south out of the frigid New England winter to spend time with our friends at Aquatic...
John J King II
Feb 23, 20152 min read
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African Odyssey Unfolds
We= just wrapped up our field work on Cape Cod working with the Massachusetts White Shark Team as the cold winds of winter start to blow...
John J King II
Nov 11, 20143 min read
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Dream Team Adventure
Winter is coming to Cape Cod and the time has come to haul boats for storage until the spring. This is always a little bit sad for us....
John J King II
Nov 5, 20143 min read
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Down East at the Autumnal Equinox
We took a few days off from our work with the Massachusetts White Shark Research team to travel to Down East Maine and embrace the onset...
John J King II
Oct 2, 20142 min read
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Wild Cape Cod Notebook: Chasing the Last Dragons
A large male tagged earlier in the season is called Chex (nicknamed Darth Vader by the DMF Team). He is riddled with battle scars...
John J King II
Sep 20, 20143 min read
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Wild Cape Cod Notebook: Monomoy NWR
Hard to believe that the dog days of August have come and gone here on Cape Cod and we are welcoming that wonderful time of year known...
John J King II
Sep 2, 20142 min read
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Wild Cape Cod Notebook: Summer
The summer is now more than half over and the various activities in the wild world here on Cape Cod have been both numerous and exciting...
John J King II
Aug 18, 20141 min read
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