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A few days ago, I heard an barred owl calling “Who cooks for you” in the woods at James River Park’s Pony Pasture Rapids section.
This past Saturday at Pony Pasture, I ran into local birder Larry Lynch, who showed me a great-horned owl there.
The woods in winter can look brown and dead, but if you look in the right places, you can find plenty of life.
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Today’s installment of the James River Journal centers on Rodgers Green, a Gloucester County waterman who has been fishing for oysters since he was a teenager.
To get up with Green and his friend and fishing companion Billy Lett, photographer Kevin Morley and I recently left Richmond about 4:30 a.m. to head to Newport News. We all got on the water before sunrise, which is when the men can begin tonging for oysters.
If you haven’t seen the other installments of the series, please go back and take a look. Our November story looked at the river through the eyes of photographer David Everette, who has been shooting the James in Richmond since the 1970s.
Our December story looked at people who like to fish in winter.
Everette liked to shoot at sunrise, so that story also involved some early mornings. The fishing story included a evening in a boat in a driving rain.
At some point I hope these river trip start becoming fun.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch is running a year-long series called the James River Journal. Each month, we will bring you a different story about the James and the people or wildlife that frequent it.
The first story ran in November. The last one will run this October. Our aim is to turn the Journal into a calendar for 2010.
While most of our stories will center on the James in the Richmond area, others could touch on any point in the 347-mile-long river.
We have a number of ideas for stories, but we would also like to hear your suggestions. Do you know a James River tale that would interest the general public? Do you know an interesting place, person or animal along the river?
To give us a story idea, or to just check in, please email us at .
