Tamra Wight

ChiIdren's Author ~ Cooper and Packrat series @islandportbooks ~ rep'd by Katie Erickson @JDLitAgency

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@LynnPlourde Ha! That's tooo funny!

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Tamra's Summer Words and Wildlife Newsletter. https://t.co/sryka7IMxl

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My summer Words & Wildlife Newsletter is out. In it, I talk about losing & finding my muse during the last 5 months. There's tons of wildlife photos too. A full version link is in the comments below.

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@tavaresbooks @kbport714 @100scopenotes It's beautiful!!

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@ElliottBlackwe3 Thank you, for comforting them. ♥️

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My Jan newsletter is out! Here's some teaser pics~

In it- Why I❤️winter photography, a otter stalking story, & info on how LOST LYNX went from a spring to winter setting thanks to a FL class.

Sign up for my newsletter using my bio website link.

#winteradventures #MGauthor

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@MoonbeamAwards Very nice

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Guess what? Chickadee butt!

Of the 7 chickadee species in North America, which do you see most? This one is a black-capped chickadee - they're the most widespread chickadee species, found in Alaska, much of Canada and the northern half of the lower 48.

📷 Courtney Celley/USFWS

[Sandra Boynton @SandyBoynton]

Snowing wildly here in New England, so it's time to bring you SNOW, SNOW, SNOW! I premiered this upbeat doo-wop video two years ago, and to my astonishment it went kind of crazy. It was a remote collaboration w/ my phenomenally musical friend Michael Ford: Mike sang all the parts and played the instruments, I wrote the words & melody and drew the art, and then we finessed it all jointly. The track is on our new great-for-all-ages Christmas album, COWS AND HOLLY. Happy snow day & Merry Christmas!

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@SandyBoynton @LynnPlourde Love this!! ❤️ Especially on a snow day!

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We had nesting eagles move in about 1999-ish to our little corner of Maine and they flourished! Year after year they raised two eaglets. In 2012, they had triplets! And all three survived!

[U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service @USFWS]

The bald eagle comeback is still one of the coolest conservation stories.

In 1963, the total population of bald eagles was down to 417 nesting pairs.

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Whoa!

[Capturing Captiva @Captiva_Blog]

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@melostrom Thank you!!

[U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service @USFWS]

Adult porcupines have about 30,000 quills that help keep them safe from predators, but that's not their only defense - porcupines also have a strong body odor!

📷 Courtney Celley/USFWS

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@LynnPlourde Thank you for the update Lynn!

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My wooly caterpillars here in Maine agree!

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8 out of 9 woolly bear caterpillars agree it will be a mild winter. Severe or mild, they'll all be frozen solid under leaf litter anyway. In the spring, these caterpillars will thaw out, pupate within cocoons and emerge as adult Isabella tiger moths.

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@KateMessner @POTUS @FLOTUS @MacKidsBooks Yaaaaay!! Congratulations!!!

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@sshanning28 here are some more fun outside writing activities to add to our toolkit for the next time we write outside!

[katemessner @KateMessner]

Happy National Day on Writing! I'm thrilled to be the Author Ambassador for @writingproject's Write Out, an initiative to get us outdoors with our notebooks.

Heading outside to write with your class this week? Here are some great writing prompts to get you started!
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Have you ever seen a painted turtle in the process of shedding its scutes? Painted turtles periodically shed their outer keratin shell layer in large scale-like pieces. (Keratin is the same "stuff" that make up fingernails) Other species, shed in smaller, flake-sized pieces.