Kieran's Critters
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Freelance Artist |
| Location | Pennsylvania, United States |
| Introduction | I always seem to find creatures wherever I go— bugs, amphibians, reptiles, all sorts of animals & creepy crawlies! I can stroll through a small local park & with minimal effort discover 5 types of salamanders & 2 types of snakes! I can be at a diner & in the run off stream besides the parking lot I can identify 3 species of fish & 2 species of frogs! In Central Park in Manhattan I observed aquatic turtles. By a drainage ditch near a pizzeria in NJ I discovered Green Frogs! On the walls of an apartment complex in Fort Lauderdale I observed brown anoles! I was once visiting some friends in a highly developed section of suburban Massachusetts who assured me that their perfectly manicured grounds harbored no wildlife whatsoever! Yet beneath a forgotten pool liner under their back porch I discovered 2 beautiful marbled salamanders. This is what my blog is all about. It’s a collection of my nature discoveries whether made on planned wilderness excursions or just while wondering around here & there. Welcome to Kieran’s Critters! |
| Interests | Amphibians, Amphisbaenians, Aquariums, Aquatic insects, Armadillos, Art, Axolotl, Batrachology, Bats, Biology, Birds, Botany, Butterflies, Caecilians, Crawdads, Crayfish, Crustaceans, Cryptozoology, Dragonflies, Entomology, Fence Lizards, Fireflies, Fish, Fossils, Frogs, Gastropods, Hedgehogs, Herptiles, Herpetology, Hummingbirds, Invertebrates, Kazoos, Lizards, Mammals, Mice, Mollusks, Moths, Music, Nature, Newts, Nonsense, Ornithology, Paleontology, Photography, Pigeons, Poetry, Pollywogs, Possums, Reptiles, Salamanders, Shrews, Skinks, Snakes, Squamata, Stridulation, Tadpoles, Terrapins, Toads, Tortoises, Turtles, Wildlife, Zoology. For some reason NOT VERY INTERESTED in Bearded Dragons, Boa Constrictors, Leopard Geckos, Pythons and Sea Turtles. NO INTEREST IN SPORTS! |
| Favorite Movies | Allegro Non Troppo, American Pop, Battle Royale, Being There, Blade Runner, Edward Scissorhands, Fantastic Planet, Gone With The Wind, Heavy Medal, Nosferatu, 9, Oh God, Raiders of The Lost Ark, The Return of the Pink Panther, Smokey And The Bandit, Snoopy Come Home, Star Wars, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Jungle Book, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Plague Dogs, The Wrath Of Khan, Twice Upon A Time, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Watership Down, When The Wind Blows, Zelig |
| Favorite Music | TOO MUCH TO LIST!, Albert Ammons, Vernel Bagneris, Balaban & Cats, Black Swan Classic Jazz Band, Count Basie, Bix Beiderbecke, Cab Calloway, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band, Duke Ellington, The Flying Neutrinos, Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks, Benny Goodman, Vince Guaraldi, Annette Hanshaw, Henry's Bootblacks, The Hot Cotton Jazz Band, The Hot Potatoes Jazz Band, Hot Antic Jazz Band, Kazoophony, Kustbandet, The Jim Kweskin Jug Band, Carol Leigh, Henry Mancini, Red McKenzie and his Mound City Blue Blowers, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, The Moonlighters, Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions, Turk Murphy, Original Klezmer Jazz Band, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Leon Redbone, Red Rose Ragtime Band, Barbara Rosene, Andy Schumm and his Gang, Raymond Scott, Stuff Smith, The Smith Street Society Jazz Band, The South Frisco Jazz Band, The Sunshine Skiffle Band, Alphonso Trent and His Orchestra, Tuba Skinny, The Vogel Brothers, Fats Waller, Waring's Pennsylvanians, Paul Whiteman, Yerba Buena Stompers, I DESPISE RAP!! |
| Favorite Books | A Natural History of New York City by John Kieran (1982), Animals as Friends and How To Keep Them by Margaret Shaw and James Fisher (1939), Biocentrism by Robert Lanza and Bob Berman (2010), Encyclopedia of Turtles by Dr. Peter C.H. Pritchard (1979), Field Book of Ponds and Streams by Ann Haven Morgan PH.D. (1930), Handbook of Reptiles and Amphibians of Florida: Part 2 by Ray E. Ashton Jr. and Patricia Sawyer Ashton (1985), Our Native Fishes by John R. Quinn (1990), Our Small Native Animals: Their Habits and Care by Robert Snedigar (1963), Reptiles and Amphibians Of the Poconos and Northeastern Pennsylvania by John Serrao (2000), Salamanders of the United States and Canada by James W. Petranka (2010), The Chronicles of Roundy by Kieran Vogel (2012), The Mammals of Northeastern Pennsylvania by John Serrao (2005), The Natural Pocono Mountains by John Serrao (2006), The Self-Aware Universe by Amit Goswami (1995), The Year Of The Turtle by David M. Carroll (1991), Wild Creatures of Garden and Hedgerow by Frances Pitt (1920), Wildlife of Orchard and Field by Ernest Ingersoll (1902) |