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- THE PIEDMONT NATURALIST -
Volume One--1986

This section contains selected reprints and abridgements of The Piedmont Naturalist, a newspaper column and book written by Bill Hilton Jr. and with emphasis on nature happenings at Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History.

Volume One was published in 1987 by Hilton Pond Press but is now out of print. Copies may be available from various on-line sources, including eBay and AbeBooks.

Dedication Page

Author's Acknowledgements

Foreword

Preface

01--The Piedmont Naturalist: An Introduction (6 Apr 1986)

02--Red Clay: Legacy of 300 Years of Poor Farming Practices (13 Apr)

03--Phenology: The Study of Change (27 Apr)

04--Tent Caterpillars Versus the Black Cherry (04 May)

05--Black Ratsnakes: Live and Let Live (11 May)

06--Banding the Spring Migrant Birds (18 May)

07--The Bees and the Bicycle (25 May)

08--Leave Baby Birds Alone (01 Jun)

09--Jug-o-Rum: Call of the Amorous Bullfrog (08 Jun)

10--Mosquitos vs. the Mosquito Fish (15 Jun)

11--Blackberries: True Food of the Gods (22 Jun)

12--Trumpet Creepers & Hummingbird Bills (29 June)

13--Hummingbirds: Indicators of Tropical Trouble (06 Jul)

14--Bats In My Belfry (13 Jul)

15--Carolina Wrens: A Lesson in Persistence (20 Jul)

16--Down With Lawns! (27 Jul)

17--Brown-headed Cowbirds: Avian Social Parasites (03 Aug)

18--Sex Life of the Red-eyed Turtle (10 Aug)

19--Cicadas: The Sounds of Piedmont Summer (17 Aug)

20--Decomposers Ain't So Bad (24 Aug)

21--The Elegant Waders (31 Aug)

22--Flood at Hilton Pond (07 Sep)

23--Bess Beetles: Masters of Decomposition (14 September)

24--DYC's: Bane of the Botanist (21 Sep)

25--Goldenrods: Too Attractive to Cause Hayfever (28 Sep)

26--Confusing Fall Warblers (05 Oct)

27--Golden Orb Weavers (12 Oct)

28--The "Alligator" of the Piedmont (19 Oct)

29--Puckery, Pleasurable Persimmons (26 Oct)

30--Hawk Mountain Pilgrimage (02 Nov)

31--Bird Magicians Can't Be Bought (09 Nov)

32--Loss of the American Chestnut (16 Nov)

33--Don't Cut that Snag! (23 Nov)

34--The Mast Crop (30 Nov)

35--How to Build a Bird Feeder (7 Dec)

36--Carolina Sandhills Christmas Bird Count (14 Dec)

37--The Big Boy's Christmas Tree (21 Dec)

38--Broomsedge (28 Dec)

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