The Curious Autodidact

Today I was talking near a neighbor’s house when I found on the largest paper wasp nest I have ever seen situated on an electrical transformer. I stopped to ask her if she’d seen it and she admitted she had not. Then she asked me how in the world I’d manage to spot it. I thought about this Boing Boing article about pole watching I’d recently read called A Beginner’s Guide to Pole Watching that gave me a whole new appreciation of these previously maligned view pollution.