Time to fill the bird feeders for winter
Match your favorite birds to their favorite foods and feeders to ensure an enjoyable winter feeding season.
Conservation by the numbers
Preliminary results from a recent survey show 40 percent of the U.S. population enjoyed some form of wildlife-related recreation in 2016.
Keeping animals out of the house isn’t easy
When you live in the midst of woods and old fields, critters often stop by unexpectedly.
Meet some common spiders
Blooming goldenrod is turning old fields into oceans of yellow. And orb-weaving spiders are hard to miss in these very same fields.
You should really watch ‘Chasing Ice’
Directed by Jeff Orlowski, written by Mark Malone, and backed by National Geographic, Chasing Ice shows irrefutable evidence that global climate change.
Get your feet wet to spot the elusive rail
Rails, gallinules, and coots live amid the dense vegetation that surrounds lakes, swamps, and marshes. Most species are seldom noticed.
Prepare now for the arrival of blue jays
If you love blue jays, offer whole, in-shell peanuts. As long as peanuts are available, jays keep coming.
Good opportunity for tagging Monarchs
Much of what we know about monarch migration originates with the citizen science program called Monarch Watch.
Notice the sights and sounds of summer
Learn more about the chorus of insects whose songs fill summer nights, and the end-of-season sights yet to be seen.
Lost bird rediscovered in the jungle of Venezuela
Researchers working deep in the forests of Venezuela rediscovered the Tachira Antpitta, a brown bird not seen since it was first recorded in the 1950s.
