Front Cover: Wolf in snow. Photo © Holly Kuchera/Dreamstime.com. Back cover: Caption This Black Bear. Photo © Dreamstime.com.
2021, 03, March
Celebrate Seeds
2020 Christmas Bird Count – 154 species
In Our Skies, March 2021, Lyrid Meteor Shower
As long as the sky is clear, there’s rarely a bad time to be out under the stars. A telescope or even a binocular can reveal scores of galaxies, nebulas, and star clusters, if you know just where to...
The Great Conjunction: Saturn and Jupiter
Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. Photo © Morris Yoder. Jupiter and Saturn appear to pass each other in the sky about once every twenty years. When this happens, astronomers call it a great...
Showered With Seeds
Photo © Guppyss/Dreamstime.com As I sat in my garden, watching bumblebees hard at work, I felt a spray on my back. It didn’t feel like water, more like grains of rice. I turned around and was...
Fascinating Frogs
Abundance of young tadpole in pond water. Photo © Hanbr/iStockPhoto.com “What is that?” questioned one of my students. In an instant, more students were crowded around my desk, staring at a shallow...
Exploring Nature, Spring
Photo © Kevin Shank Skunk cabbage is in bloom late winter and early spring.Woodcocks begin doing their courtship displays.Mid-to-late March grizzlies come out of hibernation.400,000-600,000 Sandhill...
You Can Draw a Wolf Lesson
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Birding Bounties
American Kestrel. Photo © Brian Kushner/Dreamstime.com As I drove home from doing my uncle’s chores, I kept noticing less-than-ordinary birds winging overhead. The day already promised to be warmer...
Wondernose: What Animal has a Tail Like a Pig’s and Wears a Black Cap on its Head?
Some pigs carry their tails in a distinct curl. Our mystery animal doesn’t do that. It’s just the tail’s appearance that’s like a pig’s—short and sometimes curly, with thin hair. As for that “black...
Our Christmas Bird Count…and a Thousand Cranes!
My fingers tingled in the ten-degree wind as I pointed and counted rapidly. “Sixty-nine, seventy, seventy-one!” I calculated quickly and whispered in amazement, “That makes six hundred one in less...
Any New Birds?
It just feels like snow out here, I thought. Low-hanging gray clouds filled the sky like an oppressive blanket. Not a breath of air stirred the few maple leaves scattered on the ground. Even the...
