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Reporter As I write this article from my study, I am staring up at a deer mount that was arrowed in the 1950s by my friend, Ralph Bell. He harvested the little buck in the same neighborhood in which I ...
The decorating of an evergreen tree at Christmas ... little birds are very appropriate for the symbolism and dried plants and fruits. The idea of jolly Santas, elves, Christmas puppies in socks ...
BENSONOUR first meeting of the new WI year (April to March) was very well attended with all members returning for another year along with five new ones. The meeting began with a talk by Sally and Paul ...
Two recent scientific studies estimate that billions of birds die from collisions with sheet glass each year in the U.S. alone.
Case in point: Our home in Northbrook is now surrounded by nesting birds. These include a family of robins nesting atop a ...
When ripe, birds gobble up the delicious berries in days. Juneberries, sometimes called serviceberries, are deciduous trees native to all of Canada and most of the U.S. In the wild, it’s not ...
Or perhaps not. We should know before Christmas. Birds are migrating across borders right now by the billions, as warblers, tanagers, orioles, thrushes, flycatchers, cuckoos, grosbeaks and many ...
A video capturing a cat lounging on a tree branch while a bird plucks fur ... "helping today," outdoor cats can pose a major threat to birds and their chicks. Internet users were fascinated ...