Yesterday was sunny and gorgeous and not all that cold, so I headed out for my first dedicated woods walk in a public park since moving to O...

Paul and I had a mini-vacation in Niagara Falls this past weekend. We'd each visited this place when we were little, but neither of us h...

We've been getting some really big flocks of Common Grackles here recently (I'm talking more than a thousand birds at a time), and t...

I was just thinking how strange it was that we hadn't seen any snakes in our yard yet, and then yesterday afternoon I opened our front d...

It's getting downright chilly outside now, but last week's weather was wonderfully sunny and warm, and I came across several cool cr...