Wandering Whitetails
There hasn’t been much going on here at Discovering Nature. We’ve been kept inside by sickness and weather. But occasionally the outdoors comes to us, especially in the form of deer — seen here across...
View ArticleFirst day of spring
Someone told me recently that when the maple buds swell, maple syrup season is over. It’s definitely colder this year than it was on the first day of spring last year. I recorded the sights from this...
View ArticlePontius Pileated Comes to Call
This fellow is a little bigger than our usual feeder visitors! Too big to get a good grip, as it turns out. Makes me want to rig up a different suet cage and see if he’ll come back… What a fun sight to...
View ArticleSpring feeder visitors
I was beginning to worry that something had happened to our male rose-breasted grosbeak. We’ve never NOT had a grosbeak — at least one — in the 13 years we’ve lived here. But though I’d seen the...
View ArticleGray Day Grosbeak
Such a handsome bird. We have two grosbeaks out back. Maybe it’s a territorial thing, but one of them seems to be singing nonstop. He sang all day Saturday. He sang all afternoon yesterday. He started...
View ArticleFour-legged feeder visitor
I saw this gray fox one evening out by our bird feeder and it ran away. I figured it was hunting for an unwary ground-feeding bird. But the next morning it reappeared, and it was eating the bird seed...
View ArticleBack Yard
I love having an active back yard. Our dining room table sits beside a 12-foot window, and without fail a glance out back reveals creaturely activity of some kind: birds, foxes, woodchucks, rabbits,...
View ArticleBean there, done that
This little rabbit loves to hide out in our beans. They are a perfect cover, and the fence that we erected to keep him and his kin out is in all probability a nice protection against the neighborhood...
View ArticleGoldfinches
They’re like falling stars in the back yard — bright fluffs of yellow with dramatic black accents. The volunteer sunflower patch that grew beneath our bird feeder looks pretty rag tag, but this is when...
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