
Backyard and Beyond: The sweetest season
Young creatures are breaking out of eggs, popping out of dens, or heading to water. For Steve Boe, this season of renewal meant encountering a curious young fox who kept an eye on him walking
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Young creatures are breaking out of eggs, popping out of dens, or heading to water. For Steve Boe, this season of renewal meant encountering a curious young fox who kept an eye on him walking

Jerry Davis was driving on a service road through a large wetland when he noticed a sandhill crane turning its eggs on the nest. Sandhills share incubation duties during the day as one parent goes

Scott Thiede has been keeping an eye on the fox den in his urban neighborhood, and recently caught a parent watching over one of its six kits. The little one was gnawing on a piece

Teresa Phillips was hunting morel mushrooms in a local woodland when she came across an Eastern box turtle hiding in the leaves. These handsome, high-domed turtles are known to be energetic walkers, moving, head up,

Ponds are open again, bringing beaver clans out to find fresh food and bask in the warmth.
Lew Troast Jr. watches a lodge in a pond not far from home and came across an

Stately great blue herons are some of the earliest birds to migrate back from their winter homes – in my area, they reliably return around St. Patrick’s Day, often encountering waterways still covered by ice.

Bill Manuell went out to check his maple traps and spotted a bobcat crouched below a tree at the edge of the woods on his property, apparently on the hunt. But then he looked up

When Tim King and family visit their cabin in the springtime, they have to remember to put a bag over their parked vehicle’s rearview mirror. The reason: It’s mating season in the bird world, and

Dick Dennie’s trail camera snapped two foxes “meeting in a wintery woods,” as he wrote, echoing the famous Robert Frost poem.
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