
Backyard and Beyond: A black bear tale
Sometimes a photo is just as captivating for what it doesn’t show as for what it does. Case in point: Scott Thiede is a very patient photographer, sitting in a blind out in a field
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Sometimes a photo is just as captivating for what it doesn’t show as for what it does. Case in point: Scott Thiede is a very patient photographer, sitting in a blind out in a field

Nature goes into overdrive as summer begins to draw to a close: spiders hunt relentlessly for prey, young animals practice vital life skills, the avian world prepares for migration.
Consider the scene in David

Marguerite Eichelberger has been keeping an eye on a kestrel family on a friend’s property, enjoying the antics of the young falcons after fledging from their nest cavity. She was on hand to take photos

Mid-June was nesting season for our smallest heron, and Joanna Taylor snapped a photo near her pond, showing little green herons with their pointy beaks poking over the nest’s edge.
On the same day,

Reading about these unusual creatures, I was struck by how beneficial they are, consuming insects, worms, snakes, frogs, mice, fruit, berries, carrion, and just about anything else they can find.

Fuzzy little ducklings are swimming behind their mothers around lakes and ponds, learning to feed themselves and evade predators.

The American kestrel is our smallest falcon, and the species makes very good parents, often succeeding in raising five youngsters per season in tree holes and nest boxes.

Bob Hilbert isn’t often surprised by the diversity of wildlife that visits his backyard, living, as he does, on a property “grandfathered in” in a national forest.

Turns out that this mammal’s front teeth range in color from brown to yellow because the enamel is rich in iron. This makes its incisors hard and strong – necessary for an animal that can
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