Like many in the Northland, I maintain bird feeders throughout winter. Spending money on bird food seems very worth it when I can look out on a subzero morning and watch the antics of these avian ...

"Winter weather can be hard on Illinois wildlife, which is why so many folks around here put out feed for birds and animals," ...

The owl is nocturnal with keen senses of sight and sound. It sees through the shadows of the night and hears the sounds in the silence; the illusion of the darkness.” – Anonymous Winter evenings and ...

It held together as snow built up inside the bowl, and we often saw chickadees “bathing” in the snow-bowl, much as birds in ...

Rachael Stuckey gets more than a few double takes when she takes her two pet skunks to Home Depot or stops by the Starbucks drive-through for a pup cup.

Flying squirrels, gliding frogs ... are so smooth — there’s no discontinuity or noise in their motions, they’re just totally surfing in the air,” Robert Dudley, a professor of integrative ...

Vulture effigies or loud noises could be ways to scare them off ... possums, skunks, raccoons, squirrels, a number of wild ...

The out-of-doors, similarly, can be filled with silence. On a calm day our winter world can be impressively, or perhaps oppressively, quiet. The snow dampens the sound and, given that most people are ...

I wanted off the tourist track, and these unique bungalows, set amid a canopy home to butterflies, iridescent birds, and ...