THROUGH THE WOODS: Thank you to those who served
THIS MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND there will be parades and barbecues and family celebrations and the drum beats penetrate our souls. I have been in so many […]
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THROUGH THE WOODS: Some facts about wild turkeys
SPRING IS IN THE AIR and wild turkeys are really getting into the annual mating season. I have handsome toms looking like puffed-up ads for Thanksgiving, […]
Spring cleaning at the historical society
CANAAN – From the complete skeleton of a rat to loads of bat guano, Dodie Gearing and John Rivard have begun a complete cleaning and reorganization […]
THROUGH THE WOODS: Birds and birders on the move
This is a wonderful time of the year. Last Saturday I was sitting on my porch and the first ruby-throated hummingbird of the season arrived. He […]
THROUGH THE WOODS: LBJs of the bird world
IN THE PAST FEW WEEKS, we have had an influx of birds coming up from the south with new ones arriving daily. One of the most […]
THROUGH THE WOODS: Shad
ONE OF THE LOVELY SIGNS of spring is the shad tree, also called downy serviceberry, shadblow, juneberry, shadbush, sarvis-tree or serviceberry, Saskatoon, shadwood, sugarplum or wild-plum. […]
THROUGH THE WOODS: Columbia County lemmings?
HARD TO BELIEVE, but we do have small rodents related to lemmings. One of the abundant members of this group is voles. I threw a handful […]
THROUGH THE WOODS: The phoebes are back
SPRING MIGRANTS CONTINUE to pour into our area and the air is filled with the happy sounds of birds singing everywhere. Some of our yard birds […]
THROUGH THE WOODS: Skunk cabbage
SKUNK CABBAGE IS A VERY INTERESTING and unusual plant and goes by several names including clumpfoot cabbage, foetid pothos, meadow cabbage, polecat weed, or swamp gabbage. […]
