Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat: It’s the Great Backyard Bird Count!
IT’S THE WEEKEND for the Great Backyard Bird Count, one of the largest citizen-science projects for species tracking in the
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February 2, Not Just for Groundhogs, Well, Ever
Why all the fuss about whether or not this rodent sees his shadow? February 2 isn’t “just” Groundhog Day and
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Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat: Attract Birds With Homemade Treat Cakes
THIS POST IS the most popular in the Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat series, and one of the most popular on
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Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat: Join in the Christmas Bird Count
AS PART OF maintaining our Backyard Wildlife Habitats we widen our scope to the urban, suburban and rural areas around
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Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat: Bad Weather Birds
I’D BE REMISS if I didn’t keep Cat TV up and running, even in cold and snowy weather. Not only
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Rescue Story: Cookie’s Homecoming Day
On December 9, 1992, during a heavy storm of snow and ice, a little neighbor boy brought me a kitten
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Daily Photo: Mimi Gives the Snow Another Try
“Okay, so I’m here! Now will you make it stop?” After initially turning right around and heading for the furnace
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Memories at the Picnic Table
Memories build on their own around the most common everyday things in our lives, and we don’t even realize until
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Rescue Story: Murphy, and the Happy Entanglement of Rescue
This story brings together details from several other rescue stories I’ve written including Cookie and the woman in the blue
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Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat: Fall Cleanup, Bird Feeding and Fleas
So what do these three topics have in common? It’s time to start cleaning up the excess in the yard,
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