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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The Joy of Pets: Adopting Again After Loss
Today is Pet Memorial Sunday and later I’ll be assisting with and speaking about adopting again after loss at Chartiers
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Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat: National Wildlife Day
Note: The actual day was yesterday, September 4, but close enough to my usual day to write about wildlife—plus I
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Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat: Put Bird Feeders Out Now for Migrants
BIRDS ARE BEGINNING to migrate now, and while most people feed birds through the winter it’s not a bad idea
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Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat: What Else is In Your Backyard, The Fauna That Fill It
This is the third in a series of four articles about considering your backyard wildlife habitat. One lovely August morning
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Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat: What’s Growing in Your Backyard?
THINGS ARE SPROUTING every minute out there in your yard, so it’s time to get out there and get to
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Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat: Sweet and Sour in Summer, Poison Ivy!
Itch. Itch. Scratch scratch. Scratch scratch scratch scratch scratch DIG DIG—aaaggghhh! No, it’s not your cat or dog, it’s you!
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Daily Photo: The Catbird
There’s a BIRD that sounds like a CAT and it’s RIGHT OUTSIDE THE WINDOW. It’s making a heck of a
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Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat: An Introduction
THIS IS THE first in a series of articles on building your backyard wildlife habitat and explains just what this
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Daily Photo: Bella’s New Obsession
Squirrel. Squirrel for a snack. Squirrel for dinner. Squirrel for breakfast. Bella sits transfixed, barely breathing, making plans, figures there
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