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Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat

Giuseppe supervises my veterinarian finishing the rabies certificates with their tags after our whole-house exam.

September 25, 2015 Bernadette

World Rabies Day September 28: Rabies in Your Back Yard

The photo above is from last autumn. While I’ve always been aware that we shared our little habitat with raccoons

The chipmunk plans her attack on the bird feeder.

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September 5, 2015 Bernadette

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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August 15, 2015 Bernadette

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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July 18, 2015 Bernadette

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

Mimi is looking forward to lots of mornings patroling the yard.

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June 27, 2015 Bernadette

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

Namir is perfectly camouflaged, of course; most of these leaves are Virginia creeper, but can you see the poison ivy?

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June 6, 2015 Bernadette

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!

black cat in Mimi walks through the buttercups and forget-me-nots.

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May 16, 2015 Bernadette

Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat: Begin in Spring to Control Fleas

FLEAS, LIKE MOST OTHER INSECTS, live everywhere around us and it’s how we manage our surroundings that helps to control

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May 2, 2015 Bernadette

Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat: Why Dandelions Are Essential

I POSTED THIS on my photo blog Today and it had a wonderful reception from readers. It occurred to me

The bird bath in the shade garden © 2010 B.E. Kazmarski

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March 14, 2015 Bernadette

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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February 15, 2015 Bernadette

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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