All posts in Creature Feature

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Creature Feature – Meet the Raven
December 2, 2025, No Comments

Whenever I hear the deep, rollicking croak of ravens flying overhead, I always stop what I’m doing to watch, because o ...

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Creature Feature – Animal Idioms
November 17, 2025, No Comments

“Sly as a fox;” “bull in a china shop;” “mad as a wet hen;” “big fish in a small pond;” “a little bird ...

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Creature Feature – Flying through Fall, Dropping into Winter
November 3, 2025, No Comments

Autumn finds various duck species migrating through the Southern Tier. Some are early fall migrants, while others linger ...

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Creature Feature – Raising the Alarm
November 3, 2025, No Comments

Woodland creatures are part of a living acoustical network, connected to one another by sound. The latest “news” tra ...

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Creature Feature – Reflecting the Seasons
October 23, 2025, No Comments

“To everything, turn, turn, turn There is a season, turn, turn, turn And a time to every purpose under heaven.” —T ...

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Creature Feature – Falling for Leaves
October 6, 2025, No Comments

Every leaf speaks bliss to me Fluttering from the autumn tree. —Emily Brontë The pinnacle of autumn is found in the c ...

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Creature Feature – Please Bee Kind
September 25, 2025, No Comments

Late summer and fall are a critical time period for bees. Colonies are at their peak population, meaning there are more ...

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Creature Feature – How Do They Know?
September 13, 2025, No Comments

Many of our feathered friends have already begun their autumn migration. Do you ever wonder how they know where to go? A ...

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Creature Feature – Late Summer Soundtrack
August 26, 2025, No Comments

Taking their cues from the shortening daylight, most songbirds have ceased singing. The quiet of late summer can be unse ...

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Creature Feature – Part of the Family
August 14, 2025, No Comments

I’ve never liked the phrase “owning a pet,” because I consider our pets family, rather than merely things we own. ...