THE APPEARANCE of dark-eyed juncos is often thought of as a harbinger of winter’s onset. They appear here in northern New England late in the fall. Their slate upper coloring
NOVEMBER IN northern New England is a season of change. The visual changes are clear: leaves fall off trees and the landscape transforms from being veiled in greenery to gradually
ONE RECENT morning I walked from the house to the barn, perhaps 100 yards, and heard several birds. None of them were visible. I turned around (much to the horse’s
MANY READERS likely remember the Great Squirrel Apocalypse of 2018. Squirrels were seen dead by the hundreds along highways as they searched for food far and wide. Boaters spotted squirrels