Feast or famine for animals in the winter
Last weekend, the chickadees and nuthatches finally found the two bird feeders I filled several weeks ago. For birds, finding a full feeder is like…
Tag: Mammals
Sign Posts of the Forest
Wandering through the woods, I found a tree with claw marks scratched in the bark at eye-level and black hair stuck to once oozing sap.…
A great place to call home
Twilight was quickly fading as we drove south on Highway 95 after crossing the border at Eastport. As we descended down the hill by Brush…
Camouflage a means of survival
I catch a slight movement out of the corner of my eye and stop to scan the brushy slope. After a few seconds I spy…
What’s that protruding from your head?
Often I catch myself using the terms antler and horn interchangeably, such as “I’m going horn hunting”, even though I know they are different. One…
Howling at the moon reveals coyote’s presence
As the light fades over the alfalfa field, the nighttime serenade begins with a long call, then a tremolo of howling. With all the howling…
Incredible, edible cattails
A common sight in any shallow water around the Kootenai Valley is stands of cattails. They line irrigation ditches, lake-shores, swamps and the majority of…
White-tailed deer a far ranging species
Grazing in fields in early morning, seeking shelter in the woods during mid-day, browsing in city parks in the evening and crossing highways at night,…
How to Identify a Grizzly Bear versus Black Bear
After spotting a bear in the basin below Goat Mountain on the State Line, I pulled out my binoculars to take a closer look. Even…
Baby animals can be born helpless or ready to follow mom
From downy ducklings to wobbly moose calves, the animal kingdom is diverse in the ways baby animals come into this world. Some animals are born…
The Incredible World of Animal Flight
To soar like an eagle, hover like a hummingbird or dart through the trees like a chickadee would be incredible. In the past one hundred…
What’s behind an antler’s shape?
When stumbling upon a shed antler, figuring out who left it behind is usually easy. Moose have large, palmate antlers with numerous tines. White-tailed deer…
Sign Posts of the Forest
Wandering through the woods, I found a tree with claw marks scratched in the bark at eye-level and black hair stuck to once oozing sap.…
A great place to call home
Twilight was quickly fading as we drove south on Highway 95 after crossing the border at Eastport. As we descended down the hill by Brush…
Camouflage a means of survival
I catch a slight movement out of the corner of my eye and stop to scan the brushy slope. After a few seconds I spy…
What’s that protruding from your head?
Often I catch myself using the terms antler and horn interchangeably, such as “I’m going horn hunting”, even though I know they are different. One…
Howling at the moon reveals coyote’s presence
As the light fades over the alfalfa field, the nighttime serenade begins with a long call, then a tremolo of howling. With all the howling…
Incredible, edible cattails
A common sight in any shallow water around the Kootenai Valley is stands of cattails. They line irrigation ditches, lake-shores, swamps and the majority of…
White-tailed deer a far ranging species
Grazing in fields in early morning, seeking shelter in the woods during mid-day, browsing in city parks in the evening and crossing highways at night,…
How to Identify a Grizzly Bear versus Black Bear
After spotting a bear in the basin below Goat Mountain on the State Line, I pulled out my binoculars to take a closer look. Even…
Baby animals can be born helpless or ready to follow mom
From downy ducklings to wobbly moose calves, the animal kingdom is diverse in the ways baby animals come into this world. Some animals are born…
The Incredible World of Animal Flight
To soar like an eagle, hover like a hummingbird or dart through the trees like a chickadee would be incredible. In the past one hundred…
What’s behind an antler’s shape?
When stumbling upon a shed antler, figuring out who left it behind is usually easy. Moose have large, palmate antlers with numerous tines. White-tailed deer…