I spent much of the summer transfixed by this year’s pair of phoebes who nested on the back porch as usual, and from a favorite low perch just across the way from there, launched themselves repeatedly into mid-air to catch insect after insect.
How do birds get their food, and what do they eat, anyway? Well that depends on the bird, and Ellen Blackstone of BirdNote.org has some answers. A million people a day and more than 200 radio markets hear the 2-minute public radio show called Bird Note, and now “BirdNote” is a book too, which Ellen edited.
It’s practically December, but like many gardeners I’m already thinking about spring. One big element of that thinking is how to maximize the power...
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The world is shifting focus again now toward opening up this time, several months after much shutting down. But as we do, I for...