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The Creaking Season

Think back to fall. We started spending more time inside, but talked (happily) about the crisp air, holidays and family gatherings. It’s always a sentimental season. Now, that crisp air that dries out everything but our floor mats,...

Morning Read: The North Country’s war against the goose continues

Canada geese have been a problem for communities across the North Country for years. Last year, Saranac Lake’s high school called off an effort to round up and destroy a gaggle of birds that had settled on sports fields, after some residents...

For the birds

We raise laying hens and, occasionally, turkeys on our farm. Last year, we kept a few turkeys after the fall sell off: a tom and four hens, hoping to hatch some of our own turkey chicks. Finally, one of the Narragansetts wandered down the road,...

Spring myopic

From a morning walk in my tiny corner of the north country, signs of the new season–spring–just before Barb talked about summer-like temperatures. There were lots of sounds, too–including snipe calls, which makes me think of the...

UPDATE: Up close with the heron family

UPDATE: another egg (that makes two!) this morning, and new greenery adorning the nest. This is too good not to share. During our special “Spring” call-in Tuesday, Curt Stager and I heard of early season sightings of Great Blue Herons...

News stories tagged with "birds"

Less Mowing Protects Ground-Nesting Birds

by The Environment Report

Jun 12, 2001 — Wildlife experts are urging landowners and road maintenance crews to delay mowing roadsides. Mowing kills many grassland birds by destroying nests. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium's Lester Graham reports. Go to full article

Natural Selections: Hawkowls

by Natural Selections

May 31, 2001 — Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager discuss hawkowls, a very rare arctic visitor to the Adirondacks. This daytime predator differs in many ways from its more temperate cousins. Go to full article

A Spring Morning Walk, With Birds

by Brian Mann

May 30, 2001 — Brian Mann takes an early morning spring walk in the woods, and found dozens of kinds of birds that call the mountains home. Go to full article

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