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1. Sticky Feet
August 27, 2017
Tree frogs. We hear them, but rarely see them up close. With over 800 species of arboreal states, they certainly are prolific and diverse. And guess what? Not all the tree frog family Hylidae even live in trees! Tree frogs are climbers however, thanks to their unique feet. The last bone is cla...
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2. Bull Frogging
July 11, 2017
In the summer, just around dusk, a chorus of frogs begin to vocalize on Webster Lake. In our cove, a deep bass voice, much like the roar of a bull, chimes in after the others are in full voice. This singer is the American bullfrog or simply bullfrog, as most of us call it. A familiar amphibious f...
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3. Chucking Wood
June 16, 2017
Woodchucks belong to the marmot (large ground squirrel) family and goes by a variety of names- groundhog, thickwood Badger, monax, wood-shock, whistler, whistlepig (due to a warning sound made through their big front teeth), moonack, weenusk, red monk and in our family – PEST! Found throughout Nort...
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4. Squirrely Days
May 12, 2017
There are times when it feels like the squirrels in our yard are just as much a part of our family as our pets. Seldom do we look out our window or walk around our property, without a couple of squirrels scampering nearby. They race across our deck and railings. They dig relentlessly in our flow...
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5. Starting to Pop
April 10, 2017
When the soil temperature hits 50 to 58 degrees, some of our favorite Spring mushrooms will start to pop. Throughout the United States, except for a handful of southern states that are just too warm and dry, the Morel mushroom is about ready to harvest. As the soil temperature rises above 50 degre...
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6. Snow Robins
March 20, 2017
Look, there is a robin in the backyard tugging on a long and juicy looking earthworm. Spring must be right around the corner. Roaming around in the backyard is an American robin, easily spotted by its brown back and reddish-orange breast. The bill, presently being used to hold onto that worm, is...
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7. Look Out, Mergansers Passing Through
March 03, 2017
Daytime temperatures are starting to rise. Spring is returning to New England. Slowly but surely, the open water works its way back into the cove. As the ice line recedes, more and more water fowl start to visit again. This is certainly a great time on the lake, as hibernating species come back ...
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8. Where Do Turtles Go?
February 14, 2017
Where do turtles go once the cold weather returns and ice forms over the surface of the water? Do you know? There is something about turtles most of us adore. Kids love them and often have them for pets. There are at least 263 species of freshwater and terrestrial turtles. Most of these turtle...
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9. Feathered Friends Are Welcomed
January 26, 2017
A brown speckled wren wiggles its way in and out of the screened suet feeder. Every now and then he flies over to the deck railing, shakes his head to remove the fat from his rather long beak and then makes his way back to the suet. Overlooking this wren, are twenty-eight mourning doves perched in...
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10. Limpy the Mallard
January 08, 2017
Last spring a female mallard decided to turn our deck flower pot, tucked under an overhang, into her nursery. Nesting is a stressful and tiresome period for the female mallard, as she lays more than half her body weight in eggs. We counted 11 eggs in her clutch that were incubated for 28 days and ...
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