You've no doubt heard the saying "it takes a village to raise a child." I know from personal experience how powerful a supportive community can be to human development. The concept also applies to ...

Old Man Winter has finally relaxed his grip on a landscape that's been frozen for, well, a long time. If that isn't enough good news, consider this: Tomorrow we will receive about four more minutes of ...

I participated in the iconic New Englander migration south to Florida during winter break last week. It hasn’t been a particularly cold winter, but it did feel good to be in the sun, and, even better ...

You still have time to erect nesting boxes for wood ducks to help the returning waterfowl. Early March is a good time to put up one or more wood duck nesting boxes in a yard or area, even if the spot ...

Few birds, in Ohio or anywhere else, can rival the drake wood duck for sheer gaudiness. It’s as if a team of great artists was commissioned to design and color the fowl. Rodin sculpted the graceful ...

With one small change in his life, a Bay Area resident has transformed the world around him. Instead of searching far and wide for the best of nature, Brian Murphy instead chose to create ...

Patti Edmonds of Naples looked through a spotting scope on the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary observation platform this week and saw something that has become a rarity. In the cypress trees on the other ...

It was an appealing scene, a prelude to spring. Eight wood ducks were swimming rapidly, purposefully, around and under bushes in a little stream. Then, more ducks paddled over from the other shoreline ...

I participated in the iconic New Englander migration south to Florida during winter break last week. It hasn’t been a particularly cold winter, but it did feel good to be in the sun, and, even better ...