In Forest and Field

It was a truly lovely evening for the last week of summer: clear, cool, with a gentle breeze. So back to the nearest beaver pond I went hopi...

The day dawned cloudy and hazy and extremely humid but it wasn’t too hot and there was a pleasant breeze. And so I decided to take a longer ...

Ruby-throated hummingbirds in the northeastern U.S. feed on the nectar produced by a fairly small suite of wildflowers: cardinal-flower, spo...

The word "butterfly" apparently comes from the Old English word  butorflēoge , the butterfly; similar words in Old German and Old ...