Outdoors
A slow start to deer season
To say the Northern Zone rifle season is off to a slow start seems to be an understatement, at least in our part of the zone.
Nov 16, 2009 | 1:25 am | (1) Comments
Spider webs have people thinking - boom!
My wa was greatly disturbed today when a reader sent an e-mail requesting I do a column on spider webs.
Nov 14, 2009 | 11:45 pm | (0) Comments
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Someone asked if it was unusual to have blueberries this late in the year.
Nov 14, 2009 | 11:45 pm | (0) Comments
Close encounters of the wildlife kind
I have had my share of problems with animals over the years, especially animals that were in the wrong place.
Nov 08, 2009 | 1:00 am | (1) Comments
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Marge Souran took this picture of a large paper wasp nest attached to the electric meter at Al Doring's house in Chestertown.
Nov 08, 2009 | 1:00 am | (0) Comments
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OK, so I cannot help myself. Here is another shot of the Cossayuna eagle.
Oct 31, 2009 | 11:45 pm | (0) Comments
Thinking about skunks on a big day in sports
Writing this column gives me a great sense of freedom. The genesis of this euphoria is the fact I expect no one to read the column this week. Ergo, I can write whatever I wish and no one will complain.
Oct 31, 2009 | 11:45 pm | (0) Comments
A rainy start to rifle season
This article was corrected to reflect that only a portion of the Batten Kill is open to year-round angling.Nothing dampens a day of hunting quite like an all-day rain.
Oct 27, 2009 | 12:10 am | (0) Comments
Sightings
I have a broad-winged hawk that follows the tractor around catching displaced voles.
Oct 25, 2009 | 12:00 am | (0) Comments
You've got questions, I've got some answers
Some things are unexpected. Some are just plain strange. I figure that, in order to be successful in life, you have to be prepared for either and take it in stride.
Oct 24, 2009 | 11:55 pm | (0) Comments
Sightings
The new crop of baby chickadees are easier to befriend around the feeder.
Oct 17, 2009 | 11:55 pm | (0) Comments
Waxing the differences in travel plans of birds
Fall is a great time for two things - waxing the truck or flying a kite.
Oct 17, 2009 | 11:25 pm | (0) Comments
Southern Zone bowhunting begins Saturday
The calendar says mid-October, but the weather will feel more like mid-November when Southern Zone bowhunters take to the woods today.
Oct 17, 2009 | 12:20 am | (0) Comments
Animal populations are all in the numbers
At 5:30 the other morning, a mantle of fog hung over our woods at treetop level.
Oct 11, 2009 | 12:00 am | (0) Comments
Sightings
Russ Guard found this small colony of honey bees who built open comb. Probably the queen in the swarm was unable to fly further so the combs were built on the spot she last landed. Cold weather would have killed them but Russ got everybody moved into a hive and well situated for the winter.
Oct 11, 2009 | 12:00 am | (0) Comments
A big fish (plural) story
Paul Gibaldi has a lot of stories from his decades as a wilderness guide in the Adirondacks.
Oct 05, 2009 | 12:00 am | (0) Comments
Slugs aren't as disgusting as they may seem
I was thinking today about disgusting things. Actually, not about the things themselves, but the reasons we find them disgusting. I was searching for some sort of universal concept or feeling that might put them in this category and if there might be some evolutionary reason for feeling t…
Oct 04, 2009 | 12:00 am | (0) Comments
Trying to restore wild brook trout
Dr. John Braico waded into the Mettawee River, thermometer dangling from a cord around his neck and a tape measure in his hand.
Sep 28, 2009 | 12:00 am | (0) Comments
Sightings
Big week for juvenile broadwing hawks. John Raymond sends a picture of one he rescued from a flock of crows in Colonie and Karen Cosey in Argyle has one that follows her around, picking off mice exposed as she does farm work.
Sep 27, 2009 | 12:00 am | (0) Comments
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