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Eeek! It’s a moose!
By Buckmasters Online
Photo: Where is the best place to see a moose? NOT on a snowmobile trail. Where winter clings to the landscape with heavy snowfalls, in places like Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, snowmobiling is great fun. But that’s not the reason moose and deer use the same trails as snowmobilers. “The deep snow can make using the packed snowmobile... READ MORE
How do birds stay warm?
By Buckmasters Online
With freezing, low winter temperatures across much of the county this winter, do you wonder how birds can stay warm in the coldest months? Common redpolls are a great example. These energetic foragers weigh less than 15 grams and can survive temperatures that plunge nearly 100 degrees below the freezing point! How do they do it? Birds of all shap... READ MORE
The eagles have landed!
By Arizona Department of Game and Fish
Arizona’s bald eagle nest cam is now streaming. Eagle watchers have been avidly following nesting raptors with cameras aimed at nests near city and government buildings or in massive trees above rail yards, and now, there’s different view coming from Arizona. The camera is set, zoomed in and ready to broadcast the day-to-day life of a ... READ MORE
When saving bats is as simple (and complicated) as fixing a bridge
By Georgia Department of Natural Resources
A busy northwest Georgia bridge and the massive colony of bats that call it home are both better off thanks to recent work that preserved the structure and its wildlife. The Interstate 75 bridge near Calhoun averages 72,000 vehicles a day. Yet it doubles as the largest known bridge-roost for bats in the state, according to Katrina Morris, senior wi... READ MORE
How’s your Spidey sense?
By Buckmasters Online
Is your spidey sense all atingle this fall? Is that because when you walked out the door this morning, you ran into a spider web, face first? Is there an enormous web stretching across your yard? Doorway? Porch? Or, from the nearest tree to the corner of a barn? A garage? Or the sandbox? It’s not Spiderman. It’s the return of the orb we... READ MORE
Catching a blue streak before it changes continents
By Buckmasters Online
Photo: Cerulean Warbler outfitted with light-level geolocator unit. Photo by Lesley Bulluck, courtesy Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries Blue streaks—visual images akin to electric spears of lightning, quick flashes of brilliant blue against an early fall sky—are puzzles that disappear as quickly as they arrive. One those... READ MORE