Jack Burns Lives!

When it comes to the environment, I depend a lot on what my eyes and ears tell me, particularly when it comes to my own community. I’m not a scientist and have only an amateurish ability to decipher the complicated graphs and studies delivering all the bad news.
But I have a reasonable amount of common [...]

After a long period of procrastination, I’ve finally added my bat house.
There’s a good population of bats in my bioregion, mostly Evening bats (Nycticeius humeralis), but there are other species. They roost in hollow trees and houses, but I’m told the little winged fur balls are also attracted to these little houses.
I sit in the [...]

Ah, spring.
Approaching the equinox on March 20, I find myself busy sowing seeds, preparing the garden and tuning the bike for increased mileage during the warmer months. Migratory songbirds like the Ruby crowned kinglet are filling up their bellies for their coming northward journey, as are the Snow geese and other migratory, avian [...]