After what seems like weeks of rain, it is finally drying up. My potted perennials all needed water.
Nature & Science
Unlike their smaller relatives, snapping turtles don’t bask in the sun or float in rows on logs. They are both predators and scavengers.
It was on the Vineyard that Paul Greenberg first encountered the beauty of a functioning ecosystem, where fishing was not merely a symbolic act.
The 2014 inventory found there were 119 active osprey nests on the Island. If I did my math correctly, we had 63 successful nests.
Being dramatic is warranted in the case of monarch butterflies whose numbers have plummeted over the last few years.
This month there are two pairs of planets moving through our skies. In the early evening, you can see that the red planet Mars appears close to the...
Noah Galley was carrying grain to the family barn when when he saw a large bird flying in short bursts across the property. He identified the bird as...
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Thursday July 11, 2024
Beige and brown and tan and black, with horns spiraled or semicircular or in undulating waves, a legion of goats marched up the hill toward us, bleating in anticipation of fresh grass and leaves.