The Great Outdoors

Each year I am asked about the strange gelatinous masses that people see in our local lakes. These blob-like creatures range in color from clear to yellow or green, but

Last October I wrote an article about deer that included some aspects of their mating habits. It described mate guarding and the male deer or buck’s propensity to focus on

It was a cool day in late October when I led a reconnaissance expedition of sorts to the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in Oceanville, NJ. This was in

It’s fall and I’m all charged up about the changing colors. Locales without seasons would never work for me. Okay, truth be told, in February or March I’m ready for

Bats are the only mammals that can fly. Flying squirrels would more properly be called gliders since they can’t perform a sustained flight, but rather float from one place to

Recently, I went for a meander at Hankins Pond in Millville. Some chipmunks were busy collecting nuts to cache in their den, making trips back and forth. And as the

If you are a regular reader of this newspaper, you may recall that a few weeks ago (September 4) in a feature article titled “A Tree, A Boy, A Fish,”

It was a lovely late autumn day and my husband and I were running our dogs on a salt hay farm off Stimpson Island Road in Dennisville on the NJ

Our backyard has an unruly native wildflower garden. It is chockfull of pollinators like bees, wasps, and migrating butterflies. In the late summer and early fall sneezeweed, Joe Pye, asters,

For a number of weeks I have noticed that a corner that I pass in my car each day has the bouquet of striped skunk. Some days the odor is