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

Wow, the only thing I know that really likes adult mosquitoes is dragonflies. Mosquitoes harbor many devastating diseases such as malaria, yellow fever, dengue, West Nile Virus, and Eastern Equine

Possibly you are hosting a gathering of uninvited guests after a walk in the South Jersey woods, especially in August and September when our famous party crashers decide to take