Enter May in Northern Nova Scotia

In our yard and beyond, red maples have thrown off the somber cloak of winter and dressed their branches with flowers of red and white, the clustered blossoms tinging our northern Nova Scotia landscap...

Birding at Wallace Bay National Wildlife Area, Nova Scotia

On a hunt for early warblers, I drove this morning in sun and wind to Wallace Bay National Wildlife Area, a freshwater marsh located on the north shore of Nova Scotia about 35 kilometres west of Tatam...

Slugs and Other Spring Slitherers

In early morn I walked in drizzle beneath overcast skies, my ears and eyes seeking birds. Ruby-crowned kinglets let loose with high-spirited, rollicking songs, their voices, like those of winter wrens...

Wood to See Us Through

In his nature classic A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold wrote that wood heats us twice, once when we cut it and once when we burn it. Lately, wood has been heating my son Janis more than twice. Assi...