Snow Like Icing and Birds at the Edge of Winter

On this, the official first day of autumn in Australia, new snow topped with an icy crust glistened like icing over the hills and meadows of Balmoral Mills – one more snowfall on the way to a northe...

On Drifting Snow, Clearcutting, and Hibernating Black Bears

Tufts within a rumpled blanket of white, drifts of new snow lay in cozy mounds against outbuildings this morning and licked across our winter access road like a line of voracious tongues intent on swa...

Snowbelisk

The snow that enwraps northern Nova Scotia reflects sky colours, infusing the landscape with shades of blue in shadows and dim light. In the tropics of Australia, milky blue and periwinkle cumulus clo...

Notes on Nuthatches

A new visitor has appeared at my feeder during the past week – a sharp-beaked, red-breasted nuthatch with a body shaped like two stout cones placed base to base. This nuthatch, with its rufous-t...