Opossums have a minimal ability to store fat and, as a consequence, in winter will often forego their nocturnal nature and forage during daylight hours.
Opossums
How Much Salt?
More salt doesn’t mean more melting power. Chloride from excess salt infiltrates our streams and groundwater and puts aquatic life and freshwater resources at risk.
Heated Birdbaths
How do you host a wild bird bash in the middle of winter? Just add water…to a heated birdbath.
Overwintering Butterflies
Butterflies are easy. It’s a statement that naturalists make from time to time, and it refers to the fact that we don’t have to work…
Robins — In Winter?!
Okay folks, show of hands. How many of you were raised to believe that robins are the first signs of spring? I know I was.…
Bird Tracking
Every year about this time, the Good Natured World Headquarters staff starts fielding questions about tracks in the snow. And every other year or so…
Tracking Oddities
Over the past several weeks, we’ve taken a Good Natured look at the tracks and signs of many of our area’s most common mammals, from…
Tracking – Cats
Several years ago we received an email from a St. Charles resident who had found the remains of a feline beneath a pine tree on…
Tracking – Mink
Several years ago, my friend Jessi and I went exploring at McKee Marsh–a small but wonderfully diverse parcel at the north end of the Blackwell…
Tracking – Deer
Walking along Ferson Creek recently, I couldn’t help but notice how the tips of so many plants-young trees, shrubs and crispy brown wildflowers alike-looked really…