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Published: May 10, 2025 at 09:00 AM
Spring brings new growth on our trees, many new flowers brightening the fields and forests, birds returning from wintering areas, and the time most mammals are giving birth.
It’s also a time to remind...
Published: May 03, 2025 at 06:48 AM
It’s April 28 and I’m getting ready to submit my column to the Times News.
My Carbon County bird list has slowly crept up to 102 species.
That will soon change. By late May, if this year is like most...
Published: Apr 26, 2025 at 07:07 AM
It was about two years ago that Pap Knauss invited me along to his “Spirit Trail.”
Pap became the unofficial builder/caretaker of a winding, beautiful trail through Tuscarora State Park. He and I walk...
Published: Apr 19, 2025 at 09:09 AM
Earth Day, founded in 1970, was intended at that time to educate the public to growing environmental issues.
Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” brought attention to the indiscriminate use of pesticides a...
Published: Apr 12, 2025 at 08:34 AM
This is my time.
Almost every day, beginning in April, I make time (or an excuse) to get out somewhere in my outdoor realm in Carbon County.
Birds are the reason.
One family of birds that makes their ...
Published: Apr 05, 2025 at 07:04 AM
It was 1962 and I was at Curt and Gary’s house, my neighbors, and playing Parcheesi or Monopoly on a Saturday evening.
At the same time, “Chiller Theatre” was airing in its usual Saturday slot. Well, ...
Published: Mar 29, 2025 at 08:57 AM
Harbinger, by definition, means to herald the coming of. A harbinger could be a bad omen, but it is commonly used in the positive sense to announce the arrival of something good/nice.
I’d like to thin...
Published: Mar 22, 2025 at 07:25 AM
I guess birders have a sixth sense, or maybe lucky, or the old “time on task” adage works, but March 10 boded well for being a great day to bird.
Why? The weather forecast was predicting a warm-up wit...
Published: Mar 15, 2025 at 08:52 AM
Most likely if you read my column, you have some interest in nature, and I bet most like, feed or even seek out birds.
If you feed birds almost year-round, like I do, you know that a few species feed ...
Updated: Mar 08, 2025 at 09:34 AM
I admired my late father’s skills as a tinsmith. I was amazed at what he could do with sheet metal, aluminum and copper. I took a different path, but in my teens, I was his “helper” in his sheet metal...