I recently called my friend Bob Bastion to see if the barn swallows have returned to build their nests under the eaves of his cabinet shop. In recent years, he would report that the birds would arrive at the beginning of May after a stretch of warm days. The famous swallows return on schedule ...
Communities across the region were alive with volunteers recently in celebration of Earth Day and the second annual Susquehanna Greenway Cleanup Week. Over the course of the week of April 16-24, 12 towns organized events that attracted hundreds of volunteers and collectively removed ...
My diary entry for April 30, 2022: “When returning from our weekly trip to the landfill, I took the Steam Hollow Road. Mary Alice always likes going on this road during all of the different seasons. We stopped at the lake, where we watched several pairs of Canada geese that had already staked ...
The Northcentral Pennsylvania Conservancy and Pennsylvania Game Commission’s efforts on Plunketts Creek at Proctor are being recognized with a Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence. The project was evaluated for the degree of environmental protection, innovation, partnership, ...
HARRISBURG — Timing alone would make it special. Pennsylvania’s upcoming spring gobbler season — the state’s only big-game hunt outside of fall and winter — takes place when the world seems new, freshly green and alive. This year’s season began last Saturday with a one-day hunt ...
Recently a robin built a nest on the top of a post on our porch. This also happened last year and we are curious as to whether this could be the same robin. A robin has been known to build its nest in the same tree or place as in previous years. One study showed that 55% of robins returned to ...