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Polecat
This is the time of year when essence of skunk sometimes reaches my nostrils as I wander over our mountain. That’s because March is prime mating season, and male striped skunks are abroad looki… more »
Marcia Bonta
Polecat
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Marcia Bonta wrote 4 months ago: This is the time of year when essence of skunk sometimes reaches my nostrils as I wander over our mo … more »
Flying Monkeys
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Marcia Bonta wrote 6 months ago: Crows acting up, by Greg7 “Why don’t you just shoot them?” That’s the react … more »
Golden Eagle Days (Part 1)
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Marcia Bonta wrote 8 months ago: “I think that the Bald Eagle Ridge is the single best place in Pennsylvania to observe golden … more »
Sy Montgomery books for kids
Marcia Bonta wrote 1 year ago: I have read all three of the books by Sy Montgomery in the Houghton Mifflin “Scientists in the … more »
Grasslands of Central Pennsylvania
Marcia Bonta wrote 1 year ago: On a day in late August, members of the Pennsylvania Native Plant Society visited what ecologist Rog … more »
Life at a Vernal Pond
Marcia Bonta wrote 2 years ago: It was not the year to observe our vernal ponds. But how was I to know that? After two years of mo … more »
Mad Marmots
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Marcia Bonta wrote 2 years ago: “Danger–Mad Marmot” warned the sign on the laboratory door. Inside stuffed woodch … more »
A Natural Heritage
Marcia Bonta wrote 2 years ago: “I’m too old for this,” I think as I follow Jessica McPherson up and down the stee … more »
Little Loggers
Marcia Bonta wrote 3 years ago: Last winter I spent more time watching meadow voles beneath our feeders than I did birds. The heavy … more »
The Biodiversity of Lake Pleasant
Marcia Bonta wrote 3 years ago: On a bright, breezy day in early June we paddled a canoe around Lake Pleasant, one of eight glacial … more »
Firefly Magic
Marcia Bonta wrote 4 years ago: Warm July nights are lit by a sea of blinking firefly lights. To my undiscriminating eye, the flash … more »
Saving Box Turtles
Marcia Bonta wrote 4 years ago: Imagine digging a trench for a box turtle enclosure in one hundred degree heat! That’s what a … more »
Nature's Ultimate Bankers
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Marcia Bonta wrote 5 years ago: It’s late January as I crunch over frosty, fallen leaves on my way to Coyote Bench. Almost i … more »
Summer's Fiddlers
Marcia Bonta wrote 6 years ago: He stalked through the grasses, ears cupped, head down. Then he squatted, still listening and lookin … more »
Theodora Cope Gray - Nature's Own Child
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Marcia Bonta wrote 7 years ago: She died as she had wished, propped up in her bed so she could watch the birds at her feeder. At 9 … more »
Continental Habitat Islands
Marcia Bonta wrote 7 years ago: Bob Gruver held the small snake by the back of its head as we gathered around to look. The owner o … more »
Saving Riparian Forests
Marcia Bonta wrote 8 years ago: Our Plummer’s Hollow stream is a faint, unnamed blue line on Highbee’s stream map of P … more »
Arizona's Passenger Pigeon
Marcia Bonta wrote 8 years ago: Habitat loss is affecting wildlife populations worldwide. Although the loss of forests has receive … more »
Winter Survival Champions
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Marcia Bonta wrote 11 years ago: “It’s amazing. I can’t believe there’s anything here,” exclaimed Dr. J … more »
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