Fun fact: Almost all owls have eyes that are proportionately large to their heads for increased visibility during low-light hours, but the Great Gray Owl's peepers are especially big—roughly the size ...

Mid-December is a time of cold, snow, ice and darkness. Though the cold, snow and ice may vary from year to year, the darkness is a consistent annual phenomenon. We will soon be at the winter solstice ...

It’s March. This is when I find myself torn between clinging to winter and beginning to look for signs of spring, for the forest to begin to shake off its winter torpor. A time to look for breeding ...

The great horned owl is an appropriate bird for Halloween week and for early November. Halloween is a holiday of the other world, the one we don't know and so feel anxious about. Halloween mocks death ...