Weekly Puzzler Answer #37
Chipmunks are what are referred to by biologists as “true hibernators.” Many animals take long naps for the winter but only a handful actually hibernate. Chipmunks, woodchucks, ground squirrels, jumping
Weekly Puzzler #38
The falling snow in this picture makes it obvious that this male cardinal does not spend the winter hibernating. Are there any BIRDS that DO survive winter by hibernating? CLICK
Weekly Puzzler #37
Since we’ve been talking about animals and how they survive winter, let’s continue this trend and talk about another common animal–the chipmunk. How do chipmunks survive winter? Do they stay
Weekly Puzzler Answer #35
If you feed the birds in the winter, you will know the answer to last week’s puzzler: Gray squirrels STAY ACTIVE during the winter! If the weather is harsh and
Weekly Puzzler #35
This week I decided to make the puzzler about an animal we have all seen–an eastern gray squirrel. Do you know much about the habits of these common mammals? For
The Halloween Gift
Here in western North Carolina, we got several inches of snow beginning Halloween night and continuing into Saturday that transformed an already beautiful forest filled with trees decorated in their autumn
Are you Stuck in a Rut?
Let us love winter for it is the spring of genius. Do you find it challenging to make yourself get OUTSIDE in the winter, when the temperature is in the