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Suet lovers include woodpeckers, chickadees
The Saturday after Thanksgiving, a pileated woodpecker made my day. For the first time in more than 20 years, I saw one of these crow-sized hammerheads at my suet feeder. It returned several times over a 30-minute span.
Scott Shalaway: No one has to tell the birds summer is over
On Aug. 25 at a high school football game on Wheeling Island in the Ohio River, a flock of high flying birds distracted my attention from the game. Shortly before sunset, I counted about 50 common nighthawks swirling and feeding above the stadium lights. I watched until they disappeared in the darkening night sky.
Keep horses in the barn little longer to give pastures a fighting chance
Oh the joys of spring, birds migrating back, grasses starting to green up, blowing winds, extreme weather changes, and yes, mud! Very few of us can escape the wrath of soil mixed with excessive amounts of water, otherwise know as mud. For livestock owners, this is a critical time of year when we must manage
Great horned owls offer great entertainment
A few nights into the new year, three different species of owl sang within earshot of the back porch. It began shortly after 9 p.m. with the tremulous whistle of an eastern screech owl. A few minutes later a barred owl sang from deeper in the woods. “Who cooks for you, who cooks for you
Why does January have to be a bear?
January is such an unlovable month. I’m sure there are people who embrace it with pure unbridled joy, I just haven’t met any of them. While it poses as a month of great promise — resolutions, a “clean slate,” new beginnings — it is, in reality, a trick of the calendar. Stuck, wholly and completely
Potluck at your own peril
I give the worst parties. Seriously. I have no idea why people keep coming to my house. I tend to issue invitations that request that you join us and please bring a lawn chair, a dish to pass and a beverage, too. I tend to supply meat, water and fire. It’s akin to being invited
USDA scientists, cooperators sequence soy genome
WASHINGTON — U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists are part of a team that has sequenced the majority of the soybean genome, providing an unprecedented look into how this important legume crop converts four critical ingredients — sunlight, water, carbon dioxide and nitrogen — into protein and oil, the basic building blocks for many consumer
Updated economic forecast shows prices depend on recession ending
Economist cautions mixed future with increasing agricultural products prices and higher oil costs.
Buy now, play later
As many of you were, I hope, reading all about how rising fuel prices had me firmly resolving to stay home this summer, I was, as with most things involving my willpower and resolve, already breaking my vows. I was packing for summer vacation. Abroad. Foreign “Abroad?” Doesn’t that sound classy? Aren’t you breathlessly awaiting
Reporter moves to different ‘beat’
Hemingway went to Paris to discover, he once explained, if “I could write two good sentences.”
While there, however, Papa wrote two good books, The Sun Also Rises and Farewell to Arms.
