Windows on Wildlife: Bear Tracks

Welcome to the 9th edition of Windows on Wildlife! If you have a recent post about wildlife you’d like to share – it can be anything: birds, insects, mammals – scroll down to the end of the post and add your site; a compilation of all additions will be posted the following week. Please don’t forget to [...]

Windows on Wildlife: Red Squirrel

Welcome to the 5th edition of Windows on Wildlife!  If you have a recent post about wildlife you’d like to share – it can be anything: birds, insects, mammals – scroll down to the end of the post and add your site; a compilation of all additions will be posted the following week.  Please don’t [...]

Nature Notes/Windows on Wildlife: A Visit from a Black Bear in the Catskills

**Warning: yet another post about scat.** We went to my family’s house in the Catskills for the long weekend, and discovered that there had been significant bear activity on the property in the past few days. My father and step-mother installed a wildlife/trail camera (actually they’ve installed two in order to capture activity in different [...]

Feeding Bears Leads to Increased Encounters with Wildlife (Duh)

Dear Residents of Northhamption Who Are Feeding Bears, Stop.  Please, just stop. What part of feeding bears seems like a wise decision to you? Is it the fact that they are the largest wild animals here in Massachusetts, or their unpredictable nature that makes this seem like a good idea? Is it the idea of bears tromping through [...]

Tracking Mystery Continued… Sort Of

As a follow-up to yesterday’s post about the faux bear tracks, I have this ridiculousness to share: My hunter colleague came into the office this morning, and I told him teasingly that he needed to work on his bear tracking skills.  Whoops.  He got pretty ruffled, and insisted that those tracks were indeed from a bear.  To the point where we [...]

Bear Tracks! …Or Not

I phoned my boss the other morning to let him know I was running late coming in, and he was all excited to tell me that one of the staff at our center had found some bear tracks on our property.  I got really excited also – to have the opportunity to do some bear [...]