October – December
Nature Newswatch by Tim Herd is an attractive weekly “capsule” of the North American world. In an informative, yet entertaining fashion, it alerts readers to what is happening in Nature and explores a wide variety of wildlife and natural history topics – from what’s blooming to who’s hatching to where the migrants are – as fertile and broad as Nature itself!
Calling all cows! Bull elk in rut season October Revolution Autumn tree colors The defense rests Five-lined skink defense and hibernation A bear of an appetite Black bears fattening up You hear them before you see them Canada geese migrating Autumn song White-crowned sparrow Gold-plated rubies American bittersweet Drum session Ruffed grouse fall drumming Ghastly glimmer from clumps on stumps Jack-o’-lantern mushroom Flashy flyers Green-winged teals migrating Scarlet leaves of autumn Virginia creeper Destructive superheroes Turkeytail polypore Talkin’ turkey! Wild turkey Who-cooks-for-you-all? Barred owl Riders in the sky Red-tailed hawks migrating Turncoat Ermine in mid-molt Huddled masses Northern flying squirrel sleeping groups Taking a dive Double-crested cormorant Eau de reek Collared peccary Head games Bighorn sheep rut Deck the halls American holly Winter dress white Willow ptarmigan’s winter plumage Flyer fuel Downy woodpecker Beachhead battles Northern elephant seals breeding Of passion and parasites American mistletoe Winter’s water rat Muskrat active all winter
