The curious naturalist nature's everyday mysteries
Boston Globe nature columnist discusses the lovelorn messages sent by singing insects on autumn evenings, the messages contained in spiderwebs, the effects of winter snow on the way sound travels, the way all life depends on the unusual structure of water, and much more. Most fun is the author's des...
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Table of Contents:
- SPRING
- Phantoms of the woods
- The mysterious partnership of the lichen
- The beloved robin's alter ego
- Early Spring's subtle splendors
- The blackfly
- The secret lives of worms
- Birds' nests
- A porcupine's private life
- Athletics and ardor
- Nature's lacework
- Croak of the wild
- Mud-lucious
- Eating wild
- SUMMER
- Jellyfish
- Sex and the single dragonfly
- Herring gulls
- Going for the gold
- Bats
- Messages in spider's webs
- Never sleep with a skunk
- Following firefly flashes
- Tide pools
- The sting
- History in stone
- Alien invasion
- Nature's fireworks
- AUTUMN
- September's insect chorus
- Neither land nor water
- Pods
- Black bear
- Hand-feeding wild birds
- For a plant, it's a galling experience
- Cougars stage a comeback
- The magic of mushrooms
- In praise of flies
- Animals on the move
- Competing for color
- Leave it to beavers
- Chipmunks and squirrels
- Return of the wild turkey
- Winter
- Sounds and silences of December
- Flying squirrels
- Pines
- When deer last in the dooryard browsed
- The ordinary miracle of ice
- A whole lot of hooting going on
- Fox tracks in snow
- Birches in winter
- Cannibal athletes
- Tales of the tree trunks
- A community of crows
- Tidal treasures
- Arctic visitors
- Stories written in snow
- Cold facts
- Heaven under our feet.
