There are more signs that spring is arriving in Michigan—and I couldn’t be more excited. Over the weekend, I noticed an influx of birds—the kind not normally visibly present in the winter. That is the most encouraging development. Even more so is that this morning, I glimpsed a pair of robins, the first I have seen […]
Last week, my daughter and I embarked on an animal rescue of prime importance. I’m not talking about the kind of liberation you might see on TV, like a beached whale, escaped circus animal, bear on an iceberg, or large game stuck in an inexplicable situation. This rescue was the backyard type; the predicament was […]
After my Gopher post on Friday, I was contemplating a clever tongue-in-cheek entry about the assortment of “wildlife” in our back yard. You see, we live in a subdivision in a decreasingly rural setting, which limits wild creatures to decidedly smaller and less wild varieties. In addition to gophers, rabbits are the most common, as […]