Outdoors

Just like black flies, mosquitoes, deer flies, and hornets, poison ivy is as much a rite of summer as high temperatures and sunshine, says columnist

The red-bellied woodpecker, that started out as an uncommon winter visitor, has now become a summer resident as well, says columnist

Roses, raspberries, nettles, hawthorns and gooseberries 'will readily and efficiently defend themselves,' warns columnist

It's wild leek season and that means a spring harvest that is fraught with controversy, says columnist

While students have a lot on their minds these days, 'thankfully the preservation of a healthy world is high on their list of goals to achieve,' says columnist

Some species, like fawn lily and white trillium, take up to eight years of growth before enough energy has been amassed to produce a flower, says columnist

These 'birds are moving northwards to boldly go where no turkey vultures have gone before, to discover new areas to make nests and survive,' says columnist

Today's robins are being affected by urbanization, singing earlier in the morning due to street lights and singing louder to be heard over urban traffic, says columnist

As a youngster, our columnist went to pains to create a life-like mount of a ruffed grouse and it was a thing of beauty, until it wasn't

Chickadees normally laugh in the face of danger but when they are taken by surprise, they resort to Plan B and turn into statues, says outdoors columnist