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The Beauty in Nature: Dancing on the Ocean
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- Written by Clyde McMillan-Gamber Clyde McMillan-Gamber
Two kinds of related oceangoing birds, Wilson’s petrels and Leach’s petrels, have several characteristics in common.
Melinda’s Garden: Vacation Care for Container Gardens
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Planning a few long weekends or a vacation may have you rethinking your garden plans. Don’t let time away from home stop you from growing flowers and vegetables in containers.
The Beauty in Nature: Dace and Darters
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Blacknose dace and Johnny darters are slim, 2-inch fish that live in various-sized waterways in the eastern United States, including southeastern Pennsylvania.
The Beauty in Nature: Feathered Dancers
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Up to six kinds of small birds nest or winter along flowing streams in North America.
Melinda’s Garden: Designing a Wildlife-Friendly Landscape
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- Written by Melinda Myers Melinda Myers
We love watching the bunnies hopping across the lawn or ground squirrels scurrying away with a cheek full of seeds — that is, until they dine on our favorite shrub or take just one bite out of each red ripe tomato in the garden.
Melinda’s Garden: Planning and Designing a Productive Vegetable Garden
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Whether planning your first, second, or 10th vegetable garden, it can be overwhelming. There are so many tasty vegetables and never enough space and time to grow them all.
The Beauty in Nature: Raptor Counterparts
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- Written by Clyde McMillan-Gamber Clyde McMillan-Gamber
Raptors are birds of prey, including hawks, eagles, and owls, that capture other creatures for food.
The Beauty in Nature: Native Woodland Wildflowers
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Early in April in southeastern Pennsylvania, many green shoots emerge from crunchy carpets of dead, fallen leaves on woodland floors and push toward the sunlight.
The Beauty in Nature: Small, Wintering Field Birds
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During February, some years ago, while driving through snow-covered farmland in Lancaster County, I saw a flock of over a hundred small birds “bounding” low in flight, down to snowdrifts in a large field.