As winter approaches, a silence creeps over the natural landscape. Songbirds are mostly quiet now, not to resume their cheery singing until early next spring. Bees have stopped buzzing. Katydids and ...

Crows, along with ravens and magpies, as a type of bird known as corvids. They are highly intelligent, with good memories, capable of mimicking human speech, and have been known to hold grudges, as ...

As you may have noticed, I'm rarely surprised when something strange, or even weird, happens at our house. That said, I was astounded when I heard the sound of a rooster crowing, seeming to come from ...