PLIGHT OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD APEX PREDATOR

October 27, 2023.Reading time 14 minutes.

Red-shouldered Hawk Nature's Rodent Control Close-up

The first scenes to come to mind for many of us when we read ‘apex predator’ are megafauna hunting across vast expanses (in a documentary narrated by Sir David Attenborough) – Lions and Leopards of Africa, Gray Wolves of the Yellowstone Basin, Brown\Grizzly bears of Alaska, or Orcas of the Pacific Northwest coast. Let’s face […]

Moving Northward

January 15, 2021.Reading time 6 minutes.

We have Eastern Towhees living and nesting in our yard – strikingly marked large sparrows that call on us to “Drink Your Tea!!”. This is not unusual for our part of Georgia. They are considered to be numerous, even though their population numbers declined 49% between 1966 and 2015, according to the North American Breeding […]