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Published
January 11, 2023

Backyard Naturalist: Glimpses of Mercury

The rare times we can see Mercury in the night sky are reminders of the planet's mysterious travels in space, like dreams that appear just before waking, Dana Wilde writes.
Published
December 28, 2022

Backyard Naturalist: Year-end thoughts on climate change

This month’s highly irregular weather is a symptom of the fact that global warming is real and spelling trouble, Dana Wilde writes.
Published
December 21, 2022

Backyard Naturalist: Earliest sunset before shortest day

Understanding the Earth's orbit and spinning around the sun can be tricky, illustrating how appearances may well not be reality, Dana Wilde writes.
Published
December 7, 2022

Backyard Naturalist: Letter from the future

Imagining his grandson three decades from now, Dana Wilde ponders the mess we're making of the environment and why we allow it to happen for future generations when we know what we're doing.
Published
November 23, 2022

Backyard Naturalist: November notes

From an apparition of August to crusty snow and brumal cold, the month of November revealed a season changing and a sense that time is standing still, Dana Wilde writes.

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Published
November 9, 2022

Backyard Naturalist: The tangled webs of bridge spiders

Dana Wilde tries to unravel the mystery of spiders whose presence is known mainly on bridges or other structures overhanging water, where small gnats are their a preferred food.
Published
October 27, 2022

Backyard Naturalist: The beautiful, reviled shag

Cormorants vibrate some living thread between here and boyhood as they fish local waters, Dana Wilde writes.
Published
October 12, 2022

Backyard Naturalist: Incredible ironies in a looming disaster

It is incredible that we are making more trash now than we were 20 years ago, Dana Wilde writes.
Published
September 21, 2022

Backyard Naturalist: Transfixed by a September field

Contemplating a natural beauty so intense it’s almost unendurable is like encountering an angel, Dana Wilde writes.
Published
September 7, 2022

Backyard Naturalist: Wasps and spiders

Watching a small wasp drag an immobile spider across the deck on a summer afternoon, Dana Wilde thinks of the underground chamber that awaits for the coming creature lifecycle.