Backyard Naturalist: Of time and toads

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Published
August 24, 2022

Backyard Naturalist: Of time and toads

Exploring the outdoors with a 5-year-old, Dana Wilde navigates the wild frontier of a child's wonder and all that's discovered along the way.
Published
August 10, 2022

Backyard Naturalist: Science, fiction and the oak

An attempt to identify an unknown object in the woods reveals a natural phenomenon that could generate science fiction, Dana Wilde writes.
Published
July 27, 2022

Backyard Naturalist: A rainbow in the eye of the beholder

The beauty of light rays refracted inside raindrops give us — or so it seems — a peculiar sense of grace being imposed on the world, Dana Wilde writes.
Published
July 13, 2022

Backyard Naturalist: Worrying observations in a summer bug report

Here's hoping that burying beetles reappear in the compost pile and deer flies stab my arms on July afternoons, Dana Wilde writes.
Published
June 22, 2022

Backyard Naturalist: Food for thought

We have a moral responsibility to the Earth and we need to do better so things don't stop working, Dana Wilde writes.
Published
June 8, 2022

Dana Wilde: The song of the Whip-poor-wills

The birds' three-note song echoes in memory and is unforgettable many years later, Dana Wilde writes.
Published
May 25, 2022

Dana Wilde: Things we shouldn’t have to do

Advancements in technology that we take for granted can raise disturbing questions of what it means to think, to do and to exist, Dana Wilde writes.
Published
May 11, 2022

Backyard Naturalist: All the little birds on ‘Jaybird Street’

The trees this spring are full of birds, providing the music you were hoping for in poetry, Dana Wilde writes.
Published
April 27, 2022

Backyard Naturalist: A Down East invasive spider spins web of intrigue

The “European hammock spider," also known as the dwarf weaver or Linyphia triangularis, has been slowly expanding its nonnative range in Maine and causing a stir in the spider community, Dana Wilde writes.
Published
April 13, 2022

Dana Wilde: Snow buntings in winter

Brightening up our winter fields, the white-feathered birds have interesting migration patterns tied to colder climate, Dana Wilde writes.