Our backyard pond, like any other, provides a smorgasbord of seafood for a variety of hungry predators that prowl the banks and shallows of this watery buffet. Bluegill sunfish, bass, small fry, ...

The great egret had returned on a late July morning to hunt in the shallow pond that borders our backyard. This is the second time in 22 years that we have seen that species here, other than an ...

After being closed for half a year, the trails at Walden Ponds Wildlife Habitat are again open, and spring migrants are arriving. On our first foray around the ponds since the closure, we watched ...

Grass Pond Preserve in Richmond spans 424 acres and includes diverse terrain such as old pastureland, wetlands and glacial erratics from the Ice Age. A great blue heron rookery was spotted in a stand ...

Patience is a heron. In the quiet of early light, the buzz of an insect registers and fades, while a floating magnolia petal swirls, paired with its own reflection. Hours pass marked by the calls of ...