Urban Wildlife Guide

  This is an annual cicada. They are also called dog day cicadas because they appear during the hot humid "dog days" of late summe...

  Yesterday was National Haiku Poetry Day. In celebration I give you the view from the bridge at Batsto Lake in Hammonton, New Jersey, and t...

The white-throated sparrows that have quietly spent the winter scratching in the underbrush are now bright faced and singing for spring. Cli...

This is Phil, one of three famous peacocks that live at The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in New York City, 1047 Amsterdam Ave a...

Once again time to quote favorite lines from a favorite spring poem. "Hounds of Spring" from Atalanta in Calydon by Algernon Charl...

  I know I just wrote a blog about wild turkeys last week, noting their colorful heads. But they came back and this time on a sunny day that...

Wild turkeys have been passing through my yard lately. Males are primed for breeding season. This one kept spreading his tail, puffing up hi...