Cute Bunny Alert!

Baby Bunny Pic #1

April and May can be very busy months in the garden. While I’ve been planting, digging, and building the birds and rabbits have been building, breeding, and feeding.

There’s much to tell and plenty of critters in the garden. Here’s the very cutest.

Darling Little Bunny

One day last week the cutest, sweetest, little [...]

Benjamin Rabbit Defends

I’ve been learning some great nature gardening tips from Carole Brown over at Ecosystem Gardening. If you’re wondering what to do with all the sticks which fall from the trees in your yard, Carole has the answer. Make a brush pile.

So, after the most recent storm, when a whole pile-worth of [...]

Hello Skunk!

wet baby skunk by Out at Bob's

One day you find a skunk under your deck. What do you do? Do you say, “Hello, cute little skunk. I’m so glad you have moved into my nature garden.” Or, “Little skunk, I know you’re part of nature, but you must find another home. Not in my [...]

Voles Like to Play Outdoors

Who made this track?

Many small animals hibernate for the winter. Chipmunks gather lots of food, then hibernate, or stay indoors. Mice try to move inside. Voles like to play outdoors in winter.

Whom do you think made the track, or runway, you see here? Was it a vole?

Winter Gardens Full of Life

I discovered this little [...]

Foiling Squirrels At Your Feeders

Caught Red-Handed! (Red-Pawed?) by Di_the_huntress

Raise your hand if a squirrel has ever raided your birdfeeder. What, you too? Seems when winter comes and squirrels are hungry those cheeky rascals will go to great lengths to plunder birdseed from feeders. Debi Huang, author at Go Explore Nature is having this challenge and she asked for [...]