It’s been hot for a week, made worse by thick humid conditions. Smart money says stay in the house. But playing it smart means no hope to see good things in nature. Indoors offers nothing. Outdoors, ...

Perched on the white boards of the horse corral, a female oriole tugged again and again at a few white hairs of of our percheron horse's tail that had caught on a splinter. The long hairs must have ...

The other day, I was in an upstairs room in our house west of Gilby, N.D., when I heard a familiar bird song. "Baltimore oriole," I thought. A glance out the window proved me wrong. The bird sitting ...