Nature on the Doorstep
eBook - ePub

Nature on the Doorstep

A Year of Letters

  1. 236 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Nature on the Doorstep

A Year of Letters

About this book

Nature on the Doorstep reveals the simple pleasures of paying attention to the natural world in one's own backyard over the course of a year. In weekly letters, Angela Douglas shares the joys and curiosities of a decidedly ordinary patch of green in upstate New York cultivated through the art of "strategic neglect"—sometimes taking a hand to manage wildlife, more often letting nature go its own way.

From the first flowers of spring to cardinals singing in the winter, Douglas shows us the magic of welcoming unexpected plant and animal life into one's backyard. A paean to the richness we find when we stop to look and let be, Nature on the Doorstep celebrates the role humble backyards play both in conservation efforts and in an expanded appreciation of the living world.

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. A Note to Readers
  3. The Letters
  4. March 22, 2020 On the horns of a dilemma
  5. March 29, 2020 Spring is coming …
  6. April 5, 2020 Wordsworth’s flowers
  7. April 12, 2020 Vultures and rabbits
  8. April 19, 2020 Bloom where you are planted
  9. April 26, 2020 Winter’s dregs
  10. May 3, 2020 The English daisy
  11. May 10, 2020 Bud burst!
  12. May 17, 2020 And now it’s summer
  13. May 24, 2020 Chipmunks and woodchucks
  14. May 31, 2020 Looking up
  15. June 7, 2020 Natives and aliens
  16. June 14, 2002 Save the bees!
  17. June 21, 2020 A terminological jungle
  18. June 28, 2020 Empires under the maple tree
  19. July 5, 2020 Fireflies: a wonder of the Ithaca world
  20. July 12, 2020 The Deptford pink
  21. July 19, 2020 Blue jay birds and blue jay humans
  22. July 26, 2020 Call my bluff
  23. August 2, 2020 Termite mound or Italian villa?
  24. August 9, 2020 Happy families
  25. August 16, 2020 The orthopteran orchestra
  26. August 23, 2020 Backyard munchers
  27. August 30, 2020 Wasps galore
  28. September 6, 2020 The official end of summer
  29. September 13, 2020 Garden silks
  30. September 20, 2020 Late season flowers
  31. September 27, 2020 The War of the Seasons
  32. October 4, 2020 The backyard harvest
  33. October 11, 2020 Making a living in the backyard
  34. October 18, 2020 The winter birdseed feeder is back in business
  35. October 25, 2020 Fall colors
  36. November 1, 2020 The end of the 2020 orthopteran orchestra
  37. November 8, 2020 Fake news!
  38. November 15, 2020 What’s on today’s menu?
  39. November 22, 2020 It smells to high heaven
  40. November 29, 2020 Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater
  41. December 6, 2020 Hawk, beware!
  42. December 13, 2020 Life in the leafless trees
  43. December 20, 2020 Nearly a foot of snow
  44. December 27, 2020 Mass Sparrow Attack
  45. January 3, 2021 Celebrating the last day of the year
  46. January 10, 2021 Winter sounds
  47. January 17, 2021 Sparrow Wars
  48. January 24, 2021 The daily red squirrel
  49. January 31, 2021 It is nothing but winter—winter, cold and savage
  50. February 7, 2021 A Miller B nor’easter and a Bumpus event
  51. February 14, 2021 Finding their voice
  52. February 21, 2021 The daily crow commute
  53. February 28, 2021 Periwinkle for tea
  54. March 7, 2021 Snow fleas
  55. March 14, 2021 All change
  56. Postscript
  57. Acknowledgments
  58. References