Top Photo: Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) with apple. Eastern gray squirrels are known for their industrious foraging behavior. Besides their nonstop foraging for natural food items like elm seeds, pine nuts, walnuts, mulberries and other naturals, depending on the season, they’re constantly in and out our many trash receptacles here at the museum. The natural… They pull everything out of our trash receptacles from crackers to candy, and even sometimes healthy food like apples. It seems like a goodRead more
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The Bag
Top Photo: Christian slogging across wetlands after successful mission to Goose Island. It’d been bugging me for more than a week, a plastic bag hung up on a tree just off the boardwalk, I’ve been throwing sticks at it, trying to spear it, whatever I could think of to get rid if it. It was just far enough away, and protected by branches, that I couldn’t reach it with whatever object I tossed at it. It was an eyesore. ItRead more