Outdoors

After beind shed, the cast antler becomes a much needed dietary supplement for rodents as well as for carnivores such as coyote and fox

Shy but wily predator waited for human observers to leave the scene before swooping down to claim the spoils of war: a mourning dove

A bumper crop of wild grapes, hanging thick in clusters, put more than 50 turkeys in the midst of outdoor columnist's recent travels

When it comes to nature, and particularly the fate of a living creature, we have a list of options to choose from, says outdoors columnist

While fictionalized pigs are cute, real live wild pigs could be an 'ecological disaster about to sweep across southern Ontario farmlands,' warns columnist

We are storytellers, making us the only species on the planet that has been able to carry its history from one generation to the next, columnist explains

To see wild birds feed, groom, argue and roost just inches away, with only a pane of glass between you and them, is an entertaining education, says columnist

'Perhaps our open, rolling farm fields are a close equal to the rolling Arctic tundra they call home,' says columnist of birds who fly south to our region in the winter

Natural icons, or signs of seasonal shifts, have become a series of markers confirming that Nature has carried on, says outdoors columnist

Fishers and others of its ilk are being pushed aside by more and more human homes on the rural landscape, says columnist, warning it puts small pets in peril