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In the summer of 2024, my fifth year of re-nesting raptors, I managed two Barn Owl re-nests. The first nest was in a more traditional barn setting, and I was able to intimately document their recovery. This nest originally had seven owlets, but three had fallen from it. Unlike most owls, Barn Owls will not take care of grounded young; If you fall out of the nest, you are on your own. After the property owner notified the Ohio Wildlife Center a local wildlife rehab center that

Image credit: Laura Hubers/USFWS Frozen Feathers I spent a week in the desert. Most of it was spent in remote Trans-Pecos Texas down to the Rio Grande River and Big Bend National Park. The middle of the week was full of rich experiences, from getting stuck in quicksand while pursuing black-throated sparrows to basking in natural hot tubs at Terlingua Springs with temperatures in the 80s, but that is fodder for another tale. What I want to talk about is the bookending of this

To some, Ohio may not seem like a particularly exciting state. We’ve got the Buckeyes, and maybe we go down to Hocking Hills once a year -and don’t forget the Hell is Real  sign on 71- but is that it? On the contrary, when it comes to wildlife, Ohio’s got some seriously cool characters.  As the shallowest and warmest, Lake Erie is the most ecologically productive of the Great Lakes, boasting the greatest number of fish species present in any Great Lake. In spring, millions of