Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
January
New Year’s Day Birds
In the Company of Bears
With Fear and Trembling
Luxury Living on the Lake
February
Living with Ice
The Sound of the Syrinx
The Great Seal
Lilies in February
March
Hemlocks
Woodpeckers, Present and Absent
Mole Salamanders
The Blackbirds Are Back
April
The Skunk Cabbage Classic
Spring Peepers
Robins
Wild Ginger
May
Hurrah for LBJs
It’s a Porcupine
Snakes
Feather Your Nest
June
Poppies
Mockingbirds
The Osprey
Spongy Trouble
July
The Baltimore Checkerspot
A Natural Corridor for Toads
Shedding Bark
The Making of a Green Lake
August
High Summer
Lamp Shells
Blood on the Menu
Summer Butterflies
September
Rubythroats
The Carolina Grasshopper
The Hunt for the Harvester
Goldenrods
October
Autumnal Songsters
Black Walnut Bonanza
A Relocating Crown
In the Carbon Sink
November
Wild Geese
Witch Hazel
All Change
The Greatness of the Great Mullein
December
Love in a Cold Climate
Squirrel Dreys
Coyotes
Duck Time
Postscript
References