Nature on the doorstep : a year of letters / Angela E. Douglas. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Douglas, A. E. (Angela Elizabeth), 1956- author.

Series:

Cornell scholarship online.

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural history--New York (State)--Ithaca.

Natural history.

Nature and civilization--New York (State)--Ithaca.

Nature and civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Comstock Publishing Associates, 2023.

Summary:

'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.

Contents:

Nature on the Doorstep

Contents

Preface

A Note to Readers

The Letters

March 22, 2020 On the horns of a dilemma

March 29, 2020 Spring is coming . . .

April 5, 2020 Wordsworth's flowers

April 12, 2020 Vultures and rabbits

April 19, 2020 Bloom where you are planted

April 26, 2020 Winter's dregs

May 3, 2020 The English daisy

May 10, 2020 Bud burst!

May 17, 2020 And now it's summer

May 24, 2020 Chipmunks and woodchucks

May 31, 2020 Looking up

June 7, 2020 Natives and aliens

June 14, 2002 Save the bees!

June 21, 2020 A terminological jungle

June 28, 2020 Empires under the maple tree

July 5, 2020 Fireflies: a wonder of the Ithaca world

July 12, 2020 The Deptford pink

July 19, 2020 Blue jay birds and blue jay humans

July 26, 2020 Call my bluff

August 2, 2020 Termite mound or Italian villa?

August 9, 2020 Happy families

August 16, 2020 The orthopteran orchestra

August 23, 2020 Backyard munchers

August 30, 2020 Wasps galore

September 6, 2020 The official end of summer

September 13, 2020 Garden silks

September 20, 2020 Late season flowers

September 27, 2020 The War of the Seasons

October 4, 2020 The backyard harvest

October 11, 2020 Making a living in the backyard

October 18, 2020 The winter birdseed feeder is back in business

October 25, 2020 Fall colors

November 1, 2020 The end of the 2020 orthopteran orchestra

November 8, 2020 Fake news!

November 15, 2020 What's on today's menu?

November 22, 2020 It smells to high heaven

November 29, 2020 Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater

December 6, 2020 Hawk, beware!

December 13, 2020 Life in the leafless trees

December 20, 2020 Nearly a foot of snow

December 27, 2020 Mass Sparrow Attack

January 3, 2021 Celebrating the last day of the year

January 10, 2021 Winter sounds.

January 17, 2021 Sparrow Wars

January 24, 2021 The daily red squirrel

January 31, 2021 It is nothing but winter-winter, cold and savage

February 7, 2021 A Miller B nor'easter and a Bumpus event

February 14, 2021 Finding their voice

February 21, 2021 The daily crow commute

February 28, 2021 Periwinkle for tea

March 7, 2021 Snow fleas

March 14, 2021 All change

Postscript

Acknowledgments

References.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 24, 2023).

ISBN:

9781501768125

OCLC:

1369673626