Near the Forest, by the Lake : Discovering Nature Close to Home.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Douglas, Angela E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural history--New York (State)--Ithaca Region--Popular works.

Natural history.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"Essays highlighting the diversity and wonder of the natural world and history of upstate New York"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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 run

Spring peepers

Robins

Wild ginger

May

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

Ruby-throats

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 great mullein

December

Love in a cold climate

Squirrel dreys

Coyotes

Duck time.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781501780578

1501780573

9781501780561

1501780565

OCLC:

1473932852