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![A robin on a branch in spring.](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/2024-03/cc4-14robin3_830px_ellenkenny.jpg?h=161c830e&itok=2cJ4_yAi)
Something Wild: Are bird feeders for the birds? Or us?
Are your local birds dependent on bird feeders? Are we doing them any great service by providing supplemental food during these coldest months of the year? The general consensus is no.
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- Wildlife,
- Something Wild
![A male eastern bluebird poses in rust throat, white belly and blue back breeding plumage](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/2024-03/Buebird-BEST%20PIXABAY_0.jpg?h=e7fae57b&itok=iVpuJqAs)
Forest Journal: The Bluebirds of Happiness
Wintering in NH helps bluebirds set up for early arrival of spring. More bluebirds seem to be overwintering in New Hampshire for various reasons explained here.
![The shrimp in their natural habitat](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/2024-03/PXL_20240227_162550312.jpg?h=6f0d5f13&itok=jzocyK38)
Forestry Friday: Fairy Shrimp: The Sea Monkeys of Vernal Pools
The only place you can find them in New England is in certain vernal pools with cold, deep, clean water.
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- Wildlife,
- Forestry,
- Working Forests
![A volunteer holds a barred owl ambassador.](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/2024-02/4B0A0036.jpg?h=5c87dc81&itok=zn4vvYlS)
Bretzfelder Series Starts February 21 in Bethlehem
This free series is presented each year at Bretzfelder Memorial Park.
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- Wildlife
![View of Mount Washington from the Maple Villa Glade on Bartlett Mountain](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/MtWashingtonMapleVillaGlade_GBA_830px.jpg?h=61ad2bfb&itok=taq4ut4T)
Something Wild: The Fir Wave Phenomenon and Other Challenges in NH's White Mountains
Forests growing at New Hampshire’s highest elevations in the White Mountains experience the most extreme conditions in the Northeast.
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- Climate,
- Wildlife,
- Something Wild
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Something Wild: Cold In New Hampshire
Winter adaptations in other species in New Hampshire have allowed them to flourish in the cold.
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- Wildlife,
- Something Wild
![A male spruce grouse seen up close.](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/Spruce-Grouse-male-by-Robert-A-Quinn-sm.jpg?h=b6076cfd&itok=QmYu1qE3)
Something Wild: Is NH’s spruce grouse the most audacious of the gallinaceous?
Too bad the spruce grouse is so little known, because it’s got to be the most audacious of the gallinaceous...
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- Something Wild,
- Wildlife
![Nighttime image of raccoon in grape vines overhanging front porch](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/RESIZED%2520Raccoon%2520BEST%253B%2520Closest.jpg?h=66b6f79f&itok=PTtNe1A9)
The Forest Society's 2023 Wrapped
Dave Anderson recounts wildlife feasting and fattening on the autumnal abundance of fruits and nuts... plus tipsy racoons!
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- Wildlife,
- Land Conservation