Last November, this column discussed the opening of deer season. But unless you鈥檙e an avid deer hunter, the span when it鈥檚 legal to take a whitetail may be longer than you think. The big event, regular firearms season, ended back in mid-December but the final moments of opportunity ticked ...
Thirty-four volunteers endured last Saturday鈥檚 all-day rain for the Christmas Bird Count, based at the Laurel Highlands Visitor Center in Ohiopyle State Park. Observers fanned out on assigned routes to log 6,288 birds of 52 different species, all within a 7-mile radius of the falls at ...
<strong>L</strong>ast week, driving along Walnut Hill Road south of Uniontown, Kathy and I spotted a raven coursing low over a cornfield. The bird鈥檚 identity was unmistakable鈥攇lossy black with a prominent bill, but much larger than a like-plumaged crow. On strong ...
Bears add an element of wildness to the outdoors. They鈥檙e associated with remote exotic places where most of us will never visit, and their presence lends a mild sense of adventure to any fishing, camping or hunting sojourn, no matter where the trip occurs.Black bears, though, the kind we ...
Tomorrow鈥檚 sunrise will open the deer season, ending a long custom in Pennsylvania鈥檚 outdoors. Since at least the early 1960s, the season has begun on the Monday after Thanksgiving. The board of Pennsylvania game commissioners, responsible for establishing hunting seasons and limits, voted ...
The fever for deer season finally began to smolder last week. For me, it鈥檚 always been there but, nowadays, it seems to take longer to ignite.This year it started while I was hunting for a turkey on a marvelous day to be in the woods. That late-autumn span when most leaves are down but the ...
