While Riverdale is hardly the concrete jungle that Manhattan is, we are becoming less and less suburban with all the new high-density construction. Excluding birds and squirrels that are ubiquitous and the occasional cat, mouse and even rat, I am amazed at the number of animal species we can still spot here. This is probably […]
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Would You Want a Bat as a Pet I have always thought that bats were unlovely creatures and somewhat sinister to boot. It may go back to that night when we woke up and heard something flying around our bedroom. It turned out to be a bat that had clearly lost its way. I opened
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Despite recent moderating temperatures (March 2019) here in Riverdale, our recent cold snap is still a searing memory. Fortunately, we humans can retreat into warm homes and heavy clothing, but how do animals cope? Looking through my windows, I still see some bird species gathering at my birdfeeder. I see sparrows everywhere and hear the
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What’s That I See! Sometimes something can stare you in the face for a while until you actually notice it. Standing in my front garden thinking about something, probably irrelevant, I found myself staring absent-mindedly at my Daphniphyllum macropodum, a small tree resembling a rhododendron. Daphnyphyllum macropodum- Courtesy of Koishikawa Hitohi Hulking Shape- S. Jeselsohn
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