Get your woodpeckers straight!
Living in Balance By Jenipher Appleton “There’s a hairy woodpecker on the suet feeder.” “No, that’s a downy!”...
Living in Balance
Cauldrons, murders and unkindnesses
Living in Balance By Jenipher Appleton It is commonplace for us to refer to certain groups of animals...
A ghostly green glow
Living in Balance By Jenipher Appleton Summer was gone but the good weather lingered on into golden September....
The Eastern kingbird can be a real tyrant
Living in Balance By Jenipher Appleton Family TYRANNIDAE, scientific name Tyrannus tyrannus. Sounds like some type of dinosaur,...
Savouring the great blue heron’s majesty
Living in Balance By Jenipher Appleton Childhood memory. Three Mile Lake, Muskoka. Early morning mist. Lake a sheet...
Gray catbird: master of mimicry
Living in Balance By Jenipher Appleton Each day as I head to the back of our property, I...
Vegetable gardening with my Three Sisters
Living in Balance By Jenipher Appleton Vegetable gardening, though not for everyone, can be a very therapeutic endeavour....
In appreciation of the bird life around us
Living in Balance By Jenipher Appleton A warm July morning on Blue Heron Bay, Muskoka. Half an hour...
A stroke of luck during a lightning storm
Or, How my family and two dogs survived an Algonquin nightmare Living in Balance By Jenipher Appleton Not...
Tiny wonders of the avian world
Living in Balance By Jenipher Appleton What lays pea-sized eggs, weighs an eighth of an ounce, and can...