My wife, Linda, does most of our Christmas shopping, but occasionally I’m inspired to buy a few special gifts. A few weeks ago I introduced my grandson, five-year old Garek, to owl pellets. I had been ...

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I love revisiting topics students covered in elementary school again in high school. Before I knew better, we used to raise and release monarch butterflies in my Advanced Placement Environmental ...

GRADE SCHOOL. BUT APPARENTLY IT WAS A VERY POPULAR EXPERIMENT OF PUTTING THROUGH THE OWL PELLETS AND SEARCHING FOR BONES TO GO TO IT. WE DID NOT DO THAT. OH, OKAY. BUT IF YOU’VE NEVER DONE THIS CLASS ...

Where do you look for owls? Up in the trees, right? But sometimes, if you see some folks with binoculars assiduously scanning the ground beneath a canopy of pines or Norway spruce, they too might be ...

Sometimes learning can be downright stinky, and when the lesson of the day is dissecting owl pellets, you can take some pointers from students at Toni Morrison Elementary School in Lorain – don safety ...

In college, my friend Ryan who had a mild crush on me gave me a mouse skeleton. He assembled it out of an owl pellet. An owl pellet is basically what the owl throws up (which is a lot, apparently, ...

Last week's moment of nature video featured owls on Plum Island off the Massachusetts coast. I've written about owls several times in this space, including snow owls and short-eared owls. Owls have ...

Having lived with cats most of my life, I long ago got over the "ick" factor associated with things that animals cough up. My fluffy, ribbon-eating cat reveals his secret, forbidden predilection every ...

About 20,000 years ago, a family of owls lived in a cave. Sometimes, they would cough up owl pellets containing the bones of ...

My wife, Linda, does most of our Christmas shopping, but occasionally I’m inspired to buy a few special gifts. A few weeks ago I introduced my grandson, five-year old Garek, to owl pellets. I had been ...