Ted Levin
CommentatorTed Levin is a nature writer and photographer. His latest book is America's Snake: The Rise and Fall of the Timber Rattlesnake, University of Chicago Press, May, 2016.
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Now that deer season is almost over, I鈥檓 getting ready to reenter the woods in search of lingering waterfowl and early arriving winter finches. But my old鈥�
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Autumn is the time of Homecoming, on college campuses and family gatherings. In the natural world, it鈥檚 the time when birds fly south, and other animals鈥�
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Mowing the lawn under the weight of the summer sun is a wearisome chore - around the house, the garden, the barn; between the upper pasture and the riding鈥�
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My mother was one of eleven siblings, born to parents from Eastern Europe, neither of whom spoke much English when they arrived at Ellis Island. My鈥� -
This time of year, painted, wood, and snapping turtles all over the region are excavating nest holes in sandy fields and along roadsides. At the same鈥�
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My father was a passionate golfer. Throughout my childhood he played on weekends, sometimes thirty-six holes in a day. When he retired in 1982, he played鈥�
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Of the nearly 330 species of turtles, none is more beautiful than the spotted turtle - itinerant visitor to vernal pools, flooded meadows, swamps, and鈥� -
Childs Pond, a small, deep, kettle hole lake in East Thetford, is the beneficiary of a block of ice that separated thousands of years ago from the鈥�
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I鈥檝e been anticipating spring, despite lingering ice in my veins. Despite the wind, the snow, the forty-three consecutive days of below freezing鈥�
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Twenty-eight years ago, when my wife was pregnant with our first son, she decided that we should collect walnuts from a large, sweeping black walnut tree鈥�
