Simple steps for making yards animal kingdoms tuary

The Wild Life by Todd McLeish



Budding trees and longer days means the season of gardening has returned. While you focus on making your yard more colorful and appealing, it’s also a good time to think about how you can use your landscape to attract wildlife. Whether you live in suburbia, in a rural zone, or even if your “yard” consists of an apartment balcony in the city, you can provide a place that will benefit wildlife.
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Birds serenade users of bike paths

The Wild Life by Todd McLeish



Early spring is the time to keep an eye out for mammals awakening from their winter naps and migrating birds arriving from their tropical wintering grounds. It’s also time for the rest of us to shake off the winter doldrums and get a little exercise. At bike paths around Rhode Island, you can do both at the same time.
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Birds take risks using backyard feeders

The Wild Life by Todd McLeish



As much as I love those wildlife programs on television, I always get queasy when they focus on predators such as lions and hyenas. I love learning about the life histories of those amazing creatures, but I have a difficult time watching as one beautiful animal catches and tears apart another beautiful animal. Yet it’s not just on television that I watch that happen. It happens all the time in my back yard, too.  
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Rome Point best spot to watch harbor seals

The Wild Life by Todd McLeish



Seal watching has become a popular winter pastime in recent years as the population of harbor seals in southern New England has boomed following passage of the Marine Mammal Protection Act. Whereas sightings of seals in Rhode Island waters had been something to celebrate a few short years ago, today they can be easily observed from numerous locations.
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Invasion of finches is welcome sight

The Wild Life by Todd Mcleish



Southern New England is experiencing an invasion of uncommon finches from the north, and people interested in seeing the unusual birds should be on the lookout. These five species of birds typically spend their lives in the boreal forests of Canada and northern New England, and they only occasionally venture south when their preferred natural foods – seeds of birch and pine trees -- are unavailable.
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