Wildlife Archives - Page 3 of 6 - Give A Shit About Nature

If you’ve hung wind chimes hoping to keep birds off your garden, porch, or fruit tree, you’re not alone. It’s an in [...]

White-tailed deer are built for winter. They enter the cold season carrying stored body fat, their metabolism slows to conserve energ [...]

Straight up: yes, skunks can spray more than once. A skunk on a full tank can spray up to five or six times in succession before depl [...]

Window decals for bird safety are one of those products where buying it feels like solving the problem. You’ve seen the hawk sh [...]

Windows kill a staggering number of birds every year. Feeders, if neglected, can spread disease through visiting flocks. Outdoor cats [...]

For garden birds visiting a feeder, an occasional piece of bread probably won’t cause lasting harm, but it’s also doing n [...]

From the jump, I’ll tell you this: touching a toad won’t give you warts. That particular myth has been around long enough [...]

If you want hummingbirds in your yard, the instinct is to look up a list of plants, buy whatever’s available at the garden cent [...]

If you’ve ever discovered your trash scattered across the driveway after confidently installing a “raccoon-proof” l [...]

If you’ve spotted a bobcat in your yard or on a trail recently, you’re not alone. Bobcats are the most common wild cat in [...]