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April Animal Surprise

admin — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 20:25:24 +0000

Here is one of our favorite squirrels.

It is a Gray Squirrel. Small, local populations of gray squirrels have this gorgeous coffee color. This one lives in our neighborhood because a wildlife trapper released it here. As a Gray Squirrel, it is noticeably slimmer than the local Fox Squirrels. And it spends more time up in the trees. It’s the only one that can leap to our platform feeder, too.

Howler Monkey Sounds

admin — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 01:07:44 +0000

Here are three recordings I made in Panama. Just click on the call and a sound player will come on screen. You can also hear toucans grinding their bills and parrots flying past in these recordings. Sharp ears might hear hummingbirds clicking and other tropical forest birds calling.

Howler call

Howler call2

Howler call3

Howler Monkey Links

admin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:51:26 +0000

Meet the Howlers was just released. To listen to my howler monkey sound recordings, check my book page, here. National Geographic also has photos and a bit of information:

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/howler-monkey.html

Some better sounds are on an NPR story about Greg Budney, the noted sound recordist. It takes a while for the NPR player to load, so be patient:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92926828

Also, check out Naturesongs, which has lots of recordings of different types of creatures in this and other habitats.

http://www.naturesongs.com/costa.html

Happy Howling!

Meet the Howlers Is On Its Way!

admin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:57:51 +0000

February marks the release of my new book, Meet the Howlers! (illustrated by Woody Miller, published by Charlesbridge).This nonfiction, rhyming read aloud looks at the life of a howler monkey from the perspective of a child who is a bit envious about the things wild howlers can get away with that a human child cannot. ”A solid read-aloud for young animal enthusiasts. Ages 4–7″ –Publishers Weekly. Charlesbridge has made a wonderful poster out of the cover art. To download it, visit their site and scroll down to the bottom of the page at www.charlesbridge.com.

November: a Tail of…

admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:29:53 +0000

I see this on the tree trunk outside my window. The animal’s name rhymes with whirl. One of its more specific common names is the traffic light color that indicates “stop.” It often sits and chews open pine cones, so it’s sometimes called “piney.” Got it? I’ll say more next month.

September Animal Mystery

admin — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:04:47 +0000

You guess what it is! It’s one of my favorite animals. It swims. It lives in the tropics. It eats grass.

June…Woodchucks

admin — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:15:34 +0000

WHAT ABOUT WOODCHUCKS?

There are plenty of people out there to love whales and pandas. But what about woodchucks? I ask you. Who loves them?

How fuzzy wonderful do you have to be? How rare do you have to be before people notice you? Where are the woodchuck t-shirts, bumper stickers, and earrings?

My friend Margaret, a librarian in Goshen, loves them. She’s just wild about them. Out in the western U.S., people climb mountains just to see marmots. Oh, hurray, marmots! Watch them scamper up rocky slopes. Well, have you looked at a woodchuck?

It’s a marmot. It just lives in yards, fields, and woods.

My husband and I call them “yarmots,” a name drawn from yard marmot, our own personal term.

Come on, let’s appreciate the underappreciated. Okay, so they’ve eaten my garden a few times. But then I built the big, big, fence suggested by Rodale, the publishers of Organic Gardening. Oh, and I grew so many other plants that the woodchucks can eat, that they don’t think of the garden. They don’t even get around to it.

Scholastic Science Readers by Lily Wood

admin — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 22:04:23 +0000

These books have simple language and short sentences for beginning readers. These three books were published under the pen name, Lily Wood.
Bats is for Level 1, ages 5 and 6. 0-439-29585-8
Volcanoes is for Level 2, ages 7 and 8. ISBN 0-439-29582-3
Skeletons is for Level 2, ages 7 and 8. ISBN 0-439-29586-6
These are also available in a sturdier edition with different ISBN.