Great Horned Owl

Rattle Snakes. There are Violet-green Swallows, Brazilian Free-tailed Bats, Townsend’s Big-eared Bats, Pacific Tree Frogs, and Pika, in the cave mouths and interior passages. In the lake shore areas of the Lava Beds, there are Skunks, Raccoons, Great Horned Owls, and Short-eared

Where is a good place to travel to? What place would I love to travel to? The place that I would love to travel to Orange County. Orange County, California, a south western city, has many activities, tourist sites, and beautiful beaches; one being Huntington Beach. I have always wanted to go there and tour the area and do all of their activities. This is the place I have wanted to go to since the first time I heard about it. There are tons of activities to do in Orange County. They range from water

includes, but isn't limited to: iconic bald eagles, fishers, bobcats, mountain lions, great horned owls and kit foxes. These instances remain high after the Golden State took concrete steps to reduce rodenticides in July

In the 1560s the ownership of the Florida Peninsula was hotly contested. The French had preemptively built a small fort, Fort Caroline, near what would become Jacksonville, Florida. In 1565 the Spanish marched from St. Augustine and took this small fort, slaughtering some 200 people. Then, they chased down the remaining French Huguenots near a small inlet. Believing that his men would be well treated, the leader surrendered to the Spanish. The Spanish slaughtered them to the last man in an act that

flying overhead to their nighttime destination. I witnessed squirrels frantically gathering acorns for a future winter feast. A flock of turkeys took roost for the night in some trees far across a field from me. When I heard the bellow of a great-horned owl in the distance, I knew legal daylight would soon end. Nevertheless, I was still full of hope as the dimming woodland was bustling

The Urocyon cinereoargenteus is also known as the Grey Fox, which is a medium-sized carnivore. “The gray fox is 1 of only 2 extant members of the genus Urocyon (the other is U. littoralis, the Channel Island fox)” (Bozarth). It is very interesting that foxes share the Canidae Family with “wolves, dogs, coyotes, and jackals.” (Habitat). A grey fox is closely like the red fox but there are some differences, such as the grey fox is slightly smaller and is also darker in coloration. The coloration of

Description of Ecosystem Lake Winnipeg is the 2nd largest watershed in Canada and the 10th largest lake in the world. It includes parts of four provinces and four of the American states, lying on the boundary between the low relief Interior Plains and the Southwestern Canadian Shield. The drainage basin is 1,000,000 km2. More than 7 million people call Lake Winnipeg home. It has the last remains of the glacial Lake Agassiz. Red, Winnipeg, and Saskatchewan rivers all flow into Lake Winnipeg which

The realistic setting is one of a farm; while students may not live on a farm, it is still a realistic setting that students understand. Second, Owl Moon provides characters that seem real to its readers, a daughter and a father. Last, the theme of family relationships, as the father and daughter take their stroll they learn things about each other, watching and growing together. This book demonstrates

through the oaks and maple trees I find the tree I will sit in. My father set the the stand in the tree a few weeks before my arrival. I crawl up and as I sit down it is just getting light in the east. I sit and wait. The lonely call of a great horned owl breaks the silence of the early morning. A few minutes later I hear the calls of a wolf to the north. I know there will be more howls and within two minutes other wolves start calling. They are talking to each other, telling their pack where

Iowa Wild Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. —Ralph Waldo Emerson I sleep the sleep of mothers—which is to say, I wake at the noises my husband snores through. In the waxing light of day, coyotes yip and howl a few miles down the creek. Though these tricksters are no threat to us, their calls have woken me early. Grabbing my glasses, I sit up and soak in the rare site of my boys peacefully lying next to one another—no arguing, no wrestling, no teasing. Three daddy longlegs cling to the