A Mountain Hare

Napping away New Year’s Day

This mountain hare is starting the year off right. It’s used to cold weather and high altitudes—and, since it’s nocturnal, it’s perfectly comfortable sleeping through an afternoon snowstorm in northeast Scotland… Read More @ Bing

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Beech Forest Covered With Frost and Snow

The Battle of the Bulge 75 years later

Seventy-five years ago this week, the Battle of the Bulge began in the forests of the Ardennes, Belgium. On the morning of Dec 16, 1944, the beleaguered German army threw its best remaining troops and armor against a lightly defended section of the Allied line. Bad weather neutralized Allied air superiority and over the first few days, the Nazi offensive produced a ‘bulge’ in the Allies’ defensive line west into Belgium. Desperate to hold the line, US General Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne to defend the strategically important crossroads in Bastogne. The town was surrounded for nearly 10 days by German forces, but the Airborne held out. In fact, a German demand for Allied surrender was rejected with a single word: ‘NUTS’ (a bit of 1940s American slang that needed to be explained to the Nazi officers). In the end, the German offensive was defeated, with US forces having borne the brunt of the fighting—Americans sustained their highest casualties of any single battle in World War II… Continue Reading @ Bing

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Spruce Grouse

One bird you might see if you participate in the northern part of the US or Canada is the spruce grouse. The bird can be hard to spot—it’s known for sitting so still that you don’t notice it until you’re a few feet away and it takes flight to escape. The spruce grouse’s skittish behavior has earned it the nickname ‘fool’s hen.’ … Continued Reading @ Bing

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Two Rhinos

In honor of Wildlife Conservation Day, we’re looking at these two white rhinos strolling through the Amakhala Game Reserve in South Africa—with a friendly oxpecker bird on their tails. The large anklets they’re wearing are used to track the endangered animals and protect them from poaching. Both white and black rhinos live in open savanna, but the adult rhinos’ only real predators are humans who hunt them for the illegal trade of their horns… Continue Reading @ Bing

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