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Author: Neil A. Case

The Great Outdoors 

Birds As Weather Forecasters – Life In The Outdoors

December 17, 2021December 20, 2021 Neil A. Case
It’s December. Another year has passed, almost. I’m thinking of previous years, long ago, years when I was a boy, when I lived in a small town in northwest Iowa. December was winter in Iowa. Real winter. A freezing temperature every day, often ... Read more
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Rare Bird Spotted In Indiana – Life In The Outdoors

October 8, 2021October 8, 2021 Neil A. Case
We were cruisin’, my older daughter and I, my daughter driving, on back roads, country roads, watching the fields we passed, noting how the scenery has changed in just the few weeks. Many of the leaves on the trees have changed from green to yellow ... Read more
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MY EXPERIENCE WITH DEER – Life In The Outdoors

July 30, 2021August 2, 2021 Neil A. Case
“I need to decide on a subject for my next article,” I said to my daughter recently, and she responded, “Write about deer.” The next morning, coincidentally, I saw two whitetail deer, an adult followed by a spindly legged fawn in the field on the ... Read more
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BIRDS ARE IN DECLINE – Life In The Outdoors

July 16, 2021July 17, 2021 Neil A. Case
I’ve been on the road, traveling with my older daughter as she drove from our home in Indiana to up state New York, to a family gathering. After a few days of reminiscing and visiting, my daughter drove us back to Indiana. As my daughter drove I watched ... Read more
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UPSIDE DOWN BIRDS – Life In The Outdoors

February 12, 2021February 12, 2021 Neil A. Case
Two nuthatches flew to the feeder outside the dining room window as I sat eating breakfast, and watching the birds outside, of course. Nuthatch, I read in a book titled “Words for Birds,” is a corruption of the word nuthack. And nuthatches do ... Read more
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CRANES BY THE THOUSAND – Life In The Outdoors

December 18, 2020December 18, 2020 Neil A. Case
In “A Field Guide to the Birds” Roger Tory Peterson described the sandhill crane as “a long-legged, long-necked gray bird with a bald red forehead.” Standing, a sandhill crane is over five feet tall. Peterson described the great blue heron ... Read more
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BIRDS OF THE NIGHT – Life In The Outdoors

December 4, 2020December 7, 2020 Neil A. Case
This article is about birds of the night; owls. These are birds that are active when most other birds are sleeping. Owls have always been of particular interest to me. As a boy, growing up in northwest Iowa, I was interested in all birds but particularly ... Read more
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WHITE-THROATED & WHITE-CROWNED, RARE BIRDS – Life In The Outdoors

October 23, 2020October 27, 2020 Neil A. Case
A white-throated sparrow is a rare bird to me. It has always been a rare bird to me. Its nesting range is Massachusetts and northern New York north into the evergreen forests of northern Canada, well north of my home in northern Iowa when I was a ... Read more
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DUCK HUNTING WITH BINOCS – Life In The Outdoors

September 25, 2020September 28, 2020 Neil A. Case
I’ve been duck hunting recently, with a pair of binoculars. I’ve driven to a pond or lake with a road along the shore, then driven slowly along the shore, stopping often, scanning the shore, the water beyond, and the sky above the water. ... Read more
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BUTTERFLIES, THEN & NOW – Life In The Outdoors

August 14, 2020August 17, 2020 Neil A. Case
Butterflies were numerous then, in summer and into the fall, when my brother and I were boys. Butterflies were common and numerous. My brother and I each had a net on a pole, a butterfly net, and we chased butterflies, often. Those we caught, and ... Read more
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MIMIC THRUSHES HAVE DISAPPEARED – Life In The Outdoors

July 31, 2020August 3, 2020 Neil A. Case
What kind of bird is this, a friend asked, showing me a picture she had of a brown thrasher. I doubt my friend would have asked me the name of that bird many years ago. It was a common summer bird in Iowa where I grew up and in most of the other states of ... Read more
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FIREFLY IGNITES THOUGHTS OF CHANGE – Life In The Outdoors

July 17, 2020July 22, 2020 Neil A. Case
I saw a firefly, one firefly, early one morning, before dawn, near the end of last month. It was the first, and only, firefly I’ve seen this summer. I used to see dozens, hundreds, of fireflies every night in summer when the weather was fair. ... Read more
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MASKED VISITOR AT THE BIRD FEEDER – Life In The Outdoors

July 3, 2020July 10, 2020 Neil A. Case
It was late evening, after dark, and I was going to bed. But, before going to bed I decided to get a drink from the kitchen. Going through the dining room on the way to the kitchen I turned the dining room light on and looked at the bird feeders outside ... Read more
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RARE VISITOR TO OUR MARSH – Life In The Outdoors

May 22, 2020May 22, 2020 Neil A. Case
A mink bounded across the road in front of my older daughter and plunged into the marsh at the edge of our pasture a few days ago. My daughter was walking along the side of the road with our dogs when the mink crossed their path. ... Read more
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LOOK FOR BIRDS, NOT PEOPLE – Life In The Outdoors

April 24, 2020May 3, 2020 Neil A. Case
It’s spring. Birds are migrating, have been migrating. Early migrants, robins and bluebirds and red-winged blackbirds to name a few, are now nesting. Woodchucks have waked and come out of their holes after long winter naps. Wildflowers are ... Read more
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PLAYFUL RIVER OTTER – Life In The Outdoors

February 28, 2020March 6, 2020 Neil A. Case
A friend told me a few days ago that she thought I should write about a mammal. “You’ve written several articles about birds recently,” she said, “and you’ve written about the weather. How about a mammal?” ... Read more
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BITS OF WEATHER LORE – Life In The Outdoors

February 14, 2020February 26, 2020 Neil A. Case
It’s a dark and dreary winter day. The sky is gray. The temperature is below freezing by our thermometer. There’s a cold wind, I found when I went out with our dogs soon after getting up. Snow fell last night and covers the ground, though it’s only ... Read more
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WHERE ARE THE WINTER BIRDS? – Life In The Outdoors

January 31, 2020February 9, 2020 Neil A. Case
Dark-eyed juncos and tree sparrows fly back and forth to the bird feeder outside my dining room window every day now, except when the wind is strong and the weather especially wintry. They’re winter visitors, birds from northern Canada. On ... Read more
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AMERICA’S ENVIRONMENTAL PIONEER – Life In The Outdoors

December 20, 2019December 25, 2019 Neil A. Case
George Bird Grinnell, that’ right, George Bird, has been called “America’s Environmental Pioneer.” He had what was described as a “restless drive to save the West.” Yet he was not a westerner. He was born in Brooklyn in 1849, moved with his family ... Read more
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A WHITETAIL CROSSING – Life In The Outdoors

December 6, 2019December 24, 2019 Neil A. Case
I was driving on a highway through a woodland one cloudy, cold winter day recently. Trees and brush lined the road. It was a quiet road, no critters, not even a single bird. Then, suddenly, a deer bounded out of the cover ahead and across the road ... Read more
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A PLETHORA OF NATURE BOOKS – Life In The Outdoors

November 22, 2019November 24, 2019 Neil A. Case
The sky is gray. The temperature is near freezing. The wind is raw and leaves are falling from the trees, coloring the ground with flecks of brown and red and yellow. It’s a dreary day, a day when I plan to stay indoors, to read, to write and to observe ... Read more
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OSAGE ORANGE AND WILDLIFE

November 8, 2019November 15, 2019 Neil A. Case
Osage orange is a thorny deciduous tree that grew in Osage Indian territory, northern Texas, southeast Oklahoma and Arkansas. The fruits are round, baseball size to softball size and rough, like oranges. They’re green until ripe, then orange. ... Read more
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KILLDEER, SHOREBIRD OF THE FIELDS – Life In The Outdoors

August 30, 2019September 6, 2019 Neil A. Case
I was driving near home one cool, clear pleasant morning recently when I saw the birds. Two of them. They flew up from the side of the road, almost beside me, then across the road in front of me. The instant I saw them, instinctively, I stomped on ... Read more
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BIRD DECLINE, NUMBERS & SPECIES – Life In The Outdoors

August 16, 2019August 20, 2019 Neil A. Case
As I drove into town one clear morning recently, looking for birds along the road as I always do, I saw fifteen birds, just fifteen; fourteen swallows perched on the power line along the road and one robin that flew across the road ahead of me. Fifteen ... Read more
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CUCKOOS INSIDE AND OUT – Life In The Outdoors

August 2, 2019August 20, 2019 Neil A. Case
My cuckoos are calling; the cuckoos in my clocks, three of them, coo-coo coo-coo coo-coo. They’re telling me it’s now noon. They don’t distinguish between day and night and give me the same signal at midnight. I have a fourth cuckoo in a clock ... Read more
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