Everything WNY and Only WNY
The very mention of an eclipse brings a sense of excitement to any skywatcher. Eclipses are not only uncommon, but there’s something eerie in a celestial body disappearing. Next week,…
In what seems to have become a rite of winter throughout Western New York, it’s almost certain that rural residents living within a couple of miles of large dairy farms…
Swallow Hollow, which we profiled in this column in 2016, is far and away the most popular hiking trail in the Iroquois Wildlife Refuge, sometimes affectionately known as the “Alabama…
All WNY News columnist Bob Confer was recently awarded the Cap Creal Award for journalism from the New York State Agricultural Society. Confer, who pens the weekly “Exploring the Niagara…
The feeding of songbirds is incredibly popular in rural Western New York. A majority of homes have one or more bird feeders. This writer maintains two sunflower stations, a nyjer…
When snowy owls make their periodic irruptions into the northern states, those beautiful birds get all the ornithological press. That often overlooks the other feathered friends that visit us from…
Over my 42 years I’ve seen some significant swings in wild turkey populations on the Niagara Frontier. Over the first half of my life, turkeys were common in the Southern…
Chances are, that if you live in rural Western New York you’re a backyard astronomer of sorts. You might find yourself outdoors on a cool, clear winter night marveling at…
Everyone has their “official” sign of winter. They might consider the start of Jack Frost’s domain to be the first snowfall of the season or maybe Thanksgiving or the winter…
Trying to figure out what to get an outdoors enthusiast for Christmas can be a daunting task, especially if the shopper really isn’t an outdoorsy person. So, for the past…