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Pocket gophers are fossorial rodents named for their fur-lined, external cheek pouches. A fossorial animal is one adapted to digging and lives primarily, but not solely, underground.

There’s an attractive, mid-sized black wasp out and about this time of year that has a unique home-making habit.

Recently, I have been delighted to see a small group of Common Mergansers on the river.

The other day at Mount Pisgah, I found an insect that I’ll likely never see again. Neither will you. That’s because this individual isn’t colored like the others in its species.

I saw a bird
quietly alight on a branch.