As winter approaches, a silence creeps over the natural landscape. Songbirds are mostly quiet now, not to resume their cheery singing until early next spring. Bees have stopped buzzing. Katydids and ...

In spring, songbirds serenaded us with sweet song each morning in the “dawn chorus.” In summer, the monotonous droning of cicadas and katydids day and night gave us that season’s iconic sounds. But ...

Thousands of eerie black birds have descended on Mansfield. Some soared in on feathers. Others are shaped from clay or paint.