Yes, I admit it. I am a nut about nature. Not just the big amazing birds and animals such as eagles and bears, but the small critters too. I realized this (again) on my recent trip to Colorado. I ...

Adult: relatively small, slender; moderately long tailed. Whitish gray throat, pale gray breast with whitish transition to pale yellow belly. Brown crown and brownish gray back separated by subtle ...

Length 8". Very similar in all plumages to the yellow-­bellied, but with slightly more red on the head. Adult male: the red crown is bordered by black, with a small red patch below black nape bar ...

Groundhogs don’t live in our region, but yellow-bellied marmots do. And in case you didn’t notice, they live in the shadow of their groundhog cousins. But these rodents with tummies the color ...

It was cold and the wind was blowing hard, but there I was with two friends scanning the whitecaps of Rose Valley Lake, hoping for a fallout of waterfowl and vagrant species. Winter birding in these ...

Not just the big amazing birds and animals such as eagles and bears, but the small critters too ... road and just below me were several yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris).