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By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 23, 2012 - 1:14 pm
Photos by Jack McShane.
March is the time for putting up bluebird nest boxes, and cleaning out old ones. Watershed Post reader Jack McShane caught these little field mice red-handed -- er, red-pawed -- taking over a bluebird box on his property in Andes.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 19, 2012 - 3:03 pm
Photographer Christopher Mooney got this beautiful close-up of a golden eagle (or immature bald eagle?) near the shore of the Pepacton Reservoir yesterday.
Posted to the Watershed Post Flickr group. (Local photographers, if you'd like to see your photos... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 17, 2012 - 11:48 am
Photo by Flickr user ucumari. Published under Creative Commons license.
A few weeks ago, we wrote about the DEC's recent proposal to introduce bobcat hunting into new parts of New York State, and extend trapping season in some areas. The story drew plenty... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 30, 2012 - 8:44 am
Photo of bobcat by Flickr user ucumari. Published under Creative Commons license.
New York's bobcat population is growing, says the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). The elusive cats, found mostly in the Catskill, Taconic and... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 13, 2012 - 8:09 pm
A dying deer found last month in Thurman, a town in Warren County, has biologists at the state Department of Environmental Conservation doing some detective work to see if the animal's infection is a symptom of a larger problem.
The agency is asking the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011 - 11:29 am
Photo of wolf in Wolf Park, Battle Ground, Indiana by Flickr user sometimesong. Published under Creative Commons license.
It's official: Wolves are the new cougars.
A study published recently in Northeastern Naturalist, by Roland Kays and Robert Feranec... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011 - 10:12 am
Video: Part 1 of A Pickup Load of Pigs: The Feral Swine Pandemic, a three-part series produced by the Mississippi State University Extension Service. More from the series available here.
Feral pigs are gaining a foothold in western Sullivan County and... Read more
By Jack McShane on Friday, Aug. 26, 2011 - 12:43 pm
Photo of Catskills forest by Flickr user Scott Dexter. Published under Creative Commons license.
We're delighted to bring you the Field Notes column by Andes resident Jack McShane, who writes regularly about the green hills and hollows of the Catskills... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 8, 2011 - 1:55 pm
Photo of red fox by Flickr user digitalprimate. Published under Creative Commons license.
The Sullivan County Democrat reports:
On July 4, Town of Liberty Animal Control Officer Joanne Gerow received a call that an unidentified animal had attacked... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Jun. 25, 2011 - 8:00 am
This photo posted on the Belleayre Mountain Facebook page is too good not to repost. Taken by Ryon Bender, it's a shot of a fisher, a weasel-like relative of the marten, sitting in a tree on Belleayre Mountain.
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