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By Pam Owen
Special to the Rappahannick News
Okay, the flowers are gone, the landscape is gray and brown, and it's cold. Time for us amateur naturalists to head indoors, right?
Not for those with a serious curiosity about nature, and a hearty constitution — or at least a good wardrobe of high-tech winter gear.
Nature in winter does not have the color, or variety of wildlife, that the other seasons offer. Nothing blooms, the insects are gone, many bird species have migrated, and some mammals have hibernated.
It's easy to think that nature offers little but cold, brown landscapes to those of us who revel in nature’s diversity and color during the other seasons.
Actually, nature does has a lot to offer us in winter. We just have to look a little harder, and be willing to get a little colder, to discover it.
Nature reveals its winter beauty in more subtle ways than in the other seasons but also offers new opportunities for studying animal behavior. The animals that do remain active in winter can actually be easier to spot with the leaves off trees
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