Few things make a person question every life decision faster than noticing an owl doing lazy laps around their house at 2 a.m ...

It was a wild, stormy night. The evergreen boughs, loaded with ice, swayed heavily in the wind, sighing and moaning as they scraped against the house. In the deep, despairing darkness, many may have ...

Marvin Bouknight has been director of Discovery Place Nature, formerly called Charlotte Nature Museum, for the past four years. The animal exhibitions, butterfly pavilion and outdoor area at the place ...

In my first house, the signature sound of the evening came from the whip-poor-wills, repeating their names over and over in the mild summer dusk. WHIP-poor-will, WHIP-poor-will, they would call, in a ...