ZZ Top’s 1983 hit song has been replaying in my head this week after a hearing about a backyard wildlife encounter.

Now is a good time to be like a box turtle.

There are babes in the woods. They also may be in the trees, around your yard and in most any Island habitat. Baby squirrels have arrived.

American writer Lish McBride made this observation: “Fear, left unchecked can spread like a virus.”

Why not live large? With their immense size, blue whales don’t have any other option.

By the time Chris Kennedy of The Trustees of Reservations received a report of a seal on Cape Pogue, the harp seal was already dead.