Discover Nature Notes

You don’t have to travel “down under” to see a pouched animal. Missouri has the opossum, a tree climbing, baby-on-board carrying, creature of the night.

As spring warms to summer nature makes new sounds. The evening’s toad and frog chorus makes way for a symphony of insect sounds. One of the loudest and most familiar calls belongs to the katydids.

The delicate features of a deer fawn always seem to bring an “ooh” from even the gruffest of folks. A fawn’s endearing look of helplessness has caused many to be taken from the wild.

A deep, bellowing “jug-of-rum” call resounds through the hot night air from a nearby pond. And, you understand how the bullfrog got its name.

People can buy camouflage clothing in patterns that blend with cattails, tree bark or even snow.  Wild animals don’t need to worry about camouflage because most of them have it built in.

Wildlife and people alike enjoy the delicacies growing wild for the picking in nearby woods and fields.