A hive has wintered in a hole in a walnut tree, just below the hole where a rat snake lives. A woodchuck (perhaps) living under an outbuilding still makes its way to the bird feeder every night. The black bear will probably rip out the wooden rungs on that feeder, as it did last year. Coyotes will howl and the fisher will scream — creatures circling us, the wolves at the door of our human health. The bees swarm three times, and I must get closer than six feet to coax them into an old bee box.

Source: New York Times June 19, 2020 15:00 UTC