Marcia with golden eagle (photo by Todd Katzner)
Marcia Bonta is the author of nine books and over 300 magazine articles. The blog portion of this website includes her popular “Naturalist’s Eye” column from Pennsylvania Game News, reprinted here on the 1st of each month. Unlike typical blog entries, these columns are written months in advance, usually about things that happened during the previous year. Read more…
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Nature Books about Brush Mountain — the Appalachian Seasons series, plus a new reprint of Escape to the Mountain
Women Naturalists books
Pennsylvania Outbound Journeys books
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Slide Shows
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Home Ground
The Plummer's Hollow website is a family effort. Some of my journal entries appear in the Notebook section. -
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- eastern phoebe (1)
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- hemlock woolly adelgid (3)
- midges (1)
- mourning cloak (1)
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- royal walnut moth (1)
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- mice and voles (2)
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- opossum (2)
- porcupine (1)
- raccoons (2)
- red fox (1)
- shrews (3)
- striped skunk (2)
- white-tailed deer (7)
- woodchuck (groundhog) (3)
- Nature education (3)
- Old-growth Forests (4)
- Pennsylvania History (7)
- Pennsylvania Places (28)
- Plant Lore (4)
- Poetry (3)
- Reptiles and Amphibians (5)
- box turtles (2)
- hognose snake (1)
- salamanders (1)
- toads (1)
- wood frogs (1)
- Shrubs (2)
- Slide shows (1)
- Spiders (1)
- Spring (11)
- Taxonomy (2)
- Travel Outside PA (3)
- Trees (16)
- red mulberry (1)
- shadbush (1)
- Uncategorized (1)
- Weather (7)
- Wetlands (5)
- Wildflowers (13)
- common milkweed (1)
- wind turbines (3)
- Winter (17)
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