Kyle Felling

This week on Discover Nature, crappie are spawning in shallow water across Missouri.These popular panfish occur nearly statewide in open water or near…

In Missouri’s woods this time of year, there’s something new to see every day. For weeks, redbud blooms have stolen the show, painting pink streaks…

This week on Discover Nature, while enjoying spring in Missouri, keep a watchful eye to the ground for snakes leaving their winter dens. The eastern…

This week on Discover Nature we watch for the water strider.

This week on Discover Nature, turkey vultures begin to return to Missouri.These large, black-bodied birds, sometimes called buzzards, are actually related…

While cruising down a Missouri highway this winter, keep an eye out for a predator on the prowl. Often known as “highway hawks” for their roadside…

This week on Discover Nature, listen for the eerie calls of bobcats in the wild.Several hundred years ago, bobcats lived throughout the United States.…

This week on Discover Nature, get outside and enjoy a show of fall foliage, fruits, fungi, and flowers. Fall color in Missouri’s trees has been off to a…

Discover Nature this week, and listen for the sounds of autumn, as a sonorous chorus of crickets carries across the night air. Frogs such as spring…

Celebrate the arrival of autumn this week, and watch for a variety of ripening tree nuts falling to the ground. Many Missouri native trees produce this…

This week along Missouri waterways, watch for one of our state’s bright-red wildflowers in full bloom. Cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis) grows in wet…

Discover nature this week, and watch for baby snapping turtles, hatching from eggs near Missouri’s streams, ponds, and wetlands. Snapping turtles occur…

Listen at the water’s edge this week, and you’ll likely hear Missouri’s largest frog, and official state amphibian. Growing up to eight-inches long, the…

Bird nesting peaks in late spring, and paying close attention to this seasonal behavior can show us more about the birds we see around us every day. While…

Spring storms bring the threat of damaging wind, hail, flooding, and erosion, but they also restore life to the landscape – providing nutrients to plants…

This week on Discover Nature, a poisonous perennial wildflower shows off bright red- and yellow-blossoming spurs.Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis) is in…

This week on Discover Nature, as we all hunker down and do our best to stay home, a reminder that we’re not alone: Missouri’s Canada geese are starting to…

This week on Discover Nature take a walk outside, and you may hear one of the first serenades of spring on the horizon. Spring peepers have spent the…

In the waning weeks of winter, keep an eye to the Missouri sky for honking flocks of snow geese (Chen caerulescens). These medium-sized geese are mostly…

This week on Discover Nature, watch for river otters on frozen water.Well suited for life in water, otters have streamlined bodies, fully webbed feet, and…