Kyle Felling

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…

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…

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 along Missouri’s streams, ponds, swamps, wetlands, and ditches, watch for salamanders undergoing a life-changing transformation… Nearly…

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, seldom-seen salamanders find love in late winter. Eastern tiger salamanders grow to seven- to eight-inches in length, with…

This week on Discover Nature, watch for an ecological engineer, and unsung steward of streams. The American beaver is North America’s largest rodent and…

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

Discover nature on a warm summer evening this week and watch the sky for Missouri’s only true flying mammals as the stars come out. Flying and feeding,…