voles – Cottage Country Lifestyle Magazine Inc.

Thursday, March 27, 2025

Latest:

FEATURED Home & Cottage

January 27, 2025January 22, 2025 Cottage Country 114 Views animals, bark, biting winds, Bobcaygeon, Buckhorn, cache seeds, Canada, carnivorous shrew, Carol Moffat, CCC Publications, Celsius, Cold Comfort, cold temperatures, comfort, Communities in Cottage Country, Community, cottage, Cottage Country, Cottage Country Connection, cottage country lifestyle, Cottage Country Lifestyle Magazine, Cottage Country Magazine, Cottage Life, coyotes, dangerous predators, deciduous trees, energy, family, Fenelon Falls, fish, fishing, foxes, free, grasses, gravity, habitat, Haliburton, Haliburton Highlands, hibernate, hibernation, home, insects, insulate, jacket, Kawartha Lakes, kawartha magazine, Kawarthas, Kawarthas Magazine, Kids, lake, lakefield, larva, latin, Life in the Subnivean Zone, Lifestyle Magazine, Lindsay, lodging, logs, mammals, matter, mice, nature, nives, nuts, Ontario, Owls, Peterborough, prey, prints, red squirrels, Rick Whitteker, rocks, safety, sensors, serrated feathers, shrews, slugs, snow, sound, stucco ceiling, sub, Things to do, underground tunnel networks, voles, warm – blooded animals, wildlife enthusiast, wildlife migrate, winter, wolves, Your Lifestyle Magazine

Cold Comfort: Life in the Subnivean Zone

Most wildlife migrate, hibernate, or insulate to adapt to winter conditions in cottage country. However, some small mammals adapt to

December 7, 2024December 5, 2024 Cottage Country 239 Views animals, Author & Executive Director of Camp Kawartha, award-winning outdoor education centre, Blankets, Bobcaygeon, Buckhorn, build, Canada, CCC Publications, chills, Christmas, Communities in Cottage Country, Community, cottage, Cottage Country, Cottage Country Connection, cottage country lifestyle, Cottage Country Lifestyle Magazine, Cottage Country Magazine, Cottage Life, family, Fenelon Falls, fort, fresh air, frigid, garbage, Haliburton, holes, home, insulate, Jacob Rodenburg, Kawartha Lakes, kawartha magazine, Kawarthas, Kawarthas Magazine, Kids, lakefield, Lifestyle Magazine, Lindsay, mice, Ontario, pads, Peterborough, quinzhee, recycling, sleeping bag, snow, snow crystals, snow fort, subnivean environment, summer camp, tarp, Things to do, traditional, ventilation, voles, wind, winter, Your Lifestyle Magazine

Build a Snow Fort!

While it feels cold to the touch, believe it or not, snow is actually a wonderful insulator. Animals such as

FEATURED Outdoors

May 29, 2024May 27, 2024 Cottage Country 256 Views ants, Austria, bacteria, barred owl, bats, bears, beetles, biodiversity, biologist, birds, birds of prey, Black-capped Chickadee, Canada, CCC Publications, chipmunks, common goldeneye, Communities in Cottage Country, Community, cottage, Cottage Country, Cottage Country Connection, cottage country lifestyle, Cottage Country Lifestyle Magazine, Cottage Country Magazine, Cottage Life, deer mice, eastern bluebird, ecology, ecosystem, escaping predators, feeding, fern, fishers, frogs, fungi, great-crested flycatcher, groundskeeper, grubs, Haliburton, Haliburton Forest and Wild Life Reserve, Haliburton Highlands, Health, hemlock trees, hibernating, hike, home, insects, kawartha magazine, Kawarthas, Kawarthas Magazine, kestrel, Lifestyle Magazine, log, martens, mice, microbial life, mosses, Mozart, mycorrhizal fungi, nature, nature writer, nesting, Ontario, outdoor, Paul Heaven, perching, raccoon, Ralph Baehre, rearing young, Rick Whitteker, roosting, roots, salamanders, saw-whet owl, seasoned trail guide, shrews, slugs, snails, snakes, soil, spiders, spring, squirrel, squirrels, stilts, storing food, summer, tree, Victorian era, voles, wet-skinned amphibians, white breasted nuthatch, wildlife enthusiast, wood duck, woodpeckers, worms, Yellow Birch, Your Lifestyle Magazine

Embrace the Mess!

It takes a concerted effort to shed the shackles of our Victorian era perspective when it comes to the beauty