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1 week ago | 
countryliving.com | Terri Robertson
If you haven’t heard, Sunny and Gizmo, the beloved bald eaglet siblings of Big Bear Valley could fledge the nest any day now, and today the fledge watch is really heating up. At peak times, over 60K YouTube viewers are tuning in to the live nest cam maintained by the nonprofit Friends of Big Bear Valley in California’s San Bernardino Mountains.
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1 week ago | 
countryliving.com | Terri Robertson
It’s graduation season, and at the Fort Worth Zoo in Texas the graduates wear feathers instead of caps and gowns. The graduating class of May 2025 includes 12 lesser flamingo chicks (Phoenicopterus minor), hand-reared by zookeepers in a nursery and now ready to thrive in the zoo’s adult habitat for its lesser flamingo flock. In the video below, you can watch the “graduation walk” of six of the chicks, ranging from two to three months old, who left the nursery in early May.
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2 weeks ago | 
countryliving.com | Terri Robertson
You’ve heard about pollinator gardens. Perhaps you’ve even added a shelter in your yard to attract mason bees. But are you watering your bees? According to Eric Mason, expert backyard beekeeper and executive director of the nonprofit Save the Bee, it’s a major way you can support bees in your area. “Bees are like any animal—they need water just like we do,” Eric explains. “The pollen that a bee gathers from a flower is the protein that a bee uses in its diet.
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2 weeks ago | 
countryliving.com | Terri Robertson
It has been quite the year for the bald eagle family (and bona fide reality stars) of the Friends of Big Bear Valley live nest cam in California’s San Bernardino Mountains. Fans have been watching closely since Jackie and Shadow, the famous mated pair, began readying their longtime nest for the season.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Terri Robertson
It has been quite the year for the bald eagle family (and bona fide reality stars) of the Friends of Big Bear Valley live nest cam in California’s San Bernardino Mountains. Fans have been watching closely since Jackie and Shadow, the famous mated pair, began readying their longtime nest for the season.
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2 weeks ago | 
countryliving.com | Terri Robertson
On a recent episode of HGTV’s Home Town entitled “Darlin’ Cottage,” Ben and Erin Napier tried their hands at one of the biggest interior design trends of the year—the scullery. “Sculleries were hot in the 1600s, I think, and they are back,” Erin explained in the episode. “A scullery is kind of like the messy kitchen.
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3 weeks ago | 
countryliving.com | Terri Robertson
In my household, we’ve lately been mastering the art of rotating streaming services. It can be a pain to keep switching them on and off, but it helps us keep our entertainment budget from bursting at the seams while maximizing what we can watch, even if we have to wait a bit. And you never know—maybe when you cancel, they’ll offer you a better deal (it’s happened to me once this year). Yesterday, my husband texted me—Peacock is offering a whole year for $24.99 right now with the code SPRINGSAVINGS.
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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Terri Robertson
Gazing upon May’s full moon tonight? Chances are, you’ve seen it called the Flower Micromoon. In my time at Country Living, I’ve also covered a “Blood Worm Moon” and a “Super Blue Moon.” These fun names are simply combinations of a few factors that may apply to any given moon. In one category, you have your common names for lunar events—think eclipses, full moons that pass by particularly close or far from Earth, and bonus full moons that occur within a single calendar month or season.
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4 weeks ago | 
sg.style.yahoo.com | Terri Robertson
Lilacs have been filling my Instagram feed lately—lilac bushes in full flower, bountiful bouquets of cut lilac stems in the arms of smiling gardeners, and lilac blooms piled high in baskets or gracefully spilling over the tops of mason jars and galvanized buckets.
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4 weeks ago | 
countryliving.com | Terri Robertson
Two recurring supernatural characters return for the much-anticipated season 4 finale of Ghosts on CBS tonight. And though Patience the Puritan (Mary Holland) and Elias, Hetty’s diabolical husband (Matt Walsh), always make for a good episode, fans of the show know that the top concern is always the fate of “The Main Eight” (ghosts, that is), plus Samantha and Jay (the two main “livings”), or 10 main characters in all. But, there’s another main character that you might be forgetting—the house.
