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Send us Fan Mail Imagine a tiny, 12-acre island in the middle of a South Carolina lake. Now imagine one million birds gathering there to spend the night. Welcome to Bomb Island. In this edition of Naturally Scott Adventures, Scott Harris takes us to Lake Murray, South Carolina, home to one of North America's most extraordinary bird spectacles: the annual gathering of Purple Martins before their migration to South America. Every summer, hundreds of thousands of these beautiful swallows converg...

Send us Fan Mail Imagine being 100 feet beneath the ocean's surface, clinging to rocks as a powerful current threatens to sweep you away. Visibility is poor, the water is cold, and suddenly an enormous shadow emerges from the murk. An oceanic manta ray, with a wingspan approaching 20 feet, glides overhead. Then it turns, looks directly into your eyes, and circles back. For bestselling author Sy Montgomery, that encounter was unforgettable. In this episode of Naturally Scott, Scott Harris welc...

Send us Fan Mail Imagine standing just a few feet from a 6,000-pound marine mammal—three tons of muscle, blubber, and attitude. Now imagine watching two of these giants battle for control of a California beach. Welcome to the world of Northern Elephant Seals. In this edition of Naturally Scott Adventures, Scott Harris travels to Piedras Blancas, just north of San Simeon along California’s spectacular Highway 1, to experience one of the most remarkable—and accessible—wildlife spectacles in Nor...

Send us Fan Mail Title E80 John Squires – Canada Lynx, Wolverines & a Lifetime in the Wild Buzzsprout Description Canada Lynx and wolverines are two of North America’s most elusive mammals. Most of us will never see either one in the wild. John Squires has spent decades following both. In this episode of Naturally Scott, Scott Harris sits down with John, a research wildlife biologist with the Forest Service’s Rocky Mountain Research Station, whose career has taken him deep into the snowy ...

Send us Fan Mail Every March, one of the greatest wildlife spectacles in North America takes place along a relatively short stretch of Nebraska’s Platte River. Roughly a million Sandhill Cranes migrate north each spring, and an estimated 80 percent of them funnel through the Platte—a remarkable migration bottleneck where enormous numbers of these ancient birds gather to rest and refuel before continuing toward their breeding grounds. In this edition of Naturally Scott Adventures, Scott ...