Life in the soil -- Rock-solid foundation -- The spreading chestnut tree -- When the bough bends -- O Tannenbaum -- Reading tree leaves -- Hot- and cold-blooded moths -- Woolly and wondrous -- Winter guests -- Arctic bumblebees -- Beating the heat, and killing with heat -- Bee-lining vs. bee homing -- Beetles and blooms -- Cooperative undertaking : teaming with mites -- Whirligig beetles : quick paddlers -- Ravens on my mind -- A birdbrain nevermore -- Ravens and the inaccessible -- Phoebe diary -- Conversation with a sapsucker -- Hawk watching -- Kinglets' realm of cold -- The diabolical nightjar -- Nutcracker sweets -- Hibernation, insulation and caffeination -- Cohabiting with elephants : a browsing relationship -- The hunt : a matter of perspective -- Endurance predator -- Synchronicity : amplifying the signal -- What bees and flowers know -- Curious yellow : a foray into iris behavior -- Twists and turns -- Birds coloring their eggs -- Birds, bees, and beauty : adaptive aesthetics -- Seeing the light in the forest.