Ed Godfrey Where did the birds go?My wife and I were excited to see bluebirds in our Edmond backyard for the first time during the Arctic weather earlier this month, the same backyard I've mowed for the past 33 years.Four bluebirds were attacking our backyard bird feeder on one bitterly cold day. Mark Howery, a wildlife diversity biologist for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, said those must have been desperate birds, because bluebirds don't normally come to bird feeders.Howery speculates the bluebirds may have been finding some exposed sunflower seeds from chipped hulls in...…Ed Godfrey Where did the birds go?My wife and I were excited to see bluebirds in our Edmond backyard for the first time during the Arctic weather earlier this month, the same backyard I've mowed for the past 33 years.Four bluebirds were attacking our backyard bird feeder on one bitterly cold day. Mark Howery, a wildlife diversity biologist for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, said those must have been desperate birds, because bluebirds don't normally come to bird feeders.Howery speculates the bluebirds may have been finding some exposed sunflower seeds from chipped hulls in...WW…

Ed Godfrey Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt killed a black bear Thursday while bowhunting in McCurtain County on the opening day of bear season.A photo of Stitt, the bear, and his hunting guide, Tom Cartwright of Holdenville, was posted Saturday on the Facebook page of J.D. Strong, director of the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation.Oklahoma's archery bear season in southeast Oklahoma runs through Oct. 18. Bear hunting is legal in southeast Oklahoma east of State Highway 69 and south of Interstate 40, which covers all or portions of 12 counties.The large majority of bears in Oklahoma are...…Ed Godfrey Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt killed a black bear Thursday while bowhunting in McCurtain County on the opening day of bear season.A photo of Stitt, the bear, and his hunting guide, Tom Cartwright of Holdenville, was posted Saturday on the Facebook page of J.D. Strong, director of the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation.Oklahoma's archery bear season in southeast Oklahoma runs through Oct. 18. Bear hunting is legal in southeast Oklahoma east of State Highway 69 and south of Interstate 40, which covers all or portions of 12 counties.The large majority of bears in Oklahoma are...WW…