Nyfywildlife next door: a guide for quiet observers

An independent guide to watching wildlife near your home. It is not a news outlet, a zoo or a veterinary service, and it has no connection to the previous website on this domain.

Archive

Archive

In this section the guide's pages are listed by publication date, from newest to oldest. The topic tag next to each entry lets you filter for just what interests you: birds, mammals, found animals or watching itself. Below you will find a note about an address left over from the previous website. If you arrived via an old bookmark and did not find what you were looking for, try the guide sections or the questions page: the topic you need may already be covered there.

The beauty of an archive is that you do not need to remember a title: it is enough to remember who you wanted to read about.

— Editor's view

An entry appears in the archive only after the page has been published and checked. We do not keep drafts here, copy other people's material or restore pages that were on the domain before the guide existed. When an article is updated, we keep it in the same place in the list so that links you have saved keep working. The topic tags are shared across the whole guide: "birds", "mammals", "found animals" and "watching".

2026

The domain's old address

Before this guide, the domain hosted a different website. Nyfy has no connection to it and does not reproduce its material. We kept one old address that readers still arrive at and placed our own newly written note on how bears spend the winter there. It contains no retelling of the earlier text and no information about any events, only general facts about dens, hibernation and how to behave if you meet a large animal. That page is in Russian.

  • Bears in winter (in Russian) — /society/medvezhata-rodivshiesya-zimoy-v-ufimskom-volere-vyibralis-iz-berlog/
  • Reference

    An observer's glossary: fledgling, nesting season, migration, hibernation, den, burrow, tracks, disturbance distance.

  • New

    A feed of the guide's articles with dates and topic tags.

  • Sections

    Four sections: birds outside the window, animals in the park and garden, found animals, and quiet observation.

  • Collections

    Reading paths: helping birds through winter, exploring nature with children and who comes out in the park at night.

Sources

  • Popular zoology and ornithology handbooks for nature lovers (general information)

This guide describes watching animals and birds in general terms as of the date it was prepared. We do not give treatment advice for people or animals: if a wild animal bites or scratches you, see a doctor right away, and leave injured or weakened animals to wildlife rehabilitation specialists.