Once nearly wiped out by overhunting and logging, nest boxes kept wood ducks from vanishing – and volunteers are still putting them up today.

Here's an interesting display of passive survival techniques from a wood duck and family with ducklings where the drake plays dead whilst the others hide. I happened to accidentally stumble upon them ...

In this video, I carve a swan from a large piece of Buckeye Burl using 13 gallons of epoxy. The process starts with cutting the buckeye to size and involves six separate pours of epoxy over two weeks ...