Fledglings make a lot of racket, and none are louder than Red-tailed Hawks. One morning this week I heard a Red-tailed hawk calling repeatedly but I couldn't spot it. I thought it may be a Blue Jay imitating the hawk's call (they are very
The oak slug sawfly (Caliroa annulipes) is neither a slug or a fly. The first thing you notice is the leaves of this swamp oak, they look skeletonized. Turn the leaf over and you find club-shaped translucent worms coated in wet mucus like a slug. It's the
Fledglings have started showing up, like the Bluebirds above they will follow their parents around for a week or so demanding to be fed. Sign up for Nature Walks at Anson B. Nixon Park — Tuesdays 9:30–10:30AM Sign up for Nature Walks at Anson B. Nixon Park — Tuesdays
Photography was difficult during our long stretch of gray rainy weather, But here's the latest observations. Sign up for Nature Walks at Anson B. Nixon Park — Tuesdays 9:30–10:30AM Sign up for Nature Walks at Anson B. Nixon Park — Tuesdays 9:30–10:30AM
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Philadelphia Fleabane has been blooming all over the park in the past week. It's hard to miss, it looks like a small daisy on overdrive. What appears to be a single flower is actually a central disc of hundreds of tiny yellow blooms surrounded by more than 150
Sign up for Nature Walks at Anson B. Nixon Park — Tuesdays 9:30–10:30AM The late April frost damaged many tress at the park, but they have a fallback strategy. Frost damaged leaves stop producing hormones that suppress dormant buds - those buds grow and replace the damaged leaves. which
The last two weeks of Tuesday Nature Walks have been great fun. Sign up here for May nature walks, every Tuesday from 9:30-10:30 am. If these days and times don't work for you contact me here and we'll see if we can make
The last two weeks of Tuesday Nature Walks have been great fun. Sign up here for May nature walks, every Tuesday from 9:30-10:30 am. If these days and times don't work for you contact me here and we'll see if we can make
The next nature walk at the park is Tuesday the 28th of April 9:30-10:30 AM Sign up here I know that bees may not be the most exciting subject for some, but I do find them endlessly fascinating (see The Bees at Nixon Park). Several different mining
The next nature walk at the park is Tuesday the 28th of April 9:30-10:30 AM Sign up here Truth be told it's not all that difficult to get a good photo of a cooperative bird. The small, shy, frenetic ones are another thing entirely. If
The next nature walk at the park is Tuesday the 28th of April 9:30-10:30 AM Sign up here Over the past few years I have observed about 40 different species of bees at Nixon park, around half of those observations have been confirmed by other observers on