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Pond-erings
When the girls and I visited the pond at the university nature preserve earlier this week, a man was wading in the water, picking up trash. A woman was helping him, pointing out…
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Herons
Cornell has a second nest-cam up, this one of a great blue heron nest that’s viewable from their building. It’s incredible that such a large, gangly bird starts as such a tiny egg!…
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First day of spring
We went for a walk at our favorite wetland preserve to see what we could see on this first day of spring — at least, according to the calendar. I guess it depends…
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Weekend sights
The girls and I took a walk in the snow the other day. Now I have shots of this path, which my youngest calls the tree tunnel, in three of the four seasons.…
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Making the most of the sun
Today promises to be rainy around here, but yesterday was sunny. We capitalized on it by taking two walks, each to a different preserve. The first was a marsh about 5 minutes from…
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Wetland walk
We went to the beaver pond to investigate the beaver-gnawed tree we’ve been observing and found it felled. At several points they have already removed branches and carried them away, and they’ve begun…
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A bit about beavers
We’ve been observing the beaver activity at a nearby wetland lately. Their lodge is not too far out on the pond, surrounded by water. In the summer we would see turtles sunning themselves…
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Beavers and other matters
Last night, we visited the wetland we so enjoyed during the summer. The flood in September curtailed our visits for awhile; we went in maybe a week after the flood, and it was…
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Read-Aloud Thursday: Herons
We’re into herons around here this week. We saw no less than 6 of them at a nearby pond we visited the other day, and it sparked enough interest to read every word…
