April 2011 - Page 2 of 3

As Clear as Glass

April 20, 2011

I attended a great lecture at Lafayette College entitled: An Overview Of Bird Mortality At Windows: Cause and Prevention Challenges. Dr. Daniel Klem, Jr., of…

Mariton: Flowers and Birds

April 19, 2011

I am still finding Hepatica (Hepatica americana) on trails like the River Lookout and Chimney Rock. There is a patch of Dutchmen’s Britches (Dicentra cucullaria)…

Crow’s Nest spring scenes and trends

April 18, 2011

On an evening walk I could see just the top of this barn over the rise of the farm fields at Crow’s Nest, with a…

Crow’s Nest: Soft day in the woods

April 15, 2011

With the rain this week the wildflowers were temporarily muted. But the rain made for a beautiful, soft day in the woods anyway. I didn’t…

Mariton – Bluebirds Nesting

April 13, 2011

A pair of Bluebirds has finally started nesting at Mariton. I have been faithfully monitoring the nest boxes for over a month. This is the…

Keystone Trails Association coming to a preserve near you…

This weekend our region will be hosting the annual meeting (and associated hikes) of the Keystone Trails Association. Conference attendees will be treated to a…

Crow’s Nest: What a difference a week makes…

April 12, 2011

Last week the only things blooming here were red maples and quaking aspens. This week, too many to keep up with! On Saturday the bloodroot…

Prescribed burn of meadows at Crow’s Nest

We held our first prescribed burn of the year yesterday, a little late in the season but finally the weather cooperated. We burned half of…

Big Preserve, Small Steps

This weekend Owen and I visited Sadsbury Woods Preserve. We didn’t see much of this lovely 513-acre preserve, but we sure got into crawling around…

Mariton – Hepatica

April 11, 2011

I have been looking for Round-lobed Hepatica (Hepatica americana) ever since Dan told me he had found Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) blooming at Crow's Nest Preserve. …

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