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Mariton: Nest Box Quiz

June 9, 2011

The Chickadees have left the nest boxes.  We ended up with 14 birds fledging out from this round of nesting.  The Tree Swallows are hatching. …

Local food, fun & fundraisers

If you’re into local music and local food then this weekend, June 11 and 12 you should attend the Maysie’s FarmFest 2011. Maysies Farm Conservation…

More fire training completed

Two more staff from Natural Lands Trust completed the federal S-230, Crew Boss course this week at the Mid-Atlantic Wildfire Incident Management Academy. Tom Kershner…

Mariton: Turkeys At The Door

June 8, 2011

On Saturday, while tallying the numbers from the Bird Census.  I heard something knocking upstairs in the Nature Center.  I went upstairs and saw five…

Mariton: Butterfly Season

June 7, 2011

The Tuesday Butterfly Walks began this morning, and we saw about ten species of butterflies.  That is a great number for this early in the…

Welcome Crow’s Nest Interns!

We are pleased to welcome this summer’s interns to Crow’s Nest Preserve: Meredith Mayer (center in photo) is returning this summer as an Educator at…

Mariton: May Rainfall

June 6, 2011

It rained quite a bit in May (4.66 inches), but it was an average rainfall for the month.  With the first four months of the…

Mariton: Almost Fledged

June 5, 2011

Two sets of Chickadees are preparing to leave their nest boxes.  There are eight fledglings in this photo.  You can see they are feathered out,…

Mariton: Nesting Bird Census

June 4, 2011

(Ovenbird with a caterpillar.) Today was the THIRTIETH (30th !!!) Annual Nesting Bird Census at Mariton! Using our ears and eyes we tally all the birds…

Mariton: Butterfly Walks

(Red-spotted Purple) The Tuesday Morning Butterfly Walks will begin now that the Bird Walks have concluded.  Starting Tuesday, we will meet at Mariton at 9:00…