Field Notes
Digging out
By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. We’re pleased to say we’re all cleared out at Crow’s Nest Preserve. Cody started plowing last evening and resumed this…
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Christmas Bird Count at Stroud
by volunteer Kathy Dale National Audubon’s Christmas Bird Count has been conducted since the year 1900. The program began as an alternative to the Christmas…
buhbye, bamboo.
Bamboo is a genus of invasive plants from Asia that are extremely difficult to remove. Like all invasive plants, this quick-growing grass takes over where…
New Year’s Day outdoors
By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Sure, it’s exceedingly cold this week, but by next week who knows? There are people enjoying the preserve even today,…
Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease in Deer
By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Chester County last had an outbreak of Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHD) in deer in 2018. In 2024 there were also…
Volunteers rock
By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. We had a great group of volunteers join us this morning for a brisk workday spreading two tons of gravel…
The Oculus
By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. If you know me you know I like things that make me look at a landscape in a different way.…
Powered by Nature at Crow’s Nest Preserve
By Ian Palkovitz, Associate Director of Education, NorthBay Adventure. Last week I had the joy of facilitating a pollinators lesson with Pottstown fifth graders at…
Happy Halloween!
By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. It’s a time of year when we enjoy frightful things, so how about this hammerhead flatworm, a three-lined planarian (Bipalium pennsylvanicum)…
More Red-headed Woodpeckers
By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. It was 2013 when we last saw Red-headed Woodpeckers in large numbers at Crow’s Nest Preserve. Birders still occasionally report…