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Mariton: Bird Census

May 10, 2012

by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager This Saturday, Mariton will hold its Migratory Bird Census from 7:30 a.m. to noon.  This is an annual event going…

Mariton: Butterflies

May 5, 2012

by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager (Red Admiral by Carole Mebus) There has been a lot of butterfly activity.  On a recent walk (without binoculars or…

Mariton: New Babies

By Tim Burris, Preserve Manager Bluebirds have hatched!  Four babies, with mouths open, greeted me when I opened one of the boxes.  Unfortunately, in the…

Crow’s Nest: First Fireflies

May 1, 2012

May 1: first lightning bugs of the season. I notice that I saw the first of the season on May 9, 2006 and wrote about…

Mariton: Garlic Mustard

April 27, 2012

by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager Garlic Mustard (Alliaria officinalis) is blooming.  This is one flower that I hate to see.  It is an invasive plant…

Crow’s Nest: Tracks and Scat

April 20, 2012

At this spring’s sessions of WebWalkers, WebWanderers, and WebWigglers we are looking at tracks and scat. Perhaps because of the lack of rain there are…

Crow’s Nest: Two halves of a tractor…

April 19, 2012

…make one whole tractor (when they’re put back together). Roger Nichols came up to visit us from ChesLen Preserve on Tuesday to split our tractor…

Mariton: Road Orange

April 18, 2012

by Tim Burris, Preserve Manger A section of Route 611 between Raubsville and Riegelsville will be closed until the end of June.  In the meantime…

Mariton: New Owl Mount

April 13, 2012

by Tim Buris, Preserve Manager Scott Shoeniger, of Hunter’s Moon Taxidermy, just finished mounting a Great-horned Owl for Mariton.  It is amazing.  This is an…