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Crow’s Nest: A little piece on Radio Times

October 5, 2014

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager There was a nice plug for the preserve on Friday’s NPR show, Radio Times. It’s a piece entitled, Autumn leaves and…

Crow’s Nest: The meadows have it!

September 26, 2014

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager This is a spectacular time of year to see our meadows. The warm-season grasses such as Indian grass (Sorghastrum nutans, foreground…

Crow’s Nest: The Eastern Comma

September 25, 2014

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager I spotted this butterfly on the fence rail the other day. Naturally, I didn’t have my camera with me—but I…

Crow’s Nest: An early Autumn walk

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager We’ve had some glorious weather, and now that we have some much-needed rain I have time to upload the photos…

Crow’s Nest: New steers

August 12, 2014

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager If you read the Crow’s Nest Facebook page you already know about this: We’ve added a couple new steers at…

Crow’s Nest: The Extraordinary Ordinary

July 15, 2014

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager In the everyday, is the extraordinary. Above, broadleaf or bitter dock (Rumex obtusifolius), a common weed of croplands and disturbed…

Crow’s Nest: Getting to summer

June 22, 2014

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager It’s been a busy late spring with some incredibly beautiful weather (except for just a couple days, it has been…

Crow’s Nest: The Barn as Ark

June 4, 2014

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager It’s the time of year when the farmer is putting up hay: mowing the fields, tedding the hay to help…