Crow’s Nest: The wildlife camera February 23, 2014Posted by Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager We’ve set up a motion-sensing camera in the woods here for a few months, and I am gradually getting…
Crow’s Nest: Spring is coming… February 15, 2014By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager If I recall correctly our magazine editor put out a request last year for more photos of the preserves in…
Crow’s Nest: More snow & ice February 8, 2014By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager The eastern red cedar behind the visitor center was the first casualty of the storm. Snow broke half of it…
Crow’s Nest: Plow with the snow February 3, 2014By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager These words of advice appear in the snow plow user manual: plow with the snow. By the time the blizzard…
Crow’s Nest: For the Birds January 25, 2014By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager Winter is hard on the wildlife around us, yet they are amazingly adapted to it. We put out bird seed,…
Crow’s Nest: It’s not all plowing and shoveling January 24, 2014By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager While plowing and shoveling took a bite out of the week, we’ve got other projects going on. Winter is when…
Crow’s Nest: The Leopold Chair January 19, 2014By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager Each year, usually around the holidays, I try to treat myself to a special project to complete at the preserve.…
Crow’s Nest: The end of winter(berry) January 18, 2014By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager Today is the day that the robins will finish off the winterberry holly fruit. Yesterday was the day they started.…
Crow’s Nest: Photogenic snow December 10, 2013This snow has been particularly beautiful. When I was a kid, it never seemed to snow before Christmas; I remember because we always wanted a…
Crow’s Nest: Mowing in December December 4, 2013I don’t think I’ve ever done this before in December, but I mowed the lawn around the visitor center yesterday. It’s not that the grass…
