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Crow’s Nest: Spring is coming…

February 15, 2014

By 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, 2014

By 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, 2014

By 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, 2014

By 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: The Leopold Chair

January 19, 2014

By 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, 2014

By 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, 2013

This 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, 2013

I 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…

Crow’s Nest/Green Hills: Projects

November 18, 2013

In addition to the invasives management (Norway maples, bittersweet, shrub honeysuckle and autumn olive) that keeps us busy at this time of year, we also…