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.…

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…

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…

The woods behind the visitor center barn and the tenant house at Crow’s Nest Preserve lead down to French Creek, and provide a wildlife corridor…

Birders have been visiting Crow’s Nest Preserve over the last few weeks to see red-headed woodpeckers (Melanerpes erythrocephalus). We’ve seen them here occasionally over the…

We are past peak fall color but it is still glorious here. Last week’s storm knocked many leaves off but the oaks in have come into…

Actually, it was after work yesterday that I decided to investigate the newly-flooded beaver wetland by boat. I borrowed a kayak (thanks, Pete!) and paddled around…