The final bridge on our local section of Harmonyville Road has been completed and the road is open. This bridge was built in State Game…

This has been a good year of growth for a species of wild lettuce that we see at Crow’s Nest: blue lettuce (Lactuca biennis). It…

Now that summer is ending I am finally getting around to compiling data that was gathered at the beginning of the season. On June 9…

In addition to spending some time on the beach this summer with a good old-fashioned paperback novel, I read some nonfiction related to my interests…

As the summer winds down we bid goodbye to our summer interns, Ryan Byrne and Jessica DePaolis. We couldn’t run summer camp and manage the…

Crow’s Nest camp has finished for the summer, which makes us sad but gives the staff and volunteers some needed rest. Our wonderful 7th and…

There are a bunch of local events going on over the next couple months. At Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site (next to our Crow’s Nest Preserve)…

This twelve-spotted skimmer dragonfly (Libellula pulchella) paused in our goat pasture at Crow’s Nest: And here is an unusual sunset from last Friday night: It…

There’s still a little bit of nesting going on out there. This cardinal is nesting right under our kitchen window in the winterberry holly bush:…

At last the seasons and weather have cooperated so that the culvert replacement that was begun last year could be completed. Last year’s record rainfall…