Hildacy Farm Preserve
Red-shouldered Hawks
By Mike Coll, Preserve Manager These Red-shouldered Hawks continue to be year round residents of Hildacy Preserve. If the pair builds a nest again this spring…
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Eastern Black Swallowtail Emergence at Hildacy
By Mike Coll, Preserve Manager One of the things that I appreciate most about living on a preserve is getting to observe natural processes up…
Red Owl Lays Eggs
By Mike Coll, Preserve Manager About two weeks after the Red morph Screech Owl first arrived at the box she began laying eggs. Screech Owls generally…
Screech Owl Pair
By Mike Coll, Preserve Manager Two days after my first ever sighting of a red morph Screech Owl I was pleased to see both the…
Red Morph Screech Owl
By Mike Coll, Preserve Manager Yesterday I got an answer to a question I had been wondering about for a few years: Is it always…
Nest Box Work
By Michael Coll, Hildacy Preserve Manager As April approaches, it is the last chance to prepare nest boxes for the return of migrant species. Throughout…
Hildacy Preserve: Nest box work
By Michael Coll, Hildacy Preserve Manager As April approaches, it is the last chance to prepare nest boxes for the return of migrant species. Throughout…
Carolina Wrens Fledge
Mike Coll, Hildacy Preserve Manager For the second time in three years, a pair of Carolina Wrens made a nest in a little ceramic birdhouse that…
Kestrels at Hildacy
Mike Coll, Hildacy Preserve Manager The American Kestrel is North America’s smallest falcon. It is a cavity-nesting bird that lives in open areas like meadows. Because…
Polyphemus Moth Emerges
Mike Coll, Preserve Manager The polyphemus moth (Antheraea polyphemus), is one of North America’s giant silk moths. I found this one as a caterpillar last fall…