Mariton: The Foggy Dew October 18, 2018by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager. Photos by Carole Mebus. We started out in dense fog on the second Tuesday Walk. We were seeing lots of…
Mariton: Wet and Warm August 17, 2018by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager Since mid-July we have received over 10 inches of rain at Mariton. That is a lot of rain. With the…
Mariton: Spider Moon August 16, 2018by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager The full moon in August is known as the Sturgeon Moon, as that is when native peoples caught this fish…
Mariton: Summertime Insects August 10, 2018by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager. Photos by Carole Mebus. Carole Mebus made a trip into the fields recently on a very hot morning. She was…
Mariton: For the Love of Maps August 8, 2018by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager I hope you have been following the Crow’s Nest Field Notes on their summer camps. This year their focus was…
Mariton: Protecting White Ash Trees July 24, 2018by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager Tom Levendusky and I recently put Tubex tubes on the stump sprouts of white ash. You may remember that these…
Mariton: Indian Pipes July 20, 2018by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager Indian Pipes (Monotropa uniflora) are up and blooming at Mariton right now. This wild flower lacks chlorophyll and taps into…
Mariton: Scale on the Tuliptrees July 14, 2018by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager If you have walked at Mariton recently you have noticed the shiny leaves along the trails. I noticed the “honeydew”…
Mariton: Always Learning June 26, 2018by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager. I have been monitoring nest boxes for over 30 years now. Back in the late 1990’s I started getting Chickadees…
Mariton: Yellow Warblers and other birds May 10, 2018by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager. Photos by Carole Mebus. We went birding at Giving Pond this week. As expected, we saw and heard lots of…
