We spent a good bit of time this week mowing; the grass has been growing so fast and we’ve had many rainy days when we…

Yesterday after the skies finally cleared we heard the first wood thrush songs of spring. I had forgotten to expect it and so I was…

May 1: first lightning bugs of the season. I notice that I saw the first of the season on May 9, 2006 and wrote about…

At this spring’s sessions of WebWalkers, WebWanderers, and WebWigglers we are looking at tracks and scat. Perhaps because of the lack of rain there are…

…make one whole tractor (when they’re put back together). Roger Nichols came up to visit us from ChesLen Preserve on Tuesday to split our tractor…

By Dan Barringer, Crow’s Nest Preserve Manager We moved goats Seamus and Duffy up the road on dog leashes a couple weeks ago to their…

I just returned from a vacation in Nashville and was pleased to find that the season hadn’t advanced here too much while I was gone.…

You’ve heard the old expression, “…held together with baling twine”? Now I understand it. When you have livestock you have no shortage of bailing twine.…

With this week’s report that the emerald ash borer (Agrilis planipennis, or EAB for short) has been found for the first time in southeastern Pennsylvania we…

The red-winged blackbirds are active in the cattail swamp. The wood frogs are calling from a vernal pool in the woods, even a few cold…