By Derek Stoner, Education Program Assistant A Winterberry cloaked in fresh snow. What a fine surprise to look outside in the morning and find the landscape draped in a layer of white fluffy snow. As snowflakes fell in northern Delaware, a normal November day transformed into a winter wonderland. There is always a sense of magic in …
By Jason Beale, Manager, Abbott’s Mill Nature Center Yesterday morning’s 20 degree temperatures and high winds left no doubt that we are well into fall and that winter weather is making its move. With only the oaks and arrowwoods still clinging to their leaves, we sought out the sunny niches sheltered from the wind. The thicket at …
By Sally O’Byrne – Teacher Naturalist The Snow Goose trip, twice postponed because of rain, finally went this evening with snow flurries in the forecast. Driving along rural roads near Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, we spied blankets of geese foraging in far-off fields. Knowing it was getting towards dusk, we entered Bombay Hook as the first of …
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By Sally O’Byrne, Teacher-Naturalist… Yesterday morning, 8 intrepid participants joined me and William (Bucktoe Creek Preserve Land Manager) on the weekly Monday morning bird walk at Bucktoe. I took the group to the field where Joe and I had found a passel of sparrows and a very dull Pine Warbler last week. The field was empty …
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