Journal Entry – Full of Life
April 14, 2026 – 1:15-2:15pm; overcast, humid, temperature in the mid-70s It was just an hour, but there was so much to see and hear during that hour. Everything that […]
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Journal Entry – Pond Activity
March 22, 2026 – 12:15-1:57pm; Clear sky and hot sun, temperature 88F and climbing It felt hot out in the sun, and it would climb to 95F later on, breaking
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Journal Entry – Crowpoison and Much More
March 13, 2026 – Clear sky, breezy, and temperature in the mid-70s at 3:00pm. I’m starting to think of spring as beginning when March arrives, as opposed to the more
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Goodbye, Winter
Today, February 28, from a morning low temperature of 60 degrees it warmed to 85 near the preserve, almost tying the record of 86 degrees. It was a day for
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The Big Pond and Elsewhere
We are getting into late winter, and it feels like the season is on fast-forward. These warm days may add to that perception, for how can it still be winter
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Real Winter – For a Week
The start of this winter was warm and dry. The days around Christmas reached a little over 80°F, and on New Year’s Day the preserve was 72°F early in the
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The Solstice and the Leaves
After my recent comments about the oaks with green leaves even at the end of autumn, I thought a brief note would be helpful now that the winter solstice has
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Jack o’ Lanterns and a Rumor of Winter
(Adapted and reprinted from Our Lives in Nature) On a late November walk, a young friend and I found several golden orange jack o’ lanterns in the woods, though it
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July, at Night
I wanted to see if there was any frog activity, though really I missed the best chances back in April and May. But Cricket Frogs call and breed throughout the