I am often grateful for living where I do, specifically having such easy access to nature and a job that allows me to explore it to a degree few people are regularly able to. This leads me to see lots of neat things. I get to see exciting birds like swans, ducks of all sorts, and my first ...
Winters were brutal throughout most of New England in Colonial America. It snowed a lot, often into spring, and there were no radiators (or antibiotics). Many settlers didn’t survive the season, but because the ground was frozen solid, the colonists couldn’t bury their dead in real time. ...
What are nature preserves, and why does Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy have them? Our planet has a total of 6,555 national parks. Nature preserves are essential to protecting our natural world’s diverse species of flora and fauna. A nature preserve is an area of land set aside from ...
Dreaming of a beach vacation? My guess is you’re picturing a palm tree. Fantasizing about life on a remote island? You’re probably envisioning a walk among birds of paradise, cannas and bananas. Nothing conjures up the feeling of the tropics like giant, lush-leaved plants, and if you ...
As the late summer yellows and purples of goldenrod and aster fade and hummingbirds wave good-bye to western New York, we watch in awe as nature shares her graceful surrender to change with a gradual chorus of color that sings to our senses and plays to our eyes as their leaves dance and sway ...
The temperatures are dropping, the trees are putting on their annual color show, and Halloween is less than two weeks away. October is on full display, both in nature and in people’s homes. While I have never been someone who pulls out all of the stops for Halloween, I do make the time to ...