Fall hawk walk at Trout Brook Valley
On Saturday morning, September 20, I joined the Aspetuck Land Trust on a fall hawk walk with over 40 of their members and volunteers at the gorgeous Trout Brook Valley Preserve in Easton and Weston, Connecticut. This major 1,000+ acre conservation area permits passive recreation in the form of hiking, birding, biking, on-leash dog walking, photography and so forth. It is part of one of the largest contiguous areas of forest left in Fairfield County and is home to rare and important amphibians, plants, birds, mammals, reptiles, pollinators and more. Twan and I spent over a year creating a...
Read MoreArrowhead Spiketail (Cordulegaster obliqua)
This Arrowhead Spiketail (Cordulegaster obliqua) can be seen ovipositing, laying eggs, in this stream in June at the Aspetuck Land Trust’s Trout Brook Valley Preserve in Easton/Weston, Connecticut.
Read MoreThrowback Thursday – Twan Leenders
Throwback Thursday! I took this photo of now RTPI President Twan Leenders while we surveyed vernal pools at Aspetuck Land Trust’s Trout Brook Valley Preserve in 2012 during the historically warm March. That memorable day we found so many critical species including some not expected until June!
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