April Flowers
It seems this warm year brought us a lot more March showers and April flowers rather than the traditional saying – thanks, climate change! I do not know what these little ones are but they like to poke up in this same area of grass every year in the early spring. There is always, always…always…more to find out about the world around us. Look up, look down, look all around… Scott Kruitbosch Conservation & Outreach Coordinator
Read MoreNo Migration – Until Now?
Here is an image of last night’s radar taken a little before midnight with strong and heavy avian migration occurring across the Deep South and Gulf Coast. Very few birds made it into the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest, and there was no action in the Northeast. It was yet another night of poor bird movement for us, continuing a pattern and a theme that has persisted for a while this April. We have had lovely weather recently all thanks to northerly-based flows keeping air moving off the land being warmed by the sun as high pressures have been centered over the Great Lakes or Mid-Atlantic. We...
Read MoreMourning Dove
This Mourning Dove was doing what many birds had been recently – hanging out in the warm sun wondering why it was so cold again! But those days are over as we accelerate with rapid nesting and hope that temperatures stay away from the freezing mark or anything near it. What sort of nests and eggs do you have in your yard already?
Read MoreIced Maple
These maple tree buds had a good coating of freezing rain covering them up in ice, too – I cannot imagine this is good for the trees or the wildlife that depends on them! But it was probably not as bad as the prolonged sub-freezing temperatures of the last couple of days… Scott Kruitbosch Conservation & Outreach Coordinator
Read MoreFrozen Forsythia
Here are a couple shots of some very frozen forsythia from yesterday after freezing rain and snow covered flowers across the Northeast region. Spring was here, and it visited very early, leaving us with some winter again for the week. Make up your mind, climate! This is what our climate change future holds more of – a roller coaster ride of weather that kills plants and animals at a more frequent rate than what we used to call “normal” in the four seasons. Scott Kruitbosch Conservation & Outreach Coordinator
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