Ring-billed Gull in the low sun
Winter is coming. This Ring-billed Gull’s face is illuminated by a low sun as our days are becoming shorter and shorter. Are you ready to feel the coming season in this week’s weather? Snow and frigid temperatures, in relative terms for mid-November, are on the way as waterways freeze even faster than last year. Lake Superior has ice supposedly a full 10 days ahead of fall 2013. However, I doubt we will see the heart of this winter nearly as cold as that extreme season. Bundle up! Scott Kruitbosch Conservation & Outreach Coordinator
Read MoreEvents this week
Please join us at RTPI or at SUNY JCC’s Jamestown Campus for these three events coming up in the next few days. All of them are great opportunities for learning about out region, nature, conservation, science, art, biology, natural history and more. Best of all these are all free and open to the public. We hope to see you there – times three! “The State of Jamestown’s Waterways and their Surrounding Habitats” – September 24, 2014 A lecture presented by John Jablonski, Executive Director of the Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy, and Twan Leenders, President of the Roger Tory...
Read MoreHappy Earth Day!
Happy Earth Day! RTPI Affiliate Sean Graesser decided that since Google was using a hummingbird to represent Earth Day he’d do the same with this quick composite of a few of the species he worked with this year thus far.
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