“Fight a Bite!”
Below is the Chautauqua County “Fight A Bite!” brochure created by the Chautauqua County Department of Health & Human Services Environmental Health Division to educate the local public about reducing our risks of mosquito or tick bites that can lead to serious illness. You can also open the full-size PDF version by clicking here and save it if you like. The brochure provides information on ticks and mosquitoes, repellents and how to use them, tick removal techniques and general safety information. I recommend reading over it if you live anywhere in the Northeast as it...
Read MoreNew York State Young Birders Club visits RTPI
This past Sunday, July 20, the New York State Young Birders Club visited us at the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History. Thanks to the assistance of our friend and supreme naturalist Tim Baird we were able to arrange a visit of several young birders in order to target some of the fantastic and conservation concern grassland species that can be found here in Chautauqua County. RTPI Affiliate Sean Graesser and I met up with the group at RTPI at 7:00AM to head to the Chautauqua County/Jamestown Airport. Unfortunately we have not recorded the New York State “Threatened”...
Read MoreBirder in the making
One of our followers messaged us yesterday, “Just wanted to send along a photo of my young birder (2 years old), who spends hours with the field guide! She was hunting for Snow Buntings here. This guide and the Peterson sticker book of North American birds have been her favorite activities for months – she now refers to birds’ beaks as ‘bills’, and likes to talk about their markings the way that the field notes do.” Absolutely fantastic and very sweet, thank you again! We hope you spread the love to the youngest generation, too.
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