Lighthouse Open House
Last Saturday we held an open house at Stratford Point and the adjacent Coast Guard lighthouse. Visitors were able to enter both sites, the lighthouse usually being private restricted property, and chat with members of the Coast Guard and our staff about everything going on currently and the history of both historic properties. Information booths helped in this effort including one staffed by Audubon Alliance for Coastal Waterbirds technician Ewa Holland who gave out brochures on our efforts to help birds and humans share the shore successfully as well as information on Roger Tory Peterson...
Read MoreStories From Cherry Creek
As winter approaches we have been busy researching sites for Roger Tory Peterson Institute’s cell phone tours. This season we have added Cherry Creek Sno-Goers’s trails to the tour, amongst the other clubs. As a consequence I, who live in the Cherry Creek area, have been getting to know a few of my neighbors better and discovering interesting stories about our neighborhood. One day Clyde Rodgers, owner of the local Cherry Creek business Rodgers and Sons Farm Equipment Supply, took Elyse, I and Cherry Creek historian Sharon Sweeting on a bumpy four wheeling drive into Nichols Gulf just...
Read MorePlain Plume Moth (Hellinsia homodactylus)
The Plain Plume Moth (Hellinsia homodactylus) is one of those neighbors of ours that we would never notice were we not actively seeking out such small, subtle creatures. Some of our birds, butterflies, dragonflies, and mammals can be easy to find. Spend some time outdoors trying to find the less noticeable life all around you.
Read MoreMay Speaker – Twan Leenders
With so much happening at RTPI and all of the active conservation and education work we are completing this spring and summer in our local area we decided that our own President and Executive Director Dr. Twan Leenders should be our May speaker. Please join us on Wednesday, May 21 at 7:00PM at RTPI for this free and educational event. Twan is a biologist from The Netherlands interested in animal ecology and conservation management. For more than twenty years his work with birds, mammals, plants and especially tropical amphibians and reptiles has taken him to various places on the planet. As...
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