Dashing Through the Snow?
Happy New Year! We are hoping for more and more snow in the Chautauqua-Allegheny region so that the thousands upon thousands of visitors to Chautauqua County can enjoy our winter trails cell phone tour on snowmobile, skis, hiking or walking, birding and photographing and more. Let’s hope January lives up to its standards and climatology so that our backyards look more like this photo from last winter. ‘Tis the season!
Read MoreBelted Kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon)
While we may be looking for more of that “winter” feeling and some seasonal snowfall, especially in the Chautauqua-Allegheny region for our winter trails cell phone tour, this Belted Kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon) was enjoying an open pond to fish in. After chatting with me for a little bit, rattling away, it went back to its business, looking for prey and then up to the sky. Perhaps it was wondering where all that snow is… Scott Kruitbosch Conservation & Outreach Coordinator
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 MoreCell Phone Tour Work Continues
Now that the harvest season has come to a close, Thanksgiving has passed and all the leaves are finally on the ground, we are getting ready for the snow to fly and for another year of our “Nature at Your Fingertips” cell phone tour to hit the snowmobile trails! Development of this tour was made possible in part through support from the Chautauqua Region Community Foundation. This past weekend we bundled up and erected more of our signs in preparation for the season opener on December 17th (weather willing of course!). This year’s tour will feature 25 stops packed full...
Read MoreWinter Trails Cell Phone Tour Update
This summer has been a busy one as we have been working away on conservation projects, educational programs and multimedia outreach, including our cell phone tours. We are happy to announce that this winter we will be expanding our “Nature at Your Fingertips” winter trails cell phone tour across all of Chautauqua County. Development of this tour was made possible in part through support from the Chautauqua Region Community Foundation. We are very excited to be working with all five county snowmobile clubs as their trails traverse through a number of fascinating natural history...
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