July Nature Almanac: What to Look for this Month 5 Look for the dark pink flowers of Swamp Milkweed in open wetlands. These flowers often attract wetland butterflies like the Mulberry Wing and Black Dash. 9 Full Moon. 15 Look for American...
Turkey Vulture at Chestnut Ridge HawkWatch by Anna Butler
Join our HawkWatch Team as the Lead Counter CHESTNUT RIDGE HAWKWATCH LEAD COUNTER Bedford Audubon is pleased to announce the availability of a 13-week paid opportunity in field (raptors) biology at our Chestnut Ridge HawkWatch in Bedford Corners, New York. Required...
Variegated Solomon's Seal by Bob Rohr
Find Inspiration with Our Garden Tours this Season Join us this season for a series of area garden tours in New York and Connecticut. The gardens feature both native plants and an exploration of gardens designed by Beatrix Farrand (1872-1959), a pioneering landscape...
Native trumpet honeysuckle by Bob Rohr
Ten Reasons to Volunteer in our Leon Levy Native Garden 1. It’s a great way for you to learn more about native plants— no prior experience necessary, and we welcome all ages and abilities! 2. You’ll get to see and hear lots of fabulous birds that...
Forest of fireflies by University of Florida
June Nature Almanac 5 Look for Hobomok Skippers, a small but striking orange, brown, and yellow butterfly, zipping by you as you walk along the edges of deciduous woods. 9 Full Moon. 15 Listen for Eastern Gray Tree Frogs’ loud, ringing, bird-like trill on warm...
May Nature Almanac May 2017 5-6 Eta Aquariid meteor shower. 10 Full moon. Approximate peak of spring bird migration. 15 Female turtles of several different species headed to specific egg-laying localities. When r escuing a turtle from a road, always put it on the...
Adult male
Hidalgo Co., TX
January 2009
April Nature Almanac April 2017 1 Many shorter-distance migrant birds now arriving or passing through, among them Northern Flicker, both Ruby-crowned and Golden-crowned Kinglets, many sparrow species, and a few of our earliest warblers like Pine and Yellow-rumped. 5 ...
March Nature Almanac March 2017 10 Some wintering waterfowl already returning north for the breeding season. 12 Full Moon. 15 Great Blue Herons now returning to our area and starting to refurbish old nests in their rookeries. 20 Vernal Equinox; first day of...
February Nature Almanac February 2017 10 Full Moon. 15 Listen for the Red Fox’s harsh, screechy bark, usually given at night, as their mating season commences. 25 Sap starting to run in Sugar Maples. 28 The first migrant Red-winged Blackbirds, Common...
January Nature Almanac January 2017 20 Look for springtails, or “snow fleas”, tiny arthropods that are not fleas at all (or even insects) on snow during a thaw. 25 Look for foxes and coyotes stalking and pouncing on voles in low meadows, especially when there is...
