2+ hour, 6+ min ago  (330+ words) A juvenile Red-shouldered Hawk can be difficult to see in the woods it calls home, but the graceful raptor is easier to observe when it takes to the sky. It's certainly not time to trade the binoculars and the spotting…...

1+ week, 23+ hour ago  (675+ words) Piping plovers were on the brink of disappearing from the Napatree shorebird fauna, but management policies have walked the birds back from the edge. Many of the Napatree plants are starting to go green. but the coastal lichens, such as…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (395+ words) Although rare throughout the region, the ridge has long hosted our largest woodpecker, the crow-sized Pileated. The flower flies are among the first insects to head to the blossoms and perform their critical pollination services. While many of the early…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (202+ words) On the first trip of the season to Napatree, a chance meeting with a fellow birder pointed the Naturalist and company in the direction of Piping plovers. Nowhere is this situation better described than in Robert Frost's 1936 masterpiece "Two Tramps…...