Headed North!
Over the holiday weekend we headed North. We have a camp in Coos County, New Hampshire that we do not get to often enough! It’s an entirely different world up there, …
Get Outside, Get Dirty!
Over the holiday weekend we headed North. We have a camp in Coos County, New Hampshire that we do not get to often enough! It’s an entirely different world up there, …
This past week was a busy one with the launch of our summer project – Backyard Biology 2016, a crowdsourced natural inventory of our community! Residents and visitors to the …
A few weeks ago we pulled over to take a picture of a quite beautiful patch of blooming Epigaea repens. As we were walking back to the Jeep, Keith peeked up …
Find the habitat, find the plants. That’s a good Keith quote. Our friend Parker from White Mountain Mushrooms suggested we try a spot that he had scoped out earlier, and it …
It’s around this time of year that folks to the south and west of us start sharing pictures of spring ephemerals, the glorious first blooms of spring! Spring ephemerals are …
Goal for last weekend – fairy shrimp! Neither Keith nor I had ever seen one, but fairy shrimp are an indicator species of vernal pools and the to-do list for the …
Big Night…. the first warm rainy night of the spring….might be one of the best kept secret in the amphibian world! After hibernating all winter, salamanders, newts and frogs take …
Vaccininium macrocarpon, or large cranberry, is found in bogs throughout New England and is a true native American fruit. You’ve probably driven by a cranberry bog, not realizing that a …
Mosses, liverworts and lichens. That’s what you’ll find in this week’s snow-less March woods! Ptilium crista-castrensis, or Knight’s plume moss, has a unique feather shape that is easy to recognize. …
Sidney Butler Smith Woodland is a Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests tract in Tuftonboro NH. I’d never been there, but Keith had visited it during hunting season …
Water springtails mean we are soooo close to spring! While everyone just a bit south – and east – and west – of us is enjoying Big Night, the official coming …
Yes, there are a few exclamation points on the end of “How to Take Snowflake Pictures!!!!” I’m excited, ok? It takes a certain snowstorm to be able to take snowflake …
It certainly does not feel like winter! The lack of snow is a little worrisome for the spring wild mushroom season (two lack-luster morel seasons in a row would not …
Finally, a new New England wildflower guide. Wildflowers of New England, a Timber Press Field Guide, was just released this week! Written by Ted Elliman, in partnership with the New …
The REAL title to this post is “Opening a Polyphemus moth cocoon or, what to do when it’s cold as f*$%.” A few weeks ago we found a random cocoon …