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July 2, 2018
By Jim Wright

Weirdest Monday Mystery Ever

What is the critter featured above? Two things: It's dead, so I was able to photograph it closeup in this

July 1, 2018
By Jim Wright

High Mountain Dragonflies

If you park near the end of Scioto Drive in Franklin Lakes and walk straight into the High Mountain preserve

June 30, 2018
By Jim Wright

Butterflies Trickling Into Fred’s Field

  Saw a few skippers in the Green Way field yesterday but none today. Spanworm Moth, too. Still a couple

June 30, 2018
By Jim Wright

A Terrific Post by Don Torino

Don Torino has a great post — a column, really — on the Meadowblog. All about birds and nature and

June 29, 2018
By Jim Wright

Turtles Still Laying Eggs in My Yard

Yesterday morning, a red-eared slider spent more than an hour laying eggs in our newly re-landscaped front yard. I wish

June 29, 2018
By Jim Wright

Monday Mystery Answered (?)

On Monday, I wrote: Saw this hungry little caterpillar near the CF a little while back. Can anyone I.D. it?

June 28, 2018
By Jim Wright

Fred’s Butterfly Field @ Green Way

Fred Weber has been working on the field at Green Way for ages, planting native plants that attract butterflies and

June 28, 2018
By Jim Wright

My Column: Shore Birding

My latest column for The Record today is about where you can go birding at the Shore this summer when

June 27, 2018
By Jim Wright

Free Celery Farm Watercolor

Not sure how I got this, but am running out of room in the house and thought someone else might

June 26, 2018
By Jim Wright

Interactive TV at the Fell House!

When Elaine Kiernan Gold, historic preservationist for Bergen County, recently visited the Fell House, she had a surprise observer. This