Nature Done Wright

Incorporating the Celery Farm and Screech Owl Companion blogs

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August 29, 2018
By Jim Wright

World’s Most Amazing Fungus?

When I participated in a mushroom-foraging event at the John Burroughs Nature Sanctuary on Saturday, one of the experts showed

August 28, 2018
By Jim Wright

Stalking Wild Mushrooms @ Slabsides

Headed up to the John Burroughs Nature Sanctuary in the southern Catskills last Saturday for an instant education in mushrooms

August 27, 2018
By Jim Wright

River Story Night: Sept. 23

I am pleased to be part of Bergen SWAN's Hackensack River Story Night next month. The fund-raising event will feature

August 27, 2018
By Jim Wright

Monday Morning Mystery 082718

I've seen a lot of dragonflies at the Celery Farm this summer. Can you I.D. this one?

August 26, 2018
By Jim Wright

Tonight’s Full Moon is A Sturgeon Moon

… and I finally put these stuffed fish to good use.  

August 26, 2018
By Jim Wright

A Kiosk for High Mountain

It wasn't easy, jack-hammering four 20-inch-deep holes into solid basalt, then assembling a very complicated kiosk with a half-baked set

August 26, 2018
By Jim Wright

My Backyard Bird Photos on Line

The Record just created a slideshow of 10 of my favorite backyard birds. All the photos were taken in my

August 24, 2018
By Jim Wright

Turkey along Franklin Turnpike

Perhaps because Ben Franklin wanted to make them the national bird instead of the Bald Eagle, Wild Turkeys often try

August 24, 2018
By Jim Wright

Best Nature-friendly Project by a Dam Site

Several years ago, when I first heard that the New Jersey chapter of The Nature Conservancy planned to remove a

August 23, 2018
By Jim Wright

An 1899 Article about ‘Slab Sides’

The very first edition of "Bird Lore," published in 1899 and edited by Bergen County's own Frank Chapman, featured an

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