Nature Done Wright
Incorporating the Celery Farm and Screech Owl Companion blogs
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Monday Morning Mystery 103111
An easy one — and a great Halloween Mask… Photographed on a dragonfly walk with The Nature Conservancy in Sussex
Ducks at Dusk Is Tonight; Bald Eagle at Noon
Ducks at Dusk is tonight. Meet at the Warden's Watch (at the Celery Farm) at 5:30 p.m. (still DST). Leader:
Celery Farm Snow
So strange to see fall foliage and snow together. I understand that no major trees are down in the Celery
The Hawk Watcher
Kurt Muenz sent this photo of Stiles Thomas at the Stateline Hawk watch in Alpine. Had to share it. (Thanks,
My latest ‘Bird Watcher’: $%^&%$! Sparrows
My latest Bird Watcher column in The Record today is on identifying those sometimes hard-to-ID sparrows. That's a Fox Sparrow
Banded Red-tail
Patrick Carney writes: "Today [last Thursday] I happened to see a banded Red-tailed Hawk in Oradell near Van Buskirk. I
Monday Mystery Answer(s)
I received two answers for yesterday's mystery — European Hornet and Cicada Killer Wasp. When I first saw the insect,
Allendale Red-shoulder Book!
Jerry Barrack and I have been working hard on the coffee-table book on the endangered Red-shouldered Hawks of Allendale. The
A Parting Lesson from Tom Burr
At Saturday's memorial service for Tom Burr, a dear friend of the Celery Farm, the prayer card featured one of
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Can you identify this (fairly big) bug? It was photographed on a Nature Conservancy walk in the High Mountain Park

