Nature Done Wright

Incorporating the Celery Farm and Screech Owl Companion blogs

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August 17, 2009
By Jim Wright

Great Egret fest at Celery Farm

   Counted 10 Great Egrets feeding in the shallows by the Pirie Platform, and two more flying, at dusk tonight.

August 17, 2009
By Jim Wright

Monday Morning Mystery 081709

   I recently found this bad boy in my house — he was not even paying rent. I evicted him.

August 13, 2009
By Jim Wright

Rob Fanning Report 081309

  Rob sez: Very slow morning–but it was salvaged by a PRAIRIE WARBLER along No Name Culvert–my earliest fall record for

August 12, 2009
By Jim Wright

Just Plain Nuts

  Seymour Drakes encountered this nutty Chipmunk near the Butterfly Garden recently. Seymour says he tried to pronounce the chipmunk's

August 11, 2009
By Jim Wright

Kevin Karlson Shorebird Day

   Seymour Drakes notes that noted avian photographer Kevin Karlson, who started his birding career at the Celery Farm, is

August 10, 2009
By Jim Wright

Monday Morning Mystery 081009

   Sally Teschon found these attractive and delicate fungi in the wood-chip pile at the north end of the Celery

August 8, 2009
By Jim Wright

Pileated Alert

  For what it's worth, Jim Morris reports he saw four Pileateds at Campgaw in Mahwah around noon today —

August 7, 2009
By Jim Wright

Rob Fanning Report 080709

The cold front brought in some nice birds on this picture perfect morning–highlighted by an extremely cooperative WORM-EATING WARBLER–my first

August 6, 2009
By Jim Wright

My Record Column Today

    My birding column in The Record today, on Page 4 of the Better Living section, deals with what do

August 5, 2009
By Jim Wright

Bug Pic

  Saw this myopic fly at the Native Plant Garden at Hawk Mountain recently. Just liked the way it looked

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