All posts from the 'NATURAL HISTORY' category:
I've never thought about underwater animal tracking, but this picture tells the tale of a sturgeon foraging expedition. The image is from a paper I recently came across about sturgeon feeding beha [...]
Last week at Cape May Point, several stretches of trail were swarming with ground-nesting solitary bees! I think they are Ptilothrix bombiformis, known as hibiscus bees. Fording the swarm was not [...]
The good luck with turtle sightings continues! On a 12 mile kayak paddle along a remote stretch of the Delaware Bay shoreline, we saw an adult loggerhead sea turtle surface ahead of us a short dist [...]
Here's a Worm-eating Warbler, one of the highlights of our last trip to band birds in the swampy woods near Cape May. They are a relatively common nesting species in the deep woods of south Jerse [...]
The Delaware Estuary is full of life this time of year. Among the summer residents of the Bay are Loggerhead and Kemp's Ridley sea turtles. It's not clear how many are out there, but enough turtle [...]
This is an Aaron's Skipper. I found it resting on a Spartina stem on a cool day last week. Its one of three skipper species that are dependent on salt marshes. The other two are [link url="http: [...]
I surprised this clapper rail at its nest. Rails usually slink off quietly when a person approaches their nest, but when they have chicks or when the eggs are very close to hatching, the adult works [...]
Heard the evening song of the ovenbird in some local woods at sunset. They save it for the end of the day. listen: http://t.co/zxoDj6X7
Saw the possum in the backyard heading into explore the compost pile at sundown. On the menu: Porgy bones and strawberry tops.
