by Trudy Irvine | Jun 30, 2021 | Birds, Mammals, Nature
by Trudy Irvine, Member Education Committee Over the last year have you: Observed social distancing?Stockpiled “supplies” (raised eyebrow) for an upcoming period of enforced isolation?Spent the winter in your burrow, emerging from a state of torpor only to raid...
by David Anderson | Jun 29, 2021 | Nature
by Trudy Irvine | May 20, 2021 | Environment, Forest & Wildlife, Nature
Mayflies, or shadflies are hatching in great numbers. Relatives of dragonflies and damselflies, these short-lived insects belong to an order fittingly named Ephemeroptera. There are many species all over the world and in our area. They became known as...
by Trudy Irvine | Aug 19, 2020 | Nature
by Trudy Irvine, PaBIA Education Committee A day trip to the Key Harbour area this past Saturday resulted in my first sighting of a North American River Otter. With my dogs and the rest of my party forging ahead on a walkabout of the outer island on which we had...
by Trudy Irvine | Aug 5, 2020 | Nature
by Trudy Irvine, PaBIA’s Education Committee How many mergansers do you see in this photo? Three dozen or so? Mother mergansers have their work cut out for them- with the crisply colored green and white males departing shortly after breeding in the spring, the...
by Trudy Irvine | Aug 5, 2020 | Environment, Nature
by Trudy Irvine, PaBIA’s Education Committee This amazing photo above of a lynx (or bobcat?) was taken just west of Steamboat Channel last week. A family was out fishing just west of the narrows about 8 p.m. and noticed the cat 50 feet further to their west,...
