ITHACA, N.Y. — Share in the joy of birds during the annual Great Backyard Bird Count and help make your community stronger for you and the birds. Bird and nature lovers everywhere unite in the effort to tally as many of the world’s bird species as possible over these four days. Combined ...
An Environmental Education Expo is scheduled at the Montour Preserve in Danville this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. It’s the second annual expo and is through the Vernal School Environmental Education Partnership with the Middle Susquehanna Riverkeeper Association and Montour Area Recreation Commission. Last year, the event drew more than 1,000 people and packed the education center with individuals from all over the Commonwealth. This year, the expo will have 28 different hands-on interactive booths in the works in coordination with local universities, non-profits, state agencies ...
With the bitter cold weather we experienced in January, the popular toboggan slide at Eagles Mere has again been built. Our frigid temperatures during the month of January allowed the ice on the lake to be frozen enough for the toboggan slide. This is the first time in 11 years. The ...
During the Tuesday, Jan. 7 public meeting with the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission on Tuesday, Jan. 7, the prevalence of blotchy bass syndrome within smallmouth bass in the Susquehanna and Juniata rivers was brought up. Blotchy bass syndrome is hyper-pigmented melanistic skin lesions, which was first documented in the 1980s in the Hudson River in New York, and was first seen in Pennsylvania in 1986. While it has been observed since 1986 in the Commonwealth, committee member Geoff Smith who gave the presentation regarding the syndrome noted that it was not something that came up ...
It was cold and the wind was blowing hard, but there I was with two friends scanning the whitecaps of Rose Valley Lake, hoping for a fallout of waterfowl and vagrant species. Winter birding in these kinds of conditions can be challenging, but also rewarding. We didn’t find many birds on ...
Through the years, I have often been asked what is your favorite season to be in the woods? I always respond the fall when I watch the leaves changing colors and also hear the occasional flushing of a grouse from a stand of aspen trees. Later I question my answer when I think of spring, with ...
