Jan 4, 2024 | Announcements
Maryland’s skunk cabbage flowers pop out of the damp forest floor in winter, offering busy honey bees a little pollen snack to get them through cold early spring days. Bonnie Ott took this shot of the strange-looking blossoms that are one of the first spring...
Oct 2, 2023 | Announcements
This awkward bundle of feathers will soon grow into a majestic red-shouldered hawk. Kurt Schwarz photographed this puffy teenager on Sept. 19 near the stone wall that runs from Montjoy Barn down to the stream. He believes this hawk is the offspring of the mated pair...
Aug 10, 2023 | Announcements
Debbie Trail spotted this male meadowlark in full voice in one of our fields. Despite their name, meadowlarks are not larks. They’re in the blackbird family, and their whistling, flute-like songs float over our fields at twilight. Some male meadowlarks can sing...
Jan 13, 2023 | Announcements
The yellow-bellied sapsucker, which spends summers in Canada, visits Maryland in winter. Sapsuckers have been drilling telltale rows of holes in trees around Conservancy property. Bonnie Ott spotted a few of the robin-sized woodpeckers, which drink sugary sap from the...
