After cancelling once because of the bitter cold, the LFWA stream team was out monitoring the Little Falls Branch last week, February 22. The weather cooperated - sunny and 41 degrees and the team was able to complete the task. They were excited to find a crane fly larva and a narrow winged damsel fly larva along with 6 other species despite the high salt levels seen this winter.
Watershed creeks are showing very high levels of chloride this month. After each winter storm, LFWA salt testing team has recorded chronic or acute levels of toxicity to aquatic life in four of our creeks.
We had a great turn out for our Sunday bird walk lead by local birder Pete Givan. Twenty-one species were spotted with a total of 102 individuals. “Not bad for a hot and muggy morning”.
While, I suspect, most of us were still sleeping, Pete Givan and Adele O’Dowd were out in Norwood Park leading a bird walk to do a New Year’s Day count and introducing participants to the trees in the Park.
The Hooded Warbler was seen for the first time in Green Acres in 2023! The spring migration count shared with us by John Boright and Mike Flibbert includes this yellow and black warbler.
One of the highlights of our October 30th Norwood Park Natural History Day was the morning bird walk lead by Pete Givan and Carolyn Peirce. Along with bird list, Pete has provided us with these beautiful pictures.
The Yellow Throated Warbler was among one of 65 species of birds spotted in the Green Acres neighborhood this spring. Thank you to birders John Boright and Mike Flibbert for sharing their list of birds spotted between April 1 to May 31, 2022.