by Three Rivers Land Trust | Dec 10, 2015 | Articles
By Ruth Ann Grissom December 10 2015 From mid-December through early-January, tens of thousands of citizen scientists across the Americas will participate in an Audubon Christmas Bird Count. This wildlife census effort began in 1900 as an alternative to the...
by Three Rivers Land Trust | Dec 4, 2015 | Articles
by Crystal Cockman December 4, 2015 While out doing some bird banding, a common bird we caught in our mist-nets was the swamp sparrow (Melospiza georgiana). This bird breeds in eastern North America and Canada, and migrates to the southeastern United States. Their...
by Three Rivers Land Trust | Nov 11, 2015 | Articles
By Ruth Ann Grissom November 11, 2015 The song sparrow was tangled in a mist net stretched between a stand of big bluestem and a blackberry thicket. It flapped and flailed, but settled a bit as Alicia’s nimble fingers worked to extract it – first the tiny claws and...
by Three Rivers Land Trust | Oct 28, 2015 | Articles
by Crystal Cockman October 28, 2015 While out doing some road cruising for snakes with a biologist friend the other week, we stopped for a while to stretch our legs and radiotrack a few snakes. Two of these were coachwhips, a type of snake that is native to the...
by Three Rivers Land Trust | Oct 26, 2015 | Articles
by Crystal Cockman October 21, 2015 With the arrival of fall, one of the most abundant wildflowers around is the beautiful yellow goldenrod. They are also one of the favorite hunting grounds of the unique crab spider (Misumena vatia), which are even sometimes called...
by Three Rivers Land Trust | Oct 20, 2015 | Articles
by Ruth Ann Grissom October 14, 2015 As the Chicago Cubs began their historic run in the major league baseball playoffs, I realized I had built my own field of dreams this season – a backyard pollinator garden at my house in Charlotte – and the butterflies, bees and...
