Hi All! NYC’s greenest restaurant, Habana Outpost, is hosting a “Winter Warm Up” talk and happy hour. Learn about Prospect Park and the Audubon Center while mixing with fun and friendly teachers. Oh yeah, and enjoy Habana Outpost’s delicious food, party atmosphere, and ecological model before it shuts on Oct 31! More info through this [...]
Archive for the ‘Lakes’ Category
Habana Happy Hour Tonight! Green Teachers, Green Grub!
Posted in Amphibians, Astronomy, Birds, Brooklyn, clouds, Edible Plants, Fall, Flowers, Fresh Water, Fungi, Gardens, Geology, Grasses, Insects, Invertebrates, Lakes, Mammals, Parks, Plants, Ponds, Recreation, Reptiles, Snakes, Streams, Trees, Vertebrates, volunteer, Water, tagged audubon center, Birds, children, education, environment, forests, habana outpost, meadow, nature calendar, nyc audubon, prospect park alliance, soil, teachers, urban ecology, Winter, winter warm up on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
WildWire: June 21-25
Posted in Astronomy, Atlantic Ocean, Birds, Bronx, Brooklyn, butterflies, Crustaceans, Estuary, Fish, Flowers, Fresh Water, Gardens, Geology, Grasses, Insects, Invertebrates, Lakes, Long Island Sound, Mammals, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Parks, Plants, Ponds, Queens, Recreation, Reptiles, Staten Island, Streams, Summer, Trees, volunteer, Water, wildwire, tagged audubon, bike new tork, biking, blue heron park, Bronx, bronx river alliance, Brooklyn, butterflies, canoe, canoeing, Central Park, clearwater festival, conservancy, Downtown Boathouse, east river, edible, erik baard, foraging, fort tryon, gowanus, hiking, hudson river, inwood, just foods, kayaking, lic, long island city, Manhattan, marine park, mike feller, nature calendar, naturecalendar, new york restoration, nyrp, orchard beach, peter tagatac, Prospect Park, Queens, queens botanical, recycle-a-bicycle, Rocking the Boat, salt marsh, sebago, socrates sculpture park, Staten Island, sustainable south bronx, topofthelawn, totten, urban park rangers, van cortlandt, walking, wave hill, wildflowers, wildman steve brill, wildwire on June 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Happy Solstice! Summer is here, and life is booming. Make sure you head down to Jamaica Bay to see cacti, horseshoe crabs, and diamondback terrapin turtles! Or get lost in a world of wildflowers and butterflies in Pelham Bay Park. As for the loveliness above…never again will you speak ill of Staten Island without feeling [...]
WildWire: June 13-June 18
Posted in Astronomy, Atlantic Ocean, Birds, Bronx, Brooklyn, butterflies, Crustaceans, Edible Plants, Estuary, Fish, Flowers, Fresh Water, Gardens, Geology, Grasses, Insects, Invertebrates, Lakes, Long Island Sound, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Parks, Plants, Ponds, Queens, Recreation, Spring, Staten Island, Streams, Summer, Trees, Uncategorized, Vertebrates, volunteer, Water, wildwire, tagged adventures nyc, amateur, Astronomy, audubon, backpacker magazine, battery park city, bike new york, Birds, blue heron, boathouse, bronx river, Brooklyn, butterfly, canoe, Central Park, conservancy, critical mass, department of parks and recreation, Downtown Boathouse, east river, erik baard, floyd bennet field, forest park, fort tryon, fort washington, gantry neighborhood parks, great kills, greenpoint, hudson river, inwood hill, inwood hill park, jane bailey, kayak, kayaking, kissena park, lic, mulberry, National Parks Service, nature calendar, nature center, Nature Network, naturecalendar, new york city, new york restoration project, nyrp, park, pelham bay, Prospect Park, river project, Rocking the Boat, salt marsh, sebago, time's up!, Trees, urban ecology, urban environment, urban park rangers, van cortlandt, volunteer, wagner park, wave hill, willowbrook on June 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
(Click to enlarge.) Oh, the burden of choice! With a hyper-fun suite of Adventures NYC events sponsored by Backpacker Magazine adding to our usually full menu of eco-recreation, you may find your head spinning a bit! As always, FREE is the rule and we have a mix of family-friendly events and adult [...]
WildWire: June 5-June 11
Posted in Amphibians, Atlantic Ocean, Birds, Bronx, Brooklyn, butterflies, Crustaceans, Edible Plants, Estuary, Fish, Flowers, Fresh Water, Gardens, Geology, Grasses, Insects, Invertebrates, Lakes, Long Island Sound, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Parks, Plants, Ponds, Queens, Recreation, Spring, Staten Island, Streams, Summer, Trees, Vertebrates, Water, wild eyed, tagged alley pond park, alliance, american museum of natural history, amnh, battery park city, biking, Birds, blooming, blue heron park, Bronx, bronx river, Brooklyn, canoe, canoeing, Central Park, Central Park Conservancy, department of parks and recreation, Downtown Boathouse, erik baard, Estuary, Flowers, forest park, free, gantry plaza state park, garden, greenbelt, hudson river, kayak, kayaking, lic community boathouse, long island city, magical garden, Manhattan, marine park, national trails day, nature calendar, naturecalendar, new jersey, new york, new york city, portside new york, Queens, queens west, red hook boaters, ring, riverdale park, riverside, Rocking the Boat, Staten Island, time's up!, tour de queens, trail conference, urban ecology, urban environment, urban park rangers, valentino park, van cortlandt park, volunteer, volunteering, wave hill, wildman steve brill on June 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What a weekend and week ahead New York City’s natural world and its stewards offers you! We have a barrel of FREE events, and a couple of cheap ones (as you know, paid events are the great exception on WildWire) that support green allies and cover basic costs. Highlights include the Tour [...]
Save the Mosquitoes!
Posted in Amphibians, Birds, Bronx, Brooklyn, Fish, Fresh Water, Gardens, Insects, Invertebrates, Lakes, Mammals, Manhattan, Parks, Plants, Ponds, Queens, Reptiles, Staten Island, Streams, Summer, Vertebrates, Water, wild eyed, tagged and Ross River fever, antigua sun, b1, Babylonian Talmud, bee watchers, bees, Birds, Bronx, DDT, dengue fever, dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane, elephantiasis, Emperor Titus, encephalitis, environmental protection agency, EPA, erik baard, joel kupferman, lobsters, malaria, mosquitoes, mosquitos, nature calendar, new york city, new york times, Paul Hermann Müller, pollinators, Queens, rachel carson, Rift Valley fever, silent spring, Staten Island, temple, urban ecology, urban environment, village voice, vitamin, west nile, yellow fever on May 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
by Erik Baard Last night I saw my first mosquito of the season, flying into my bedroom, hot on my carbon dioxide trail. I lost track of it, but minutes later I heard the soft buzz of menace in my ear. One must never underestimate the dangers of mosquitoes. Emperor Titus was driven made by [...]
WildWire: May 28-June 4
Posted in Amphibians, Astronomy, Atlantic Ocean, Birds, Bronx, Brooklyn, butterflies, Crustaceans, Edible Plants, Estuary, Fish, Flowers, Fresh Water, Fungi, Gardens, Geology, Grasses, Insects, Invertebrates, Lakes, Long Island Sound, Mammals, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Parks, Plants, Ponds, Queens, Recreation, Reptiles, Snakes, Spring, Staten Island, Streams, Summer, Trees, Uncategorized, Vertebrates, Water, tagged american museum of natural history, Astronomy, audubon, bicycling, biking, birding, Birds, blue heron park, bronx river, Brooklyn, butterflies, canoe, canoeing, Central Park, conference house, cuny, cycling, department of parks and recreation, Downtown Boathouse, east river, erik baard, Fish, fort tryon park, fresh kills, gardening, governors island, hayden planetarium, hiking, inwood hill park, kayaking, lic community boathouse, Long Island Sound, Manhattan, manhattanhenge, marine park, naturalist, nature center, neil degrasse tyson, new york city, orchard beach, paddling, Pelham Bay Park, Prospect Park, Queens, safewalk, salt marsh, seining, Staten Island, time's up!, urban ecology, urban environment, urban park rangers, van cortlandt park, walking, wildflowers on May 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Editor’s note: Please accept my apologies that some editing and link work must be redone due to a wifi interruption and WordPress/Word glitch. It will be done tonight, but for now you can see the events and most of the needed information. ALERT! Break out the “sacrificial” champagne. It’s time for Manhattanhenge! [...]
Ridgewood Reservoir Under Threat
Posted in Amphibians, Birds, butterflies, Edible Plants, Fish, Flowers, Fresh Water, Gardens, Geology, Insects, Invertebrates, Lakes, Mammals, Parks, Plants, Ponds, Queens, Recreation, Trees, Uncategorized, wild eyed, tagged anthony como, benzo(a)pyrene, betsy gotbaum, biking, Birds, charles ober, citybirder, cuny, cycling, department of environmental conservation, department of health and mental hygiene, department of parks and recreation, district 30, elizabeth crowley, erik baard, habitat, hiking, historic districts council, indigenous, junfeng zhang, natural resources defense council, nature calendar, new york city, new york environmental law project, nyc, nyc audubon, Plants, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, Queens, Recreation, ridgewood reservoir, rob jett, rowing, rutgers, special election, sports, steve nanz, terminal morain, tom ognibene, Trees, urban ecology, urban environment, william crain, xeriscaping, yellow warbler on May 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The graveyard’s a fine and verdant place, But none, I think, do there play ball or race. …with apologies to Andrew Marvell by Erik Baard City Council District 30 in western Queens boasts some of the widest swaths of green in New York City, but much of [...]
I’m a Black Crappie. C’mon, Stop Laughing!
Posted in Bronx, Brooklyn, Crustaceans, Fall, Fish, Fresh Water, Insects, Invertebrates, Lakes, Parks, Plants, Ponds, Queens, Recreation, Spring, Staten Island, Summer, Uncategorized, Vertebrates, Water, tagged black crappie, catch and release, Centrarchidae, clove lake, Crustaceans, department of environmental conservation, Fish, fishing, Insects, kissena, kissena lake, lake, nature calendar, new york city, new york state, northern pike, outdoor, outdoors, pond, Prospect Park, Recreation, silver lake, sunfishes, urban ecology, urban environemtn, van cortlandt park, walleye, wolfe's pond, zooplankton on May 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
by Erik Baard This unfortunately named cousin of more celebrated sunfishes might want you to know that its name is derived from “crapet,” a word in the Quebecois dialect of French referring to species of the family Centrarchidae. If I had my way, I’d just entirely rename the species as black scrappie, [...]
WildWire: May 22-May 28
Posted in Astronomy, Birds, Bronx, Brooklyn, Estuary, Fish, Flowers, Fresh Water, Gardens, Geology, Grasses, Lakes, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Parks, Plants, Ponds, Queens, Recreation, Spring, Staten Island, Streams, Summer, Trees, Vertebrates, Water, tagged 6b garden, Astronomy, audubon, bike month, bike new york, birding, Birds, Bronx, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Bird Club, canoeing, Central Park, community garden, compost, conference house, Downtown Boathouse, erik baard, fort totten, fresh kills, gardening, greenbelt, horseshoe crabs, hudson river, Jamaica Bay, kayaking, Manhattan, nature calendar, nature center, nature walk, new york city, new york tree trust, nyc audubon, nyc park rangers, paddling, park rangers, Parks, partnerships for parks, Pelham Bay Park, Prospect Park, Queens, Ramble, Recreation, sebago canoe club, sherman avenue, Staten Island, street tree, tour de brooklyn, transportation alternatives, Trees, trust for public land, urban ecology, urban environment, volunteerism, wildwire on May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wildwire-May22-28 As always we have a ton of FREE things to enjoy outdoors in New York City that put you in direct contact with nature. We hope you get out there, have fun, learn, and love your wild, wild city! THURSDAY, MAY 22 Horticulture, Brooklyn [...]
Where is NYC’s Morel Minority?
Posted in Bronx, Brooklyn, Edible Plants, Flowers, Fungi, Gardens, Geology, Lakes, Manhattan, Parks, Ponds, Queens, Recreation, Spring, Staten Island, Trees, Uncategorized, Water, tagged audubon society, bioblitz, bronx river alliance, edible, elm trees, foraging, gary lincoff, morel, morels, mushroom, new york city, Parks, wildman steve brill on May 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Editor’s note: Tomorrow I will be busy kayaking north from the LIC Community Boathouse to honor the Amazing Bronx River Flotilla and the great work of the Bronx River Alliance and then hopping around free arts and entertainment events in LIC after that, so Nature Calendar won’t have a Saturday post. So here’s a second Friday entry. I [...]
