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 ‘Ponds’ 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 »
Homosexual Garter Snakes: So Not “Gay”
Posted in Bronx, Brooklyn, Fresh Water, Manhattan, Parks, Ponds, Queens, Reptiles, Snakes, Spring, Staten Island, tagged against nature, animals, erik baard, garter, gay, gay pride, homosexual, homosexuality, last chance pond, mating, naturecalendar, new york city, pheromones, Snakes, species, university of oregon, university of oslo, urban ecology, urban environment on June 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
by Erik Baard Cross-dressers are more often straight than gay, but there’s something irresistibly amusing about the fact that our language paired the words “garter” and “snake” for a species later discovered to be promiscuously homosexual in drag. Well, at least chemically in drag. Male garter snakes (which live [...]
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 [...]
WildEyed: Manhattan’s Mysterious Black Skimmer
Posted in Atlantic Ocean, Birds, Brooklyn, Crustaceans, Estuary, Fish, Fresh Water, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Parks, Ponds, Queens, Recreation, Summer, Uncategorized, Vertebrates, wild eyed, tagged amateur astronomers association, american museum of natural history, amnh, Birds, black, black skimmer, brad klein, bradley, cal vornberger, Central Park, central park in the dark, conservatory water, cornell, erik baard, gull, Manhattan, marie winn, nature calendar, naturecalendar, new york bat group, rockaways, skimmers, tern, tom mcintyre, turtle pond, urban ecology, urban environment on June 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Editor’s note: Sorry for neglecting Nature Calendar a bit this week. My grandmother died on Saturday so I was shuttling back and forth for the wake and funeral, while also trying to find ways to financially support myself. And now back to what’s up in our urban wilderness community! by Erik Baard [...]
Mark Kurlansky on “The Big Oyster”
Posted in Atlantic Ocean, Estuary, Fish, Geology, Invertebrates, Long Island Sound, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Parks, Ponds, Queens, Recreation, Staten Island, tagged african american, american indian, baykeeper, book, canal street, colonial, dutch, Estuary, history, interview, mark kurlansky, middens, native american, new york city, New York Harbor, nick schultz, oysters, pearl street, rockaways, Staten Island, TCS daily, the river project, urban ecology, urban environment on June 13, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Forgive us if we go a little oyster crazy ahead of the Tuesday, June 17 event at Pier 40 to celebrate this species with The River Project and NY-NJ Baykeeper. Below is a fun and informative interview with acclaimed author Mark Kurlansky about his New York Harbor-centered book, The Big Oyster: History on the [...]
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 [...]
Movin’ On Up, and That’s Very Bad
Posted in Amphibians, Atlantic Ocean, Bronx, Brooklyn, Estuary, Fresh Water, Long Island Sound, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Parks, Ponds, Queens, Reptiles, Snakes, Staten Island, Streams, Summer, Uncategorized, Vertebrates, Water, Weather, wild eyed, tagged american museum of natural history, amnh, Amphibians, climate change, conservancy, ellen pehek, erik baard, Estuary, extinction, frogs, global change biology, global warming, grass, habitat, herpetology, marsh, marshgrass, natural resources group, new york city, parks and recreation, red back, Reptiles, salamanders, Sarah Goodyear, urban ecology, urban environment, wetlands, wildmetro on June 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
by Erik Baard Global warming is forcing the upward migration of reptiles and amphibians to cooler altitudes, according to an American Museum of Natural History researcher. While much has rightfully been made of the world’s visibly melting alpine glaciers, a desperate and quiet migration has been occurring, with creatures scaling slopes to escape [...]
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! [...]
