Archive for the ‘Spring’ Category
Bloomberg Bitten by Groundhog…and His Shadow
Posted in Mammals, Spring, Staten Island, Vertebrates, Winter, tagged bitten, bloomberg, environment, erik baard, groundhog, nature calendar, naturecalendar, new york city, urban ecology on February 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Dec. 13: Newtown Pippin Apple and Beach Plum Outing!
Posted in Atlantic Ocean, Birds, Bronx, Brooklyn, butterflies, Edible Plants, Estuary, Flowers, Gardens, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Parks, Plants, Queens, Recreation, Spring, Staten Island, Summer, Trees, Uncategorized, volunteer, wild eyed, tagged apple, beach plum, big apple, briermere farm, Bronx, Brooklyn, dumbo, edible, erik baard, fruit, hunters point, indigenous, long island city, Manhattan, native, nature calendar, naturecalendar, new york city, newtown creek, newtown pippin, nyc, Parks, pelham bay, plum, Queens, riverhead, staten, stuyvesant cove, urban ecology, urban environment on December 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Imagine the sandy shores of Dumbo, Stuyvesant Cove, Hunters Point, South Beach, and Pelham Bay resplendent with bushes full of white blossoms that grow into delicious fruits akin to fat cherries as summer passes. Or seeing trees at City Hall, or in a school playground just inland from the Newtown Creek, heavy with sublimely sweet [...]
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 [...]
Light, then Heat.
Posted in Astronomy, Atlantic Ocean, Bronx, Brooklyn, clouds, Estuary, Fall, Geology, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Queens, Spring, Staten Island, Summer, Uncategorized, Water, Weather, Winter, tagged Astronomy, atmosphere, chaos theory, complexity theory, david grinspoon, denver museum, dog days, erik baard, funky science, heat, heat wave, isothermic, Joe Rao, nature, nature calendar, naturecalendar, new york city, new york times, science, solstice, Summer, sunlight, urban ecology, urban environment, urban heat, USA Today, venus on June 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
by Erik Baard A kid waiting to kayak at the Clearwater Festival last Solstice weekend asked me, “If this is the longest day of the year, then why isn’t it the hottest?” It’s a logical question, and I guess a common one. The incomparable Joe Rao addressed it in his New York [...]
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 [...]
Shoulder-to-Shoulder With Lightning
Posted in Manhattan, Spring, Summer, Weather, tagged american museum of natural history, Center for Environmental Research and Conservation, cerc, Columbia University, empire state building, lightning, Manhattan, nature calendar, new york botanical garden, new york city, sara scovronick, urban ecology, urban environment, Weather, wildlife conservation society, Wildlife Trust on June 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
By Sara Scovronick I live I high up in an apartment on 8th Avenue in Chelsea with a balcony that faces east over the city; perfect for watching thunderstorms. The thunderstorm that has brought a bit of relief from the recent heat, came in strong and moved out fast last night, with the [...]
Tour de (Heat Island) Queens
Posted in Birds, Estuary, Geology, Mammals, New York Harbor, Parks, Plants, Queens, Recreation, Spring, Summer, Trees, Uncategorized, Vertebrates, Weather, tagged administration, aeronautics, biking, Birds, chad seewagen, combine sewer, coratid rete, david berreby, geological survey, grass, hardscape, heat island, helen ho, livescience, maspeth, migratory, NASA, new yorker, newtown creek, oil, overflow, panorama, panting, Plants, Queens, queens museum, robin lloyd, space, street films, Summer, sweat, terminal moraine, tour de queens, transportation alternatives, Trees, U.S., urban, urban ecology, urban environment, USGS, village voice on June 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
When Transportation Alternative’s absolutely wonderful Tour de Queens (enjoy the Street Films video above) rolled into Maspeth on Sunday under the blaze of a record-setting June heat wave, we were subjected to a brutal lesson in urban planning and natural history. The Newtown Creek is infamous for being home to the largest oil [...]
June 14 “Mulberry Coast” Kayak Trip!
Posted in Birds, Bronx, Brooklyn, Edible Plants, Gardens, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Parks, Plants, Queens, Spring, Staten Island, Summer, Trees, wild eyed, tagged anti-oxidents, boathouse, boston, Bronx, brook park, canoe, Central Park, club, east river, edible, erik baard, foraging, friends of brook park, kayaking, lic, lic community boathouse, long island city, Manhattan, mulberries, mulberry, mulberry coast, mulberry night, nature calendar, naturecalendar, Queens, randalls island, reservoir, sebago, socrates sculpture park, Staten Island, steve brill, Trees, urban ecology, urban environment, urban orchards, wildman on June 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
by Erik Baard In New York City, messy sidewalks are usually cause for pinching one’s nose. But over the past few days I’ve been overjoyed to see purple splotches all over the place, from the sidewalks to fingertips. It’s mulberry season! Our native red mulberry trees (the fruits of this and [...]
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 [...]
