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 [...]
Archive for the ‘Summer’ Category
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 »
Oh, Tree of Heaven! Oh, Ghetto Palm!
Posted in Birds, Bronx, Brooklyn, Flowers, Manhattan, Parks, Plants, Queens, Recreation, Staten Island, Summer, Trees, Uncategorized, volunteer, tagged Ailanthus, ambonese, andrew blechman, conference house, edible, erik baard, folk medicine, forest, forestry, ghetoo palm, herbal, invasive, nature calendar, new york, new york city, pigeon, plant, poverty tree, Queens, species, Staten Island, sunnyside, tree of heaven, Trees, urban ecology, urban environment, volunteer, wildman steven brill on July 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
by Erik Baard As I walked past the Sunnyside Railyards yesterday I spotted a tree with a crown that each year is generously laden with green-gold pods. It’s rising up from beside the tracks, reaching eye level for strollers on the south side of the overpass. It occurred to me that while I’ve seen [...]
Trapped on Jelly World?
Posted in Atlantic Ocean, Bronx, Brooklyn, Crustaceans, Estuary, Fish, Invertebrates, Long Island Sound, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Queens, Recreation, Staten Island, Summer, Uncategorized, volunteer, tagged arthritis, carlos suarez, climate change, cnidaria, collagen, dianne saenz, east river, erik baard, florida state university, global warming, gotham strait, hsieh, jelly fish, jellyfish, mayor's volunteer center, nature calendar, naturecalendar, new york city, oceana, peggy, rheumatoid, stephen jay gould, urban ecology, urban environment, vegan, veganism, wren longno, zooplankton on June 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
by Erik Baard The Long Island City Community Boathouse hosted a “brunch paddle” from Anable Cove in Hunters Point down to “Dumbo Cove” in Brooklyn Bridge Park. On the way, one participant was surprised, and then reassuringly centered, by a simple encounter: “Nature sightings started before we even left off when Dan [...]
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 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 [...]
Clearwater Festival on Randalls Island?
Posted in Atlantic Ocean, Bronx, Estuary, Fish, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Parks, Queens, Recreation, Summer, Trees, Uncategorized, volunteer, Water, tagged 1972, clean water act, clearwater, community boathouse, council, croton point park, department of environmental conservation, erik baard, Estuary, festival, friends of brook park, hudson river, lic, natural resources defense, pcb, pete seeger, rachel carson, randalls island, silent spring, sloop, sustainable south bronx, urban ecology, urban environment, westchester on June 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
by Erik Baard I’m excitedly anticipating my chance to step sideways into a greener parallel culture this weekend with the Clearwater Festival, and I hope you can join in. I say “sideways” because while many green gatherings in NYC are slick and smart previews of possible sustainable futures, this “Great Hudson [...]
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 [...]
