by Erik Baard He walked up from below the high water mark beside the old seaplane ramp at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn and called out, “That’s it! New York City is done!” Not comforting words from a man who measures time in mass extinctions. Paleontologist Carl Mehling is one [...]
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Out With the Old: NYC Fossils!
Posted in Atlantic Ocean, Bronx, Brooklyn, Crustaceans, Estuary, Fish, fossils, Invertebrates, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Parks, Plants, Queens, Recreation, Staten Island, Streams, Uncategorized, wild eyed on December 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Heal the Seals! Turtles Too! (Riverhead Foundation Visit)
Posted in Atlantic Ocean, Brooklyn, Estuary, Long Island Sound, Mammals, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Parks, Queens, Staten Island, Uncategorized, Vertebrates, volunteer, Water, Weather, wild eyed, Winter, tagged Atlantic Ocean, cold stun, dolphins, ecology, environment, erik baard, Estuary, gowanus canal, injury, Julika Wocial, long island, marine mammal, nature calendar, nature community, naturecalendar, naturecommunity, neena dhamoon, new york, new york city, rehabilitation, rescue, riverhead foundation, Robert DiGiovanni, seal pox, seals, Sofia Theologitis, turtle, urban, volunteer on December 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
by Erik Baard If a seal falls ill in the Gowanus Canal, a turtle catches an autumnal chill in Montauk, and a dolphin gets marsh bound in the Great South Bay, there’s a good chance they’ll end up as roommates at the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation. As New York State’s only authorized [...]
Dec. 13: Sealing the Deal. Who Could Resist?
Posted in Amphibians, Estuary, Long Island Sound, Mammals, New York Harbor, Parks, Recreation, Reptiles, volunteer, wild eyed, Winter, tagged beach plums, erik baard, long island, Long Island Sound, Mammals, marine, nature calendar, naturecalendar, newtown pippins, ocean, otters, riverhead foundation, seals, turtles on December 9, 2008 |
To all those sitting on the fence about heading out to Riverhead, Long Island on a Newtown Pippin and beach plum quest (see below), Nature Calendar throws down a challenge: Can you resist this? Our trip will now include a behind-the-scenes tour of the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation. You’ll learn about their [...]
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 [...]
Nov. 9: Fossil Brooklyn Day! (Living and Dead)
Posted in Atlantic Ocean, Brooklyn, Edible Plants, Estuary, Fall, Geology, Parks, Plants, Trees, wild eyed, tagged Asian, autumn, Brooklyn, carl mehling, edible, erik baard, Fall, foraging, fossils, gingko, Ginkgo, herbal medicine, locavore, nature calendar, naturecalendar, new york city, paleontology, Prospect Park, recipes, steve brill, Trees, wildman on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On November 9 we will have our first social outings as a Nature Calendar community. In the morning we will hunt for fossils with paleontologist Carl Mehling as he concludes his private quest to find fossils (native or transported by glaciers) in all five boroughs. He’s scored fossils in the four other boroughs from periods [...]
Pigeon Netter Netted!
Posted in Birds, Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Parks, Queens, Recreation, Staten Island, Uncategorized, Vertebrates, volunteer, wild eyed, tagged andrew blechman, department of environmental conservation, doe fund, erik baard, extinction, in defense of animals, martha, nature calendar, new york, new york bird club, new york city, new york city pigeon rescue central, passenger, pigeon, pigeon day, rock dove, shooting, tony avella, uft, united federation of teachers, urban ecology, urban environment on July 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
by Erik Baard One of the stupider “sports” people have come up with is pigeon shooting, where the birds are released from boxes into the line of yahoos’ ready fire. In a 1902 debate over a bill banning the sport from New York, a state senator compared that lack of humanity and sportsman-like [...]
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 [...]
WildEyed: The Pant of the “Global Hawk”
Posted in Birds, Parks, Queens, Recreation, Summer, Vertebrates, Weather, wild eyed, tagged cornell, corona, emmanuel fuentabella, erik baard, Ferruginous hawk, flushing, hawk, heat, laguardia community college, nature calendar, naturecalendar, new york city, park, Queens, queens museum, red-tailed hawk, richard furlong, tour de queens, unisphere, urban ecology, urban environment, wildeyed on June 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A glance at this red-tailed hawk brings to mind its famed cry, which Cornell University notes is dubbed into the beaks of hawks and eagles in movies and television shows ad infinitum. In reality you’re seeing a hawk pant. The iconic Unisphere in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park is home to a pair of hawks [...]
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 [...]
