Norcross Wildlife Foundation News

My Norcross co-blogger and I coach a Massachusetts Envirothon team – a statewide, hands-on, environmental “Olympics” challenge for high-school aged students.   One of the topics they must master is tree …

If you live in New England, you’ve seen them.  Stone walls, cellar holes, cairns, wells- many different structures made of stone.  Some may take them for granted and some others …

When I logged in on Saturday January 9th, I was greeted with a Google doodle of a Monarch Butterfly. This date marks the day the overwintering site of this regal …

Last Monday was the Sturbridge Christmas Bird Count (I’ll post those results soon).  In addition to counting the hundreds of ducks on Hamilton Reservoir (in my hometown of Holland), I …

When I started working here at Norcross, I would always giggle while in the greenhouse. Leslie, our botanist, had (and still has) a poster featuring an image of a white-tailed …

The colors and texture of tree bark are something people are very unaware of even though they see bark every day. On a drizzly, overcast day (like today) the color …

What do Sleepy Hollow and Tupper Hill have in common? Washington Irving wrote about an unfortunate Hessian soldier who was decapitated by an American cannonball at the end of October, …

Each autumn we offer motor tours of what we call the Core Sanctuary. This is an area that is just over 2,000 acres that lies outside of our 75 acre …

Along the trail here at Norcross there are a series of pools that fill with water seasonally, creating a temporary habitat for some of the more unique creatures that can …

How many crows does it take to be a murder? A murder is the collective catchall for a group of crows; but is it four? Six? Or is it the …