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CREATING BIRD-FRIENDLY LANDSCAPES – -AND – - ANSWER TO WHERE AM I AT
Posted: April 17, 2013 6:54 am
Answer to the last blogs “Where am I at on Presque Isle” I WAS AT – – -The beginning of the Northeast end of Pine Tree Trail about 200 yards from the old Fog Station Foundation. This is a wonderful and easy trail to walk and explore. Right now the grass is just thinking… View ArticleBIRD WATCHING ON PRESQUE ISLE – - How to become a Birder in just a few easy steps – Part # 2
Posted: March 23, 2013 7:26 am
In the last blog I covered ten reasons you might like to become a bird watcher. With Presque Isle right here on our doorstep you have one of the country’s best areas to get a start. With this blog, I hope to suggest just a few steps that can get you started. I know… View ArticlePRESQUE ISLE WILDLIFE – - watching and watching out for the parks’s new babies
Posted: July 23, 2012 3:57 pm
Every day is a great day for photographing, sketching or just watching wildlife, whether it is on the park, in your own backyard, or a new place you might like to explore. This is especially true in June, July and August as this time of year when almost all the creatures of the… View ArticleWATCHING PRESQUE ISLE’S WILDLIFE – -Sometimes dreams can come true!
Posted: June 22, 2012 9:22 am
Because I am a habitual park visitor, fisherman, photographer and boater, I have been fortunate to be able to view its waters and wildlife from many vantage points most visitors never experience. Wild animals seem unafraid of a quiet fisherman intent only on getting his line wet in the water. It is something… View ArticleSEEING A FEW OF THE SECRETS OF PRESQUE ISLE
Posted: June 14, 2012 5:07 pm
It’s just a log floating quietly along the shoreline of the lagoon’s long pond, until four painted turtles climb aboard to sun themselves. As is their routine, they line up in a perfect row along one end of the log. Suddenly, the picture you have been chasing for three years is right there before you. … View ArticlePRESQUE ISLE’S UNIQUE SPRING GUESTS – - Really off course – Just passing through -I guess I’ll stay the summer.
Posted: May 7, 2012 11:11 am
Spring is the time of year when I wish I knew just a bit more about the birds that visit Presque Isle. You guessed it! I am not a certified birder. What is it they say? I know just enough to be dangerous. Every single year, I learn a bit more about the… View ArticleTHIS IS FOR THE BIRDS – - Bird Seed (Who eats what)
Posted: April 10, 2012 9:52 am
If you stop or walk near the Stull Center or maybe the Ranger Station on Presque Isle, you will see a number of bird feeders scattered around the area. The birds that do not migrate visit these feeders regularly. If you would show up in the Ware yard almost any time during the year, you… View ArticleSNOWBIRDS – - Migration almost complete
Posted: January 22, 2012 11:13 am
Thinking back to early October on Presque Isle when the foliage was brilliant and just beginning to drift to the floor of the woods and trails of the park, it is difficult to remember the exact day I first noticed that many of the leaves were encrusted with thin delicate ice crystals. Now, we all… View ArticleHORSESHOE POND – - A November Paradise
Posted: December 27, 2011 11:24 am
The morning today has dawned clear and cold with a sharp crispness in the air that more than hints at the end of autumn. I know autumn is coming to end in the way the cup in my hand no longer warms my fingers, and the strong black coffee cools faster than I… View ArticleBirds of Presque Isle – - Northern Cardinal
Posted: November 19, 2011 3:29 pm
The male Northern Cardinal has perhaps been responsible for getting more people to open a field guide than any other bird that I know. The Northern Cardinal is a year-round inhabitant of PRESQUE ISLE. They prefer to live in the tangled shrubby growth, dense thickets, hedges, woodland borders or bushy areas of the park. This… View Article1 2 3 Next »