Nature of Delaware Blog

On January 13, 2021, Ian Stewart, Delaware Nature Society Ornithologist, and I found a small, deceased, Sorex genus shrew at the Flint Woods Preserve near Centreville, Delaware.  At first we thought it was a North American Least Shrew (Cryptotis parva). Upon further investigation, we realized that the tail looked too long for that species, and…

The Clean Water for Delaware Act passed unanimously out of the House Natural Resources Committee in January 2021, and now it is on to the next step.

Story and photos by Ed Crew, Delaware Master Naturalist Trainee Winter weather can easily discourage you from getting outside and exploring nature. The wind, snow and ice can make it quite uncomfortable and even unsafe to hike the trails that are your favorites during the other seasons. Winter outings also require some planning and watching…

Ian Stewart Bird watchers throughout Delaware have had their eyes fixed on their feeders this fall as we are in the midst of an ‘irruption year’. This is a year when many of the finches that normally spend the winter far to our north flood south in large numbers in search of food, presumably because…

Ian Stewart “You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing about the bird… So let’s look at the bird and see what it’s doing – that’s what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something…

‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe’ These are the opening lines to The Jabberwocky, a poem about a mythical dreadful beast that appears in Lewis Carroll’s 1871 book ‘Through the Looking Glass, and what Alice found there’. The poem contains many bizarre words invented by the author and…