Nature of Delaware Blog

Ian Stewart The wonder of the world, the beauty and the power, the shapes of things, their colours, lights and shades — these I saw. Look ye also while life lasts. The author of these poignant words is uncertain although they appear in the frontispiece of my favorite childhood book, Brendon Chase (1944) by ‘BB’…

By Jim White, Delaware Nature Society Senior Fellow for Land and Biodiversity Everyone has their own personal harbinger of spring. To some it is the first Hepatica bloom in a still-leafless woods; to others, the northward migration of the Canada Goose, or the Bluebird’s beautiful song on a clear day. But to some of us…

Article and Photos by Ed Crew – Delaware Master Naturalist Intern Certain pieces of music can evoke deep emotional responses and can even be an “experience” for the listener. Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons is an example of that as the pieces of the composition flow one into the next. You can imagine the transition of…

Can you name a Black environmentalist? A Black environmental trailblazer? A Black naturalist? I ask these questions because if I were put on the spot, I wouldn’t be able to do it. One obvious reason was that it just was not taught when I was in grade school, but also because when we did learn…

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.