J. Morton Galetto, CU Maurice River

Bayshore Painter

Glenn Rudderow painting East Point Lighthouse from a Delaware bayside vantage point. Photo: NJN, Reflections of a Bayshore Painter Recently, we lost an iconic painter...

A Morning in the ‘Hide’

The amount of orange on the eastern tailed-blue butterfly varies. Urine is likely to have attracted this crowd for its high concentration of salts...

Skipping Along

The Juvenal’s duskywings coloration is perfect for camouflage on sand andmudpuddles. Its spots look like grains of sand and the dark like the mud.Photo:...

Charcoal and Colliers

Colliers’ cabin. Photo: Rothrock, J.T. (1907). The Collier’s Cabin. In Report of the Pennsylvania Department of Forestry for the Years 1905 and 1906. Harrisburg,...

Romancing the Wren

Marsh wrens commonly return to the same breeding territories year after year, making an orb-shaped nest with a side entrance. The male may construct...

Red Maple Spring

Along Maurice River, the budding red maple trees contrast with the evergreen pines. This week I was reminded by the flowering of the red...