Executive Director's Blog Archive
September 6, 2011
Pretty as a button
These button-willows (also called Buttonbush, Honey-bells) have a scientific name of Cephalanthus occidentalis. But my…
August 3, 2011
Smut
The Conservancy’s preserves have now been infested by smutgrass (Sporobolus indicus). This is going to…
July 28, 2011
Field trip
In cooperation with the Friends of the Swainson’s Hawk and Sacramento chapter of the Audubon…
June 14, 2011
Blue eggs but no ham
The blue eggs shown in the photo here are those of a white-faced ibis (Plegadis…
June 6, 2011
Budgie
Sometimes the strangest things happen on Conservancy preserves. Recently, I saw this brightly colored bird…
June 6, 2011
Looking for Hogwarts
In an abandoned barn on one of the Conservancy’s preserves, I am usually scared out…
May 1, 2011
Non-native predators
Pete Balfour of Ecorp tells me he has been studying Florida water snakes (a non-native…
April 21, 2011
You’re such a handsome man…
This photo (see adjacent) captures a pheasant on the Conservancy’s Silva tract preserve. The photo…
April 13, 2011
Bully of the Basin
I’ve noted on previous occasions that Great Horned Owls seem to like the Conservancy’s preserves….