Nature of Delaware Blog

“You can observe a lot by watching” – Yogi Berra This has been a cold and snowy start to 2022 that has kept most of us close to home. Apart from the sudden uptick in birds visiting your feeders, the winter can feel like downtime for any nature watcher. However, nature is still all around…

One cool autumn evening in mid-October, a small group of classmates from the Fall Advanced Naturalist Club, joined Ashland Nature Center’s Astronomer, Sheila Vincent, on Ashland’s Hawk Watch Hill, to view the night sky. Using the naked eye, binoculars, and Ashland’s own 4.5-inch Dobsonian reflector telescope, Sheila gave the group a guided tour of the…

If you see a tiny green hyperactive bird flitting around your yard at this time of year you are probably looking at a kinglet. There are two species of kinglet in North America, and both can be found throughout Delaware during the fall and winter. Their common name translates as ‘little king’ and derives from…

On a beautiful Saturday morning in September, a small group of classmates from the Fall Advanced Naturalist Club program joined Ashland Naturalist Joe Sebastiani for a class field trip to Flint Woods. Located in the piedmont region of Northern Delaware, Flint Woods is a 35-acre Delaware Nature Society (DelNature) property acquired through the generosity of…

Delaware Nature Society started the summer iNaturalist contest on June 1 to encourage folks to visit Ashland Nature Center and use the iNaturalist app or website to record their observations. These observations are automatically pulled into the Ashland Nature Center Biodiversity iNaturalist project, where we catalogue plants and animals that observers report. Congratulations to the…

“Delaware Nature Society’s mission is to connect people with the natural world to improve our environment through education, conservation, and advocacy.” We have been following this mission statement since our founding in 1964. Every year we connect over a thousand people with nature through our adult, family and youth programs, summer camps, ecotours, and social…