Nature of Delaware Blog

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.

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…