Tag: Riveredge Nature Center

  • Christmas Bird Count 2023

    Christmas Bird Count 2023

    Christmas Bird Count (CBC) is one of the longest running citizen science efforts in the United States. It began as a replacement for Christmas bird hunt competitions. Instead of bagging birds, birders tally everything seen and heard within an assigned area. The over one hundred years of December data has been used to study bird…

  • Blue Heron/Riveredge Report from May 8

    Beautiful, sunny, light cooling breeze, warblers, flycatchers, blooming plants – we thoroughly enjoyed a day of spring birding! Blue Heron is a private, nature center with boardwalks, trails, river frontage and an upland wooded area. Eight of us were there at 7am and treated to a phoebe pair in the parking lot. Soon after we…