Projects
Wood Frogs Celebrate Spring 2021
Wood Frogs return to the Vernal Pool at High Point Preserve What brings the feeling that Spring has finally arrived? Geese formations flying North? Robins on the lawn? Wondering if you will consider the Wood Frog? For an amphibian that freezes over the winter, the Wood Frog is usually among the first amphibians to find…
Read MoreGreat Horned Owls Nesting – Week 5 – March 2021
Week 5 of the Owl nesting; The Great Horned Owls, Luna and Silver, continue to be doing well at the nest. (There was recently a community activity to suggest and vote on names for the adult owls). The milder temperatures and melting snow have resulted in an uptick in the success of Silver finding a…
Read MoreGreat Horned Owl Nest – Week 3 Update 2021
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHKXsKX0WJE[/embedyt]Raptor Habitat Project Update – Great Horned Owls Nesting with Two Eggs Highlights from week 3 of the Great Horned Owls’ nesting in Brackney, PA. The mother owl is doing all the incubating. She stretches and leaves the nest for short periods before dawn and after dusk. The male owl is bringing food the…
Read MoreRaptor Report – Nesting Project Update
Great Horned Owls Nesting News The great horned owl (Bubu virginiarus) is a native nocturnal predator that lives in the HighPoint Preserve, in NE Pennsylvania. We have seen Great Horned Owls taking prey of various rodents and even a Mallard Duck. The owl has powerful, taloned feet and large, yellow eyes. The female owl…
Read MoreFall 2020 Wildlife – Raptors and Rodents
This video is a salute to the Fall of 2020 and some the special wildlife living in and around Silver Lake and the High Point Preserve. The raptors and rodents are part of the dance of living threads in the tapestry of the environment, of which we are all a part. There has been an…
Read MoreHigh Point Preserve Lake Shore Wildlife
The Spring is a busy season for wildlife around Silver Lake. This video contains clips of a variety of wildlife around the lake shore and on floating platforms. Among the wildlife are frequent visitors including Mallard Ducks and a Beaver. The floating platforms and the motion activated trail cameras are part of the long-term monitoring…
Read MoreWood Duck Nesting Box Project – new video
Nesting Boxes Success Some Conservation projects see an immediate benefit. Many other projects require patience and produce results in the long term. In 2015 we built and deployed more than 30 nesting boxes for raptors and wood ducks. The Wood Ducks have been using the nesting boxes successfully but they are very elusive. This week…
Read MoreRaptor Nest Platform Update March 25, 2020
Thought a bit of good news might help to start our day. This morning there was some activity on the nesting platform that we erected in 2019 at Silver Lake under a Green Communities grant for Edward L Rose Conservancy. The nest is intended to enhance the chance of successful breeding of raptors, including…
Read MoreRaptor Nest Platform Project Underway
With a Green Communities grant from the Rockwell Collins Corporation, the Edward L Rose Conservancy and volunteers from Rockwell Collins started a project to encourage raptor nesting in Susquehanna County, PA. A survey of possible nesting trees was done and, with the tree recommendation from Craig Koppie, Regional Eagle Coordinator, Northeast Region, US Fish and…
Read MoreSave the Hemlocks
Project to Save the Hemlock Trees Our Cornell partners found hemlock woolly adelgid growing on hemlock trees in High Point Preserve several years ago. The adelgid is a destructive, non-native insect pest which presents a serious danger to the hemlock trees along the lake shore and in the High Point Preserve, and could pose a threat…
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