Nature Walk: The toothbrush caterpillars
The high number of caterpillars dead or dying this late summer (especially fall webworms) is almost certainly attributable to the...
Nature Walk: Coming to the dogs
A look at the flora and fauna that can thrive an ordinary Hudson Valley dog pen.
Nature Walk: Last of the leaves that won’t last
These trees keep their leaves the longest.
Nature Walk: Saugerties Lighthouse
Diane, Spider and Debbie Barbour at the trail’s archway. (photos by Anita Barbour) While my two sisters from Seattle were...
Nature walk: Lighthouse keeping
Diane, Spider and Debbie Barbour at the trail’s archway. (photo by Anita Barbour) While my two sisters from Seattle were...
Nature Walk: Home again, home again, jiggety jig
Skeletal remains of ninebark flower. (photos by Anita Barbour) For the last month and a half of my stay at...
Nature walk — Summer through a streamside window
Photos by Anita Barbour Last year a friend of ours replaced three old storm windows in our dining room...
Nature Walk: Writing the rails
Five young mallard ducks stayed together on shore and in the water. (photo by Anita Barbour) On a nature drive...
Nature Walk: Insect oracles
Clockwise from top: black-and-white fishfly (Nigronia serricornis); cabbage white butterfly (Pieris rapae); white-striped black moth (Trichodezia albovittata). (Illustrations by Anita...
Nature Walk/ Colors of change
European spindle bush fruit (photos by Anita Barbour) An autumn as drab as this one may be a dismal disappointment,...
Nature Walk: A reclining lifestyle
Halberd-leaved Tearthumb, White Bedstraw and Water Chickweed. (illustrations by Anita Barbour) About a month ago a friend inquired about the...
Nature Walk: Grass, rush, sedge
Greater straw sedge (Carex normalis) by Anita Barbour Grass is simple for most people. It’s what cows and horses eat....
Road-kill harvest
(Photo by Anita Barbour) After an afternoon picture-taking trip north of Saugerties near the Hudson River we drove homeward along...
Nature walk: Joe Pye’s butterfly bar
Monarch (Danaus plexippus) on Joe-Pye-weed. (photo by Anita Barbour) Our little front pond has finally, if only partially, filled with...
Of squirrels and crows
Just before winter our friend Vince replaced our decrepit dining room storm windows with a lovely bay window from another...
Nature Walk: The year without a winter
Lately I have taken to saying that we are living in a hoax. Conservatives rightly point out that climate change...
Nature Walk: Grasshoppers
Nature watchers often ask “What’s happened to such and such? I don’t see them anymore.” Usually the “such and such”...
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