Urban Wildlife Guide

Sunday, March 8, 2026

Daylight Savings Time Has Begun

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Daylight Savings Time started last night while we slept. Our clocks spring forward by one hour, and sunset today in Philadelphia will be at ...
Sunday, March 1, 2026

It's Spring!

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  It's the first day of meteorological spring.  Here are some signs I've seen in the last week. Crocus!    And snowdrops or Candlema...
Sunday, February 22, 2026

Snow Geese in the Marsh

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  Between the melting of the last snow and the arrival of today's storm, there was time for one nice day of birdwatching at Edwin Forsyt...
Sunday, February 15, 2026

Winter Robins Holly Feast

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  Remember the flock of robins that was drinking melting snow water on my roof last week? They came back to eat holly berries. Click to enla...
Sunday, February 8, 2026

Winter Robins Get a Break

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  A flock of about 50 robins visited my place last week. Here are some of them, testifying that robins don't all fly away from our area ...
Sunday, February 1, 2026

Frost on the Windows

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" This week, the cold kept me inside long enough to notice and photograph frost on my windows. Behold!  John Greenleaf Whittier once as...
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Sunday, January 25, 2026

Winter Shore Trip

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  There was one day last week that was not too cold for an outing, so I headed toward the seashore. First stop was an animal refuge called P...
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Julie Feinstein
I am a Collection Manager at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. I live in Brooklyn. Most mornings I walk a few blocks to the subway station. I get off the train at 59th street in Manhattan and walk a mile along Central Park West through one of the most urban settings in the world. I see a nonhuman mammal or two, a few dozen birds, and a variety of intriguing insects every day; this blog is a collection of stories about them. UPDATE, JUNE 2018: I retired from the museum and moved away from New York City. I'm in a little town on the Delaware across from Philadelphia that is teeming with urban and suburban wildlife. Best of all, I'm close to the New Jersey Pine Barrens which is unique and lovely and full of future blogs.
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