Urban Wildlife Guide

After 15 years of writing this blog every week, I need to pause for maintenance. I will be migrating to a new platform and may be away for a...

  The golden northern bumble bee -- laboring. Have a great holiday! 

  Leaves have started to change and fall in my neighborhood.  Mushrooms are popping up overnight.  Some of them with faces.  Fowers are begi...

Almost all of the white egrets in marshes along the New Jersey shore are either snowy egrets or great egrets. The one above is a snowy. It h...

  An eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly on wild bergamot. Click to enlarge.                                         “The butterfly counts n...

  And this is a dog day cicada. It appeared on my porch this morning, right on schedule. I heard cicadas singing in the trees last night for...

  Just pictures of summer today. Here is an inviting path under blue sky with a fleet of clouds coming in. Click to enlarge.  A micro world ...