Urban Wildlife Guide

Sunday, January 11, 2026

January

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  This January already seems long to me. But it is pretty at times, like above on the Rancocas Creek in South Jersey. Seems a perfect time f...
Sunday, January 4, 2026

Creature of the Year Award

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  The competition was stiff for the 2025 Urban Wildlife Guide Creature of the Year Award. From a stellar group of contenders, the judges cho...
Sunday, December 28, 2025

Winter Bird

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  Dark-eyed juncos are visiting my seed feeders and poking around in the leaves seeking seeds -- their primary winter food. They are norther...
Sunday, December 21, 2025

Winter Solstice

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Today, on the last day of autumn, the sun set at 4:40:28 in Philadelphia. Tomorrow, it will set at 4:40:59. The days may grow colder as we h...
Sunday, December 14, 2025

Snow Day

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  It snowed all last night, and when the sun came up, the trees had been transformed.  Some of them looked like giant snowflakes.  Then the ...
Sunday, December 7, 2025

Farm Visit

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  I visited the Lots of Love Farm Animal Sanctuary in Williamstown, NJ, today, where I petted, photographed, and fed healthy snacks of seeds...
Sunday, November 30, 2025

The Last Day of November

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It's the last day of November. Another short cold day. It brings to my mind this poem November Night by Adelaide Crapsey. Click to enlar...
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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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