An archive of all of the Naturalist Blog articles written by the Baltimore Woods education team
Week of June 29, 2025 – July 5, 2025 by Elizabeth Suzedell, Environmental Educator A heat wave last week brought both high temperatures and high humidity to Central New York, making it feel as muggy and oppressive as the tropics. This weather got me thinking a lot about how heat and humidity create different climates around [...]
Week of June 21, 2025 – June 28, 2025 by Katie McLaughlin, Environmental Educator It’s officially summer! I already have the start of a Teva tan and I am ready to head out on the waters up north. What do you do during the summer months to be active? Recently I was reading an article on [...]
Week of June 15, 2025 – June 21, 2025 by Anna Stunkel, Environmental Educator As a kid, one of my favorite spots in nature was a local frog pond on the nearby college campus. My parents would bring me there with a net and bucket, and I learned how to sneak up on frogs very carefully. [...]
Week of June 8, 2025 – June 14, 2025 by Kaylen Iorio, Environmental Educator June is such a special month for connecting with and exploring nature. Many wildflowers are still flashing their vibrant colors, green foliage is filling in the forest landscape, and animals are scurrying within understory plants. June brings warm weather, seemingly endless sunshine, [...]
Week of June 1, 2025 – June 7, 2025 by Elizabeth Suzedell, Environmental Educator With the warmer weather and light until 9pm, spring is a busy time of year. There’s end-of-year events at school, family gatherings and parties, and lots of spring cleaning to do. While we’re occupied by all of this, it feels like the [...]
Week of May 25, 2025 – May 31, 2025 by Katie McLaughlin, Environmental Educator It’s interesting how everything cycles in our lives, and how we can reflect on our past experiences when we take notice of them. Earlier this week I was at my high school for the spring music concert to wish my chorus director [...]
Week of May 18, 2025 – May 24, 2025 by Anna Stunkel, Environmental Educator If you wander outside on a mid-May day, what do you notice first in nature? For many of us, it might be birds! As I write this blog on the back deck of the Interpretive Center at Baltimore Woods, birds are singing [...]
Week of May 11, 2025 – May 17, 2025 by Kaylen Iorio, Environmental Educator In the heart of springtime we celebrate mothers in all capacities, from the family members we hold closely to the teachers, coaches, and camp counselors that help shape us in our early years. This time of year, mothers are beginning to raise [...]
Week of May 4, 2025 – May 10, 2025 by Elizabeth Suzedell, Environmental Educator After 26 weeks of counting the birds at our feeders, the Project Feederwatch season has come to an end. Every year, Baltimore Woods staff and volunteers record the birds that visit our feeders for this international citizen science project, which runs from November 1st [...]
Week of April 27, 2025 – May 3, 2025 by David DuBois, Director of Stewardship Have you ever noticed the bees that swarm in early spring along the Boundary Trail on the way to Phillips Pond? These stingless bees, which are harmless to hikers, love the bare soil in the trail to nest in while they [...]
