An archive of all of the Naturalist Blog articles written by the Baltimore Woods education team
Week of February 19, 2023 – February 25, 2023 by Anna Stunkel, Environmental Educator This past weekend, I visited the Morgan Road marshlands at Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge around sunset. As I watched flocks of Snow Geese, Trumpeter Swans, and ducks flying to their roosts on whooshing wings, the mild daytime temperatures began to drop. [...]
Week of February 12, 2023 – February 18, 2023 by Bridget Jones, Environmental Educator This past week, we had a spectacularly sunny day in between the clouds, snow, and rain. Temperatures warmed up enough to melt most of the snow and ice on the trails, providing a brief glimpse of spring in the middle of [...]
Week of February 5, 2023 – February 11, 2023 by Sunny Guyette, Environmental Educator The Baltimore Woods Nature in the City program visits every K-5 grade classroom in the Syracuse City School District three times a year for a one-hour hands-on/minds-on natural science lesson. The current lesson that we give to Kindergartners is “Animals in Motion”, where [...]
Week of January 29, 2023 – February 4, 2023 by Elizabeth Suzedell, Environmental Educator Winter can feel bleak. With frigid temperatures, everything covered in snow and ice, short days, lifeless plants, and an apparent lack of animal activity, I am longing for the summer, when everything is so vibrantly green and the sun is bright [...]
Week of January 22, 2023 – January 28, 2023 by Sunny Guyette, Environmental Educator The Harrison Trail is one of our newest additions (extending the Harrison Loop) and was one of the last trails that I had explored since starting at Baltimore Woods. Recently, I decided to take my first stroll along the whole Harrison [...]
Week of January 15, 2023 – January 21, 2023 by Bridget Jones, Environmental Educator Phillip’s Pond is a favorite summer spot for many campers, hikers, and visitors at Baltimore Woods. However, in the winter, the pond transforms into a new world with its own fascinating experiences to offer. On a cold day last week, I [...]
Week of January 8, 2023 – January 14, 2023 by Anna Stunkel, Environmental Educator As a new year begins, I enjoy pausing to reflect on special experiences in nature from the past year. One of these moments happened just as the year was ending, when my dad and I were birding in one of our [...]
Week of January 1, 2023 – January 7, 2023 by Elizabeth Suzedell, Environmental Educator As 2022 ends, I find myself reflecting on the past year at Baltimore Woods. I am especially thinking about all of the connections with nature that this preserve has provided us. Through the trails, the Interpretive Center, public programs, Summer Nature [...]
Week of December 25, 2022 – December 31, 2022 by Bridget Jones, Environmental Educator This holiday season, I’m looking forward to spending some time in an ecosystem very different from that of Central New York. I’ll be spending the holidays with my family on the coast of New Jersey, where I grew up. Although I [...]
Week of December 18, 2022 – December 24, 2022 by Sunny Guyette, Environmental Educator I used to dread winters, I really do not like being cold. But that apprehensiveness to accept winter changed when I had to go outside for two hours everyday for my Environmental Science class in High School. I realized that if [...]
