The Magic of Amphibians
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. I loved seeing the diversity of frogs in this pond. Some were enormous Bullfrogs, while [...]
June Activity
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, and lots to look for when outside. While hiking the trails at Baltimore Woods many [...]
Late Spring in the Meadow
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 landscape transforms from quiet and dull to lively and bright in the blink of an [...]
Cycles of Life
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 a great retirement. They performed a song titled Storm. If you haven’t heard it, the [...]
Connecting with Nature Through Birding
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 in every direction. A flurry of goldfinches is chattering out by the field on the [...]
Happy Mother’s Day
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 their young in the wild too! Birds are building nests and preparing for eggs to [...]
Project Feederwatch 2024-25 Wrap-up
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 to April 30th. Data from these feeder bird counts around the United States and Canada [...]
“Project GNBee” at Baltimore Woods
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 spend their day pollinating plants that bloom in mid-spring including spring wildflowers, wild cherries, and [...]
Spring Sunshine Among the Flowers
Week of April 20, 2025 – April 26, 2025 by Anna Stunkel, Environmental Educator After a long, cloudy winter with mostly overcast days, the sun is finally making an appearance. It feels rejuvenating to wake up to blue and cloudless skies with robins and chickadees singing. For those of us who spend time hibernating indoors over the winter, this sunshine is a welcome invitation to spend more time outside again. I [...]