by NCLT Admin | Jul 28, 2020 | Nature Feature, Uncategorized
This wood duck nesting box was put up last week at the Hupper Preserve pond on the GreenLink Trail between Irwin Park and the New Canaan Nature Center. A second wood duck box was installed at the Smith Preserve overlooking Jelliff Mill Pond. Both were donated by Jim...
by New Canaan Land Trust Team | Jun 26, 2020 | Nature Feature
Written and photographed by Susan Bergen, NCLT Board Member This is National Pollinator Week, and a good time to reflect on why pollinators are important. How we can make our own yards and public spaces more pollinator friendly? NCLT’s wildflower meadow at Still Pond...
by New Canaan Land Trust Team | May 28, 2020 | Nature Feature
Written and photographed by Susan Bergen, NCLT Board Member There is an idiomatic expression that describes an extremely shy woman as a ‘shrinking violet.’ While violets may be miniscule and often passed over for more showy flowers, there is nothing shrinking about...
by Aaron Lefland | May 7, 2020 | Nature Feature, Stewardship
Designed to blend in with their surroundings, you’ve probably never noticed the trail cameras that NCLT uses across our preserves. Yet these cameras are a critical tool in land management, and one that we’ve been using for years. NCLT maintains a small...
by Aaron Lefland | Apr 29, 2020 | Nature Feature, Uncategorized
Our first wildflowers, Golden Alexanders (Zizia aurea) are blooming now at the Fowler meadow. These bright yellow flowers offer pollen and nectar to early season pollinators such as azure butterflies, mining and other short-tongued bees, flower flies and soldier...
by NCLT Admin | Apr 23, 2020 | Nature Feature
Written and photographed by Susan Bergen, NCLT Board Member Did you know that the pregnant queen is the only member of a bumble bee hive to survive the winter? All the other workers and drones die at the end of the season. The queen goes into hibernation, spending...
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