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Another great day with our Summer Steward Interns!

Another great day with our Summer Steward Interns! Today we installed close to 70’ of split rail fence at the Firefly Sanctuary, including a fancy new gate. The new fences will help to keep visitors on the land trust property, and delineate the boundaries of the much-loved preserve. By the end of the day, everyone was an expert at using the post hole digger!

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Have you seen the new upgrade at our Still Pond Pr

Have you seen the new upgrade at our Still Pond Preserve? Thanks to Troop 70's Max Schauer who, for his Eagle Scout project, built and installed new benches around the fire pit, creating new and improved seating at the campfire. You may not be thinking "campfire" right now, but it's a great spot to take in Still Pond!

We are so grateful for Max's hard work, and for all of the volunteers who helped him complete the project.

Want to learn more about what's going on at the Land Trust. Go to our website and sign-up for our monthly enewsletter. The new one is out today, and features Max!
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Like their walnut and oak cousins, hickories also

Like their walnut and oak cousins, hickories also produce a hard mast. These hickory nuts are an important food source for squirrels, turkey, deer, and other critters.

Did you know that squirrels will actually seek out hickory nuts over acorns? Hickory nuts have fewer tannins than acorns, and are therefore a bit tastier for the discerning squirrel palate.

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Meet our Session Two Interns! We are off to a grea

Meet our Session Two Interns! We are off to a great first week, completing various and versatile projects. Stay tuned!

Looking for a tranquil spot in the woods to take a

Looking for a tranquil spot in the woods to take advantage of this beautiful day? Perhaps you'll take a hike to the bench looking toward Still Pond in our Still Pond Preserve. You can enjoy both nature... and art. Joe Chirchirillo's Ring Tower as part of our #newcanaansculpturetrail adorns the pond.
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Did you know this is a Wood Duck nesting box? It

Did you know this is a Wood Duck nesting box? It was just put up last week on our GreenLink Trail between @newcanaannaturecenter and #irwinparknewcanaan.

Thanks to @susannbergen for the photo and the new blog about Wood Ducks.

A few things to know: Wood Duck homes in the wild are built by woodpeckers! Wood Ducks nest in natural tree cavities or holes excavated by woodpeckers. They don’t bring in nesting materials but rely on wood and debris found naturally in their chosen site. Because our bird boxes are man-made, we have added a thick layer of clean wood chips to encourage a mama duck to take up residence. Pretty cool!

There more to learn in Susan's blog -- Go to our website and click on blog on the navigation bar!
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Eastern Tiger Swallowtail... what a delight. Keep

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail... what a delight. Keep an eye out for these beautiful butterflies. These two were seen in the backyards of two of our Board Members, Tom Reynolds and Susan Bergen.

Want to know more about these butterflies? The first one is a female Eastern Tiger Swallow. The blue wash on the tail tells us it's a female. It is nectaring on Liatris, more commonly called Gay Feather. This is one of the wildflowers that we planted last year in the Silvermine-Fowler Meadow. So take a look there and see if you can find your own Eastern Tiger Swallow.

For the second Tiger Swallowtail, the tail isn’t visible in my photo so can’t tell the sex. It is on a Monarda, or Bee Balm. The red variety is also called Oswego Tea. Just like the Bradbury's Bee Balm that we planted at Silvermine-Fowler Meadow, this native plant is wonderful for pollinators. The Oswego Tea blooms about a month after the purple Bradbury's Bee Balm. In bloom now!

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Our beautiful new signs made by Sophia and our NCL

Our beautiful new signs made by Sophia and our NCLT interns! They are located at the Hicks Meadow, the Kelley Uplands Preserve, and the Silvermine-Fowler Preserve. Check them out if you haven’t already! 🌷🌱🍃

A Butterfly Weed that you might discover on a walk

A Butterfly Weed that you might discover on a walk through Hannan Field...worth a visit because you can see #newcanaansculpturetrail's Passages by @tsberntsen and enjoy an amazing series of sculpture and beautiful wildflowers.

Thanks to @elloyd12 for the photo!

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Want to take a walk on one of our less-visited pre

Want to take a walk on one of our less-visited preserves and catch a blooming meadow with lots of buzzing, beautiful summer activity? Then go to Livingston-Higley Preserve and you may catch some of the sights that our Board Member Susan Bergen saw this morning.

Check out these photos which capture: Grapevine Beetle on wild grapevine; Bumblebee in Wild Bergomot; Green Sweat Bee also in Wild Bergamot; and a Pearl Crescent Butterfly. Also seen were a few Monarchs, white cabbage butterflies, wrens catbirds, several kinds of dragonflies and many more bees.

So make your way to Apple Tree Lane to take in our remarkable natural world.
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A productive day with our summer interns! Calvin a

A productive day with our summer interns! Calvin and the two Peters split and stacked over a cord of firewood at the Still Pond preserve. We look forward to enjoying the fruits of their labor this fall for our annual campfire.

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Thanks to the supporters of our Virtual Sculpture

New additions to our Still Pond Preserve include t

New additions to our Still Pond Preserve include these signs created by our Summer Stewards on a rainy day last week. Aren't they beautiful?

Check out the latest blog on our website from Summer Program Coordinator Sophia Livecchi about all that the Stewarts contributed to caring for our properties!

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On our rainy last day of Session 1, our coordinato

On our rainy last day of Session 1, our coordinator Sophia and the interns decided to make these beautiful signs that are located at the Hicks Meadow and the Kelley Uplands Preserve. Session 2 will bring more handmade signs to the trust! Look out for them! 🌳🌱🍃🌿

A little rain didn't stop New Canaan’s newest bo

A little rain didn't stop New Canaan’s newest boy scout troop, Troop 45, from making a contribution to the Land Trust today. Five members of the troop along with Cubmaster Steve Prostor spent the morning collecting litter.. thank you! And they had a chance explore the trails at the Still Pond Preserve.
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Wonder why the native plants, brushes and trees th

Wonder why the native plants, brushes and trees that our volunteers planted last fall in our Still Pond Preserve are flourishing? Just like in our own gardens, it requires attention and watering.

Here you will see Summer Stewards Jake Harasiuk and Michelle LaBadie watering the newly planted dogwoods and redbuds planted at the entrance from Silvermine Avenue. Plus, the Stewards spent time last week removing invasive species -- a threat to these plants.

Thanks to our Summer Stewards. To read more about their ongoing work, read Coordinator Sophia Livecchi's blog on our website.
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Our Summer Stewards are hard at work, caring for o

Our Summer Stewards are hard at work, caring for our properties and improving the trails for your next visits. Summer program Coordinator Sophia Livecchi reports in her recent weekly blog about the work that this group of five high school stewards accomplished last week.

See here how they worked with our Executive Director, Aaron Lefland, to gather dead cedar trees (cut down by Aaron) for future Land Trust stewardship work. Besides being a beautiful rosy color inside, these trees are rot-resistant and serve as perfect materials for walkways, water bars and more on our preserves. Read about the full week of our program last week on Sophia's blog on our website.

Thanks to our Stewards for their contributions over the past four weeks. From left to right in the group photo: Will Sweet, Jake Harasiuk, Michelle Labodie, Ben Walter, Peter Vigano.
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Look closely here at this new bird box at the Silv

Look closely here at this new bird box at the Silvermine Fowler Wildflower Meadow: you will see a nesting house wren whose house this is. This one has caught a fat caterpillar to feed its young. (Note the caterpillar in the wren's mouth!)

This bird box and another one were put up last August by our Summer Stewards. Each box features a predator baffle at the entrance to keep raccoons and other critters from stealing the eggs.

This is another testament to how we can take care of our properties and the habitat, due to the support of donors and volunteers. The birdhouse provides the protected home for the house wren; the native meadow provides the food, i.e. the caterpillar. Thank you!
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Seems that not only humans are visiting #newcanaan

Seems that not only humans are visiting #newcanaansculpturetrail's Bloom near @newcanaannaturecenter on our GreenLink Trail, but so are deer. Thanks to our motion-activated camera, we caught the visit.

If you haven't seen this brilliant sculpture, come soon. Thanks to @elizabethknowles_art and #williamthielen for this remarkable work.
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A perfect day to water Fowler Meadow and plants at

A perfect day to water Fowler Meadow and plants at Still Pond Preserve🍃🌱🌿

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