Walk across the Wissahickon
A young man crosses Wisshickon Creek by foot at Valley Green, not knowing how deep the water is or rocky the bottom.
Category: NATURE
Making time lapse video of Cape May sunrise
Vacationing friends go out on beach jetty to take timelapse movie of Cape May sunrise the first morning of spring.
Sculptor carves massive sunflowers into tree trunk
Twelve foot high remaining trunk of beloved sugar maple is carved into sunflower art.
Maintaining bird boxes in Wissahickon meadows
A volunteer crew cleans out and tightens screws on the bird boxes for bluebirds, swallows, wrens and sparrows in the meadows of the Wissahickon section of Fairmount Park in Philadelphia.
Electrofishing the Wissahickon
In a short time, aquatic biologists from the Susquehanna River Basin Commission netted hundreds of fish from the Wissahickon Creek just above the covered bridge [Read More…]
Horse riding falconer hunts ducks and rabbits
On his 467 acre eastern shore of Maryland farm, Jonathan Shaw rides his Pasofino horse with a gyrfalcon on his wrist. He hunts ducks and pigeons with the falcon and, with his Harris hawk, will hunt rabbits.
City workers grind down tree stump
City crew grinds down remaining stump of large maple tree that storm had thrown upon houses.
Ceramicist makes lovely leaf trays
Janell Petzko of Shady Hill Clayworks in Media, Pa makes lovely leaf-shaped ceramic plates by rolling plant leaves directly into clay. She cuts out [Read More…]
First Christmas Trees 🎄 🎄 🎄 of season arrive!
Charlie Gangloff of Top of the Hill market and a helper hoist the first Christmas tree of the season onto an upright the Monday before [Read More…]
Naturalists raise, launch Monarch butterflies
Wissahickon naturalists harvest monarch butterfly eggs from milkweed leaves, feed the caterpillars until they pupate, then release the butterflies for their two thousand mile journey to Mexico forest.