Red-Shouldered Hawk: Stately Raptor is Year-round Resident

Our spring newsmagazine featured Cliff’s top ten hidden gems of birding. Here is the fifth of a blog series on these birds, by guest blogger Ed Pope. The red-shouldered hawk can be found year-round in Indiana. It is one of nine hawk species that inhabit our state. Its breeding territory [...]

By |2025-02-14T00:18:24+00:00June 30, 2021|Fred & Dorothy Meyer Nature Preserve, Newsroom, Properties|Comments Off on Red-Shouldered Hawk: Stately Raptor is Year-round Resident

Fact and Fiction: An Entomologist Talks Brood X

The arrival of Brood X periodical cicadas—while patchy in Central Indiana—has given us all something to talk about. Love them or leave them, hate them or taste them, their 17-year emergence is a memorable one. […]

By |2025-02-14T00:21:07+00:00June 25, 2021|Blossom Hollow, Newsroom, Olivers Woods, Properties|Comments Off on Fact and Fiction: An Entomologist Talks Brood X

“Knocking” Bird: Yellow-Billed Cuckoo

Our spring newsmagazine featured Cliff’s top ten hidden gems of birding. Here is the fourth of a blog series on these birds, by guest blogger Ed Pope. This bird is slightly larger than a cardinal. Its long tail is brown on top, while the underside is black and white. The [...]

By |2025-02-14T00:18:24+00:00June 16, 2021|Blossom Hollow, Burnett Woods, Newsroom, Properties|Comments Off on “Knocking” Bird: Yellow-Billed Cuckoo

Hooded Merganser: Eye-catching Diver

Our spring newsmagazine featured Cliff’s top ten hidden gems of birding. Here is the third of a blog series on these birds, by guest blogger Ed Pope. If you are wondering what a merganser is, it is a fish-eating, diving duck. The hooded part of its name comes from a [...]

By |2025-02-14T00:18:32+00:00May 26, 2021|Browning Marsh, Newsroom, Properties|Comments Off on Hooded Merganser: Eye-catching Diver

Ovenbirds: Nesting Low, Migrating Far

Our spring newsmagazine featured Cliff’s top ten hidden gems of birding. Here is the second of a blog series on these birds, by guest blogger Ed Pope. The ovenbird gets its name from its dome-shaped nest, which looks like an old style oven. It is slightly larger than a goldfinch. [...]

By |2025-06-26T21:17:05+00:00May 19, 2021|A Million Trees, Blossom Hollow, Newsroom, Properties|Comments Off on Ovenbirds: Nesting Low, Migrating Far

Brood X is coming (but please don’t believe it’s an “invasion”).

by Traci Willis, Outreach Specialist Many headlines have begun to default to negative metaphors such as “invasion” or “infestation” when reporting about the upcoming periodical cicada emergence called Brood X. It’s true that at their highest concentration, there may be 1.5 million cicadas per acre in some areas. While [...]

By |2025-02-14T00:22:04+00:00May 13, 2021|Hikes and Events, Newsroom, Olivers Woods, Properties|Comments Off on Brood X is coming (but please don’t believe it’s an “invasion”).

Bright Bird: Scarlet Tanagers Favor Forest Interior

Our spring newsmagazine featured Cliff’s top ten hidden gems of birding. Here is the first of a blog series on these birds, by guest blogger Ed Pope. The male scarlet tanager is one of the most brightly colored birds you will ever see, if you can find one. Their [...]

By |2025-06-26T21:09:04+00:00May 10, 2021|A Million Trees, Blossom Hollow, Newsroom, Properties|Comments Off on Bright Bird: Scarlet Tanagers Favor Forest Interior

A Year Spent with Giants

May is Mental Health Awareness Month—the perfect time to celebrate the power of nature to boost mood and mental acuity. It’s no secret that nature—and forests in particular—can heal us. Physicians and mental health professionals are starting to recognize this. Many have begun to prescribe nature walks to their [...]

By |2025-06-26T21:24:34+00:00May 6, 2021|Homepage, Meltzer Woods, Newsroom, Properties|Comments Off on A Year Spent with Giants

Celebrating the Forever Promise

Second in a series on the Trek our Trails Challenge by guest blogger Ben Valentine It’s finally spring and I feel the need to get away from the city and cornfields to celebrate winter’s end. The Laura Hare Preserve at Blossom Hollow—brimming with wildflowers and more red-headed woodpeckers than I’ve [...]

By |2025-06-26T21:21:25+00:00April 16, 2021|Betley Woods, Blossom Hollow, Hikes and Events, Newsroom, Properties|Comments Off on Celebrating the Forever Promise
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