animal sightings
Butterfly Monitoring
This post was written by LREC Volunteer Educator Donna Bourisaw. Pam Walsh looks for butterflies with visiting students at LREC…
Reflections on LREC
This piece was submitted by Lauren McDaniel, a grad student in Wash U’s Landscape Architecture program. She interned at LREC…
Oh Deer!
Working at an ecology center, it probably comes as no surprise when we share that staff, volunteers, students and teachers…
The New Steps
Earlier this year we added new steps from the deck down to the trails. Danelle caught the response of some…
Bird Cam: What Birds?
Over the weekend Danelle aimed a motion sensing camera at our bird feeders. Of the 600+ photos, there were a…
Nature’s Camo
As you may have read in our May newsletter, the Glass House Quiz is about hard-to-spot animals. We scoured our…
ID of mystery amphibian unveiled (sort of)
No reader of the May issue of our newsletter was able to id the mystery amphibian on page 7. On…
Young Feathered Friends
There have been several sightings of young friends in the past couple of weeks. Mama ducks have been leading the…
Spring Warbler Migration
Northern parula Spring migration of warblers has started and several species have been spotted and/or heard in the last two…
Crayfish!
Duchesne’s 3rd grade classes came out to the site recently to investigate Who Eats What. Janice Weil’s group found a…
Coyote hunting deer?
Yesterday morning as I was driving down the glass house driveway I had to brake for a coyote running across…