Marty Nicolaus

Winter Honey

Flora Friday, the weekly botanical column, said this past March 15 that Cape Honeysuckle “can produce its flowers just about

The big flocks of Scaup shown here in the far distance on the North Basin give a small taste of

Park management deserves applause for finally addressing some of the long-standing gaps in boundary signage for the dog park (“off-leash

Pelicans, cormorants, and gulls combined in a mad feeding frenzy this morning, tracking a school of fish that erred into

Yesterday I could not spot the Burrowing Owl that has settled in the nature area, and I worried that the

Two rafts of Scaup, each numbering in the hundreds of birds, cruised near the center of the North Basin Cove.

The Burrowing Owl that has made the nature area on the north side of the park its seasonal home defied

This video combines two sightings. The first was on 12/24, when two White-tailed Kites shared a treetop in the forested

I saw this bird preening energetically off the north shore of the park. It wasn’t until I focused tight that

One Coot is a carbon copy of another, but Rock Pigeons wear distinct feather fashions. Pigeon fanciers have a complex