Nature Nearby: Interview with a box turtle
BY FRED SEITZ — I was walking in Magruder Park on a mild fall day when I encountered a park…
Nature Nearby: Raiders of the lost dark
BY FRED SEITZ — In mid-August, I went in my backyard about 3 a.m. to watch the Perseid meteor shower….
Nature Nearby: A hillside architect
Walk along the bike path next to the Northwest Branch and you may notice a pair of conspicuous holes in an…
Nature Nearby: A smelly harbinger of spring
Walk around the Trumbule Trail (the boardwalk through the Magruder Park swamp) and you’ll easily notice one of the earliest…
Nature Nearby: Nature’s barbed wire — the stuff of legend, food and drink
Take a walk in Magruder woods (and in many backyards) and you see or get poked by a bright green,…
Nature Nearby: A honk and a hink for the season
Whether you are walking along the Northwest Branch Trail ,especially near the Port of Bladensburg, or sitting quietly at home,…
Nature Nearby: A giant native supermarket and water purifier
The end of summer is a good time to take a walk around Magruder Park and notice the giant (7…
Nature Nearby: Dragons and damsels in Magruder Park
In late spring and early summer, Magruder Park goes into medieval mode as the air fills with dragonflies and damselflies….
Nature Nearby: Spring rains open the witches’ umbrellas
The recent mini-deluges have helped “spring up” one of the woodland’s familiar leafy faces, the mayapple, also known as the…
Nature Nearby: “God’s Dog” visits Hyattsville
BY FRED SEITZ — Early in July, a character known as the Trickster in Native American lore visited a Hyattsville…