College Park Wild: Sex among the sparrows
By Rick Borchelt All winter long, white-throated sparrows (Zonotrichia albicollis) are the most common sparrows at my backyard bird feeders.. …
College Park Wild: The spa in the spathe
By Rick Borchelt February in Maryland often brings some of the season’s coldest temperatures, along with our best chances for…
College Park Wild : Sapsucker Signals
By Rick Borchelt Here in central Maryland, we can see woodpeckers all year long. In College Park, we regularly count…
College Park Wild: Good berries, bad berries
By Rick Borchelt A mockingbird staked out a deciduous holly at the corner of the house this week. The holly’s…
College Park Wild : Leave the leaves
By Rick Borchelt It was the height of midsummer, and my spearmint was in bloom. The flowers are favorites of…
College Park Wild: Welcome to Arachtober!
By Rick Borchelt For most people, when their mind turns to spiders, they see images of horror, like Shelob in…
College Park Wild: Dragons of summer
By Rick Borchelt These are the hot, hazy days of summer’s end when the meteorological season finally catches up with…
Citizens of the (natural) world
By Rick Borchelt Conservationists say it so often that it may seem trite, but it is entirely true that if…
College Park Wild: Jeepers, creepers, can you hear the peepers?
By Rick Borchelt During our first few spring-like days back in March, when daytime temperatures were in the 50s and…
College Park Wild: Nature’s night light
By Rick Borchelt It’s been a spring with a lot of days that seemed like we were in a refrigerator,…
