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January 13, 2012
Observations From A Single Spot
Try this activity with your students this winter. Students select a spot on the schoolyard to make observations. They sit for a few minutes and just look, listen, smell and touch. Then they record impressions and observations.
Posted by Eddie Jones at 12:34 PM | Comments (0)
January 9, 2012
January Bluebirds
I just had my first bluebird sighting of the year and was fortunate enough to have a camera with me. Two males and one female were hanging out in the recently burnt North Woods. There are two bird boxes nearby, so lets keep our fingers crossed - maybe we will have bluebirds nesting here this year!
Male Bluebird (Sialia sialis)
Female Bluebird (Sialia sialis) - note her muted colors compared to the male.
Posted by Danelle Haake at 2:05 PM | Comments (0)
December 19, 2011
Dramatic vista
Posted by Danelle Haake at 3:25 PM | Comments (0)
November 28, 2011
Belted Kingfisher Sighting
These two belted kingfisher (Ceryle alcyon) were spotted along Deer Creek this morning. These two, along with a third not in the photo, were making a bit of a racket.
Posted by Danelle Haake at 11:51 AM | Comments (0)
September 27, 2011
New Mailing Address
Our new mailing address is:
Litzsinger Road Ecology Center
292 East Ave. Suite 28
Webster Groves, MO 63119-1702
Our physical address remains the same.
Posted by Jennifer Krause at 2:04 PM | Comments (0)
August 22, 2011
Prairie Royalty -- Monarchs visit LREC
Monarch butterfly eggs have been found on three types of milkweed at LREC in the past couple of weeks. We've been raising a few of them ourselves so we can witness the exciting changes of these creatures.
Posted by Danelle Haake at 9:26 AM | Comments (0)
July 15, 2011
New Water Quality Study
The 2011 paper Water Quality in Deer Creek and its Tributaries by Danelle Haake is now available to download. This study is an analysis of samples collected by Stream Team 2760 in the portion of Deer Creek running through Litzsinger Road Ecology Center. Download the study as a pdf (694KB).
Posted by Jennifer Krause at 10:37 AM | Comments (0)
