Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Blog on temporary hiatus

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The Nature Strollers are still out hiking, but our Blog is on temporary hiatus. Please click on the recent posts to the left for an overview...
Monday, April 05, 2010

Twenty Toads A-Trilling

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Our Monday Strollers trip leaders reported not twenty but over one hundred American toads active in the ponds! The high temperatures has se...
Saturday, March 20, 2010

The Strollers Celebrate the Vernal Equinox on the Trail

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Two-and-a-half weeks ago we had three feet of snow. One week ago we had inches and inches of flooding rains. This week we have temps in the ...
Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Secret Messages and Hidden Gems

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Other children have passed this way before us. They left behind a cryptic message written on the smooth tablet of an artist's conch mush...
Monday, November 09, 2009

Autumn Rambles--Sterling Forest

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Sterling Forest State Park is our new stomping ground this season. The kids have grown and are enjoying the more challenging terrain. We cli...
Tuesday, June 02, 2009

No, She Doesn't Sting!

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Sybil discovered this five inch long ichneumon wasp, Megarhyssa macrurus , on the side of a shagbark hickory tree at Goose Pond Mountain Sta...
Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Orchid Surprise!

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On our walk today, we came across something completely unexpected, a rare and wonderful surprise. Scattered across the forest floor in a sec...
Saturday, May 09, 2009

Fuller Mountain Brook

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We subscribe to the immersion method of nature study here at Nature Strollers. Rule number one: never visit a stream without getting your f...
Sunday, April 26, 2009

Glenmere Lake, 26 April 2009

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The 95 degree weather kept most creatures out-of-sight, but we couldn't pass up a quick (but HOT) trip to Glenmere for a picnic in the p...
Friday, April 24, 2009

Fitzgerald Falls, 24 April 2009

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Ferrying toddlers across the stream proved much easier than we thought. Olivia enjoys her sandwich with the falls as a backdrop. What a pic...