September brings out our local artists! David Cohen, Deborah LaCroix and Annette Polan are featured in local shows and talks in the coming days and weeks. David Cohen David Cohen, […]
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Neighbors Recommend: The butterflies of Montgomery Parks’ Brookside Gardens
by David Cohen Love vibrant color and stunning design? Marvel at the magic of nature? Go crazy over butterflies? Then April 18 is your day! Walk into “hundreds of brilliant […]
Backyard Nature: Spring’s opening act
by Marjorie Rachlin March is maddening. Cold on, cold off, and occasionally, a snowstorm zaps us. But right now there are daffodils in bloom, and blossoming cherry trees bedeck our […]
Backyard Nature: How do tiny chickadees survive the frigid cold?
We have been seeing chickadees at our feeders this winter, taking sunflower seeds and flying off with them. They somehow made it through the frigid early January temperatures. But how? […]
Nearby nature: Birds and more flock to Audubon’s Chevy Chase headquarters
by David Cohen The Audubon Naturalist Society (audubonnaturalist.org) has its headquarters at Woodend, its Chevy Chase, Maryland mansion and grounds at 8940 Jones Mill Road. Its first mention that I […]
Help DC “win” the 2017 City Nature Challenge
The naturalists of the 18th and 19th centuries had to rely on pen and ink and taxidermy to record their finds. We have small pocket computers that we carry everywhere. […]
Backyard nature: Bird feeder mania!
by David Cohen There must be something going around. At the end of my last Forest Hills Connection post, “Backyard nature: Winter is for the birds,” I mentioned our first […]
Backyard nature: Winter is for the birds
by David Cohen Thank you, Marlene Berlin! When I sent my photos from Mason Neck State Park in Lorton, Virginia, she suggested I look at Marjorie Rachlin’s marvelous 2013 and […]
Neighbors recommend: Mason Neck State Park
by David Cohen For a major urban area, we’re lucky to have easy access to the great outdoors! On November 13 and 26, I made my first visits to Mason […]
Backyard Nature: A bounty of butterflies
by David Cohen As we approach autumn, here’s a reminder of the bounty of summer: a half-dozen butterfly photos from June through September, and from three of my favorite parks. […]