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News, ideas, questions, and observations from Willistown Conservation Trust Staff as we use local conservation to make a broad impact.

Nature Nature Education Rushton Nature Keepers

Nature Escapes for Kids: Healing Forest Art Walk

Blake Goll – March 26, 2020 –

Nature Nature Education Rushton Nature Keepers

Nature Escapes for Kids: Building Toad Abodes and Heart Space

Blake Goll – March 24, 2020 –

Native Plants native wildflower meadow Stewardship wildflower meadow

Create Your Own Meadow – Step 3: Preserve

Stewardship Team – March 19, 2020 –

General

Update Regarding COVID-19 (Coronavirus)

Willistown Conservation Trust – March 13, 2020 –

Conservation Native Plants Stewardship

Create Your Own Meadow – Step 2: Plant

Stewardship Team – March 3, 2020 –

Conservation Nature Stewardship Volunteers

Announcing Weekly Preserve Workdays

Jspragins – February 25, 2020 –

Conservation Native Plants Nature Stewardship

Explore Nature at Willistown Conservation Trust’s Preserves

Stewardship Team – February 6, 2020 –

Staff Stewardship

A Farewell and a Welcome

Bonnie Van Alen – February 6, 2020 –

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Creating Your Own Meadow – Step 1: Prepare

Stewardship Team – February 5, 2020 –

Conservation Land Protection Nature Stewardship

Behold the Hackberry!

Stewardship Team – January 29, 2020 –

Conservation Land Protection

The Willistown Conservation Trust Staff and Trustees Mourn a Hero of the Countryside

Jspragins – January 27, 2020 –

Conservation Land Protection

What 40 Years of Conserving Land Looks Like

Erik Hetzel – January 15, 2020 –

Bird Banding Bird Conservation Conservation

Resolve to Be a Better Human for Birds (i.e., Earth)

Blake Goll – January 10, 2020 –

Conservation Rushton Conservation Center Uncategorized

An Artist’s Thoughts on Conserved Land

Communications Team – December 11, 2019 –

Conservation Nature Rushton Conservation Center Stewardship

With the Spotted Lanternfly it’s Always Squash Season

Communications Team – November 14, 2019 –

Conservation Land Protection Nature Watershed

12.7 More Acres Conserved Forever

Communications Team – November 11, 2019 –

Staff Stewardship Uncategorized

Welcome Andrew Kirkpatrick

Willistown Conservation Trust – October 30, 2019 –

Conservation Land Protection Stewardship

Public Notice of Accreditation Renewal

Erik Hetzel – October 25, 2019 –

Bird Banding Bird Conservation Bird ecology Birds migration

Our 1000th Bird – A Look at the Numbers

Bird Conservation Team – October 25, 2019 –

Bird Banding Bird Conservation Farm

Community Supported Avifauna

Blake Goll – October 22, 2019 –

Conservation Farm Nature Rushton Conservation Center Watershed

BYOB – Bring your own BAG

Watershed Protection Team – July 9, 2019 –

The average family accumulates about 60 plastic bags in only four trips to the grocery store. The majority of these...

Conservation Interns, Co-Ops Nature Stewardship Watershed

New Trees Breathe New Life into Ailing Streamside Meadow

Watershed Protection Team – July 9, 2019 –

In the haze of a steamy May morning, a team of volunteers, students, and Trust staff met in the dewy,...

Birds Conservation Interns, Co-Ops Nature

Back to School: Banding a purple martin colony

Jspragins – July 5, 2019 –

About a 15-minute drive from Willistown Conservation Trust are the Glen Mills Schools (GMS). While this private institution is closed...

Conservation Farm Rushton Conservation Center

Welcome to the Rushton Conservation Center

Kat Gord – July 2, 2019 –

Here at Willistown Conservation Trust, we take our commitment to protecting the land very seriously. Over the past fifteen years,...

Academic Partners Conservation Interns, Co-Ops Watershed

Meet our Watershed Protection Program co-ops!

Jspragins – July 1, 2019 –

Each summer, Willistown Conservation Trust hosts students who are pursuing degrees related to the conservation work we do here. We...

Conservation Nature Watershed

Refill Your Water Bottle

Lauren McGrath – July 1, 2019 –

Human reliance on commercially bottled water is one of the single largest contributors to plastic pollution. At Willistown Conservation Trust,...

Bird Banding Bird ecology migration

For the Love of Birds

Blake Goll – November 14, 2018 –

On the morning before Halloween, the hedgerows and meadows of Rushton were teeming with migratory birds that had descended on...

Bird banding, Bird Conservation, Brown Creeper, fall migration, Golden-crowned kinglet, kinglet, songbird migration

Bird Banding Bird ecology

Banders Seeing Purple

Blake Goll – October 28, 2018 –

This is the time of the season when banders are beginning to grow weary as a result of having been...

Bird banding, fall songbird migration, migration, Myrtle Warbler, songbird banding, yellow-rumped warbler

Bird Banding Bird ecology migration

When it's Cold Outside, I've Got the Month of May

Blake Goll – October 20, 2018 – 6 Replies –

As if we weren't already a motley crew, banders donned their mismatch layers of winter coats, thrifted fleeces, alpaca fingerless...

Bird banding, bird migration, Cape May Warbler, fall songbird migration, purple finch, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Bird Banding Bird ecology migration

Something to Chat About

Blake Goll – October 12, 2018 – 2 Replies –

Another dreary, drippy morning on Tuesday surprisingly produced a season record of 54 birds spanning a dazzling 20 species. Highlights...

Bird banding, kids and birds, Rushton Farm, songbird banding, students and birds, yellow-breasted chat

Bird Banding Bird ecology

Not Just Smoke and Sparrows

Blake Goll – October 5, 2018 – 3 Replies –

Mornings at Rushton this week were humid with water dripping from every leaf and berry. As the sun ignited the...

Bird banding, Connecticut Warbler, kids and nature, migration, Winter Wren

Bird Banding Bird Conservation migration

How You Like Me Now? Crowds Get Heavy at Rushton

Blake Goll – September 29, 2018 –

This week of banding was a whirlwind of feathers, fanatics, and fog. It began with our bi-annual Open House last...

Bird banding, Blackpoll warbler, environmental education, Motus Wildlife Tracking, White eyed Vireo

Bird Banding Bird ecology

It's Raining Warblers, Hallelujah!

Blake Goll – September 21, 2018 – 1 Reply –

Late September is a thrilling time of abundance in the natural world. As more yellow leaves begin to hustle to...

Bird banding, fall songbird migration, Gray-cheeked Thrush, magnolia warbler, migration, Scarlet Tanager, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

Bird Banding Bird ecology migration

Put the Lime in the Chestnut-side

Blake Goll – September 13, 2018 – 3 Replies –

Strikingly different from the deep calico colors it flaunts during breeding season, the fall Chestnut-sided Warbler is still a...

American Redstart, Bird banding, Chestnut-sided warbler, fall migration, songbird conservation, veery, wood thrush

agroecology Bird Banding migration

You Look Like a Tall Glass of Waterthrush

Blake Goll – September 6, 2018 –

The sallow leaves fell slowly through the visible cloak of humidity, dark silhouettes of jays pierced through the gray overhead,...

Bird banding, bird migration, Carolina Wren, fall songbird migration, northern waterthrush, sustainable farming

Bird Banding Bird ecology migration

Warblers Comin' in Hot

Blake Goll – September 4, 2018 – 2 Replies –

The Rushton banding crew was back at it this morning, collecting as much data as possible before the temperature exceeded...

American Redstart, Bird banding, fall songbird migration, magnolia warbler, Rushton Woods Preserve, wood thrush

Bird Banding Bird ecology migration

If Black-throated Blues are Here, Fall is Near

Blake Goll – August 30, 2018 – 2 Replies –

Even though the autumn equinox has not yet occurred and you're still wistfully packing your bags for one last summer...

Bird banding, Black-throated Blue warbler, early successional shrub habitat, fall songbird migration, Rushton Farm

Bird Banding Bird Conservation migration

A Toast to Our Birds of 2017 and the Peculiar Tower Atop the Greenhouse

Blake Goll – December 20, 2017 –

I like winter. As December rolls around and the snow sparkles and swirls outside my window, I have no choice...

Bird banding, Connecticut Warbler, Motus Wildlife Tracking, nanotag, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Rushton Farm

Bird Banding Bird Conservation migration

Monitoring Songbirds On the Move: Rushton Banding Station's Eighth Autumn

Bird Conservation Team – September 11, 2017 – 1 Reply –

The last day of August was the inauguration of our eighth fall banding season at Rushton Woods Preserve. Aside from...

Bird banding, early successional shrub habitat, fall migration, MAPS banding, stopover ecology, sustainable farming

Bird Conservation Native Plants wildflower meadow

Inspiration From a Wildflower Meadow

Blake Goll – December 31, 2016 – 4 Replies –

The following is an excerpt taken this year from my journal, "Meadow Walking," an attempt to document the delights of our...

american goldfinch, black swallowtail, false sunflower, grass leaved goldenrod, hyssop leaved boneset, native wildflower meadow, new york ironweed, virginia cup plant

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