WOW! Great Backyard Bird Count!
This weekend Feb. 15-18, is the Great Backyard Bird Count. Every year on President’s Day Weekend people all over North America count the birds in their yard, their neighborhood, a park or any place...
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WOW-Great Backyard Bird Count in progress!
It’s happening right now! The Great Backyard Bird Count is this weekend. You can go to this website- http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/ to submit your count and to see what others are doing. And, as...
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WOW- Great Backyard Bird Count and More!
It’s not too late to submit your bird counts to the GBBC. If you participated in this great birding activity on President’s Day weekend you have until March 1 to submit your counts. I confess to...
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WOW! Nature Scavenger Hunt!
Several families with children had fun today at Lake Davidson Nature Preserve with a late winter nature scavenger hunt. This event was friendly to all ages as children could find “something green” or...
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WOW- Reptile Day at Davidson College
Saturday was Reptile Day at Davidson College. What a great day! Besides beautiful weather there was a great turn out for this event. We got to see so many great animals and to talk to many experts...
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WOW- bugs, bees and butterflies!
A lively group joined WOW and Cakey Worthington, of Davidson College, May 4that the Davidson Greenway. Our goal: find and identify various bugs, bees and butterflies. The cool weather kept some bugs...
View ArticleWOW- What can you find in this creek?
One of the things that we often see when we visit a creek in the summer is a dragonfly. The life cycle of the dragonfly is quite interesting. A male and female dragonfly mate while flying in the air....
View ArticleWOW- Ladybugs!
This Saturday at the Farmer’s Market the WOW booth will be featuring Ladybugs. We call them bugs but Ladybugs are actually in the beetle family and the scientific name is Coccinella septempunctata....
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WOW- Ponds at the Market!
Sandy McCord from Ponds R Us and Theresa Morr from North Carolina Wildlife Federation brought the world of wonder to the Farmer’s Market. Sandy created a pond that children played in, and he answered...
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WOW- Creek Outing!
Kids and parents waded in the creek and discovered all kinds of life – dragonfly nymphs, damselfly nymphs, crayfish, mayfly nymphs, a frog, a leech, and aquatic worms. Most of us had no idea of the...
View ArticleWOW-Letterboxing
On July 13 how about trying out our treasure hunt at the Farmer’s Market. We want to use this as an opportunity to introduce you to the fun hobby called Letterboxing. This activity developed out of...
View ArticleWOW- What’s that sound?
So what’s that sound? Is it a cricket, a bird, a frog, a cicada, a katydid? A Katydid? What’s that? One thing that I really enjoy about summer is the variety of insect sounds that you can hear in our...
View ArticleWOW- It’s Fall!
According to an article in today’s Charlotte Observer the Autumnal Equinox occurs today at 4:44 pm Eastern Daylight time. So we should begin to notice the changes in weather and the changes in nature...
View ArticleWOW- How Big is the Universe?
Humans have always been fascinated by the night sky. The ancients described the sky in terms of the patterns of stars we know as constellations. In the modern age we know a lot more about stars and...
View ArticleWOW- Why do leaves change color in the fall?
Have you ever wondered why the leaves on trees change from green to another color in the fall? The picture above is a tree in my yard- a ginkgo tree. It was green just a few days ago and now it’s...
View ArticleWOW- Birds are nesting!
The picture shows a Carolina Wren in the nest bottle where it is building a nest. Wrens seem to like to build close t0 where we live. Maybe you have one nesting in a hanging basket or in your mail...
View ArticleWOW- Weather and Stargazing.
Our regular readers and our WOW email list friends know that recently we had planned a Stargazing event that we had to cancel because of the weather prediction. We actually canceled the event more than...
View ArticleWOW-Reptiles and Amphibians!
Were you one of the many people who attended Reptile Day at Davidson College a few weeks ago? Well, WOW was there and we got to meet a lot of interesting people as well as reptiles and amphibians....
View ArticleWOW-Pollinators!
What is a Pollinator? Well, first you have to understand about pollination. Pollination is the process involved in fertilizing flowers so they can make seeds and reproduce. All flowering plants produce...
View ArticleWOW- Nature Numbers!
This past Saturday was WOW’s Nature Numbers outing. We explored the fascinating world of nature numbers. We discovered the Fibonacci sequence in pinecones, pineapples, daisies, and flowers we found on...
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