On April 1st, Shaver’s Creek Program Director for Team Development Rod Lee facilitated a two-hour networking and corporate challenge program that included high-energy initiatives and a smartphone texting-based scavenger hunt of Penn State’s campus. These activities not only connected the United Technologies Corporation (UTC) ambassadors with each other, but also to the business units of…
The Naturalist Notebook
Welcome to the Shaver’s Creek blog! The entries here are posted by staff, interns, and volunteers, and aim to keep you informed about the programs, updates, and natural history happenings here at the Creek. Enjoy!
Shaver’s Creek to hold annual competition, fundraiser By Lynn OndrusekCollegian Staff Writer Bird watchers, rejoice. Shaver’s Creek will hold its annual bird watching competition — the Birding Cup — Friday and Saturday. The event, which has been going on for nearly 20 years, is Shaver’s Creek’s main fundraiser for the year, said Joshua Potter, the…
Only seven days and six hours until 100+ birders begin their 24-hour odyssey for Shaver’s Creek’s annual Birding Cup fundraiser! We are still looking for more teams of birders to get involved for this year’s Cup. Visit our website or email Doug Wentzel to sign your team up today! NEW THIS YEAR: For every $50…
Check out WTAJ’s coverage of Penn State’s Earth Day event at the HUB, of which Shaver’s Creek was a part. See if you can spot our Intern Kelly Triece helping to run the Reduce•Reuse•Recycle RELAY. http://wearecentralpa.com/wtaj-news-fulltext?nxd_id=269137
Come down to the Earth Day festivities at HUB on campus! Shaver’s Creek staff, students and interns are holding a Reduce•Reuse•Recycle RELAY for prizes! Meet our Birds of Prey, and see what Penn State is doing to encourage “A Billion Acts of Green!” We’re here until 2PM. (follow #greenpsu on Twitter) See the full gallery…
As spring has arrived there are lots of exciting reemerging flora and fauna to find including bats! Here at Shaver’s Creek we have 10 bats boxes ranging in various sizes.These bats boxes serve as summer roosting homes for a number of different species of bats including little brown and big brown bats. Shaver’s Creek has…
Greetings all, A very enthusiastic group of 22 birders, representing a range of experiences from middle school novice to bird club regular, came out for the morning walk. Joshua P. and I split the group and hit the trails around the center. Highlights included singing ruby-crowned kinglets, blue-headed vireos and a black and white warbler.…
Shaver’s Creek is excited to partner with the Pennsylvania Native Plant Society this year to host their annual Native Plant Celebration & Sale on May 7, from 11 a.m.–5 p.m. This year we will celebrate the interrelationships between native plants and our resident bird species with the combination of the Plant Sale and our 24-hour…
Although Shaver’s Creek has always strived to be on the frontier of environmental sustainability, this past fall we have officially joined Penn State’s Green Team Initiative, headed by the Office of Sustainability. Green Teams are formed by a group of staff members in any given department on campus who want to help make their organization…
Greetings all, A sunny, cold and rewarding morning to be out and about with 8 other enthusiastic mid-week birders, including 4 of our Penn State students. We decided to do a mini “field trip” (rather than a bird walk) to Hutchinson Pond and the West Entrance of Stone Valley to take in Puddle Perez, which…