This Tuesday marked the start of 2010’s first week of the Discovery and Explorer camps at Shaver’s Creek! This summer, the Discovery Campers (aged 6-8) will be focusing on learning about insects, while the Explorer campers (aged 9-11) will be learning about amphibians. During the Discovery and Explorer camps, campers are given the opportunity to…
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!
My son Ellory visited Shaver’s Creek today, and we took a walk in the woods to find out what the summer campers were up to. Along the way we heard Scarlet Tanager, Ovenbird, Black-throated Green Warbler and Red-eyed Vireo singing. When we caught up to the campers, they were ankle deep in Shaver’s Creek staying…
On June 16th, Shaver’s Creek played host to state FFA Forestry and Aquatic Resource Contests. See the full gallery on Posterous
Elise, Johanna, and I had the pleasure of doing a BoP show at the State College High School’s annual Renaissance Faire on Monday, May 24. This show, however, was not your typical BoP program. First of all, the requested program was on renaissance falconry. Now, our birds are not capable of falconry, but we were…
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Wishing our departing intern staff the best of luck on their future endeavors. Pictured clockwise from top left are the spring 2010 interns; Alyssa Thiel, Elizabeth McMahon, Lauren Seiler, Lisa Scarbrough, Lauren Chain, Daniel Hontz, Jordan Aoyama, and Elise Hagenberger.
The spring interns were hard at work in their final week at Shaver’s Creek; backpacking, teaching, and practicing animal handling. Pictured are: 1) (clockwise) Lauren Chain, Ryan Elliot, Ashley Williams, Lauren Seiler, Alyssa Thiel, and Lisa Scarbrough at the start of their backpacking course over Memorial Day weekend. The interns (and friends) hiked and camped…
I’m glad to report that we’ve restocked the shelves of our bookstore with 10 more autographed copies of Nick Bolgiano and Greg Grove’s Birds of Central Pennsylvania, after the first 10 sold in a flash. The book includes wonderful descriptions, maps, graphics and species accounts of the best birding around these parts! You can also…
Paul Brigman and I spent two hours birding a corner of Penn State’s Stone Valley Forest this morning. We started the day in Masseyburg, along “Watershed Road” (listed on Google Maps as “Unnamed Forest Road”). In the large young pine plantation along the east side of the road, highlights included: Yellow-breasted Chat (1-2) Indigo Bunting…
You are here: home »news & events Invasive Plants Threaten PA Biodiversity, Shaver’s Creek Responds Over the past two decades, an unprecedented increase in international trade has introduced an equally unprecedented number of non-native plant species to the U.S.. Some of these varieties thrive and multiply at an unnatural rate here, in the absence of…