What’s Blooming Now?
April 21, 2026
Join us for our “What’s Blooming Now”? Series! This month we will focus on spring ephemerals, and other seasonal flora. A fun and educational look at spring botany for all ages!
Join us for our “What’s Blooming Now”? Series! This month we will focus on spring ephemerals, and other seasonal flora. A fun and educational look at spring botany for all ages!
Join us as we learn about and taste some of the indigenous wild plants used in Liberty Tea blends. Pre-registration required by: May 22nd. Fee is $5 per person
Families will explore nature together through short journaling and drawing activities inspired by what we see and hear. Let’s all slow down and connect with the outdoors.
Join us this month for “Water Quality Detectives”! We will go down to the stream and collect stream samples looking for macroinvertebrates, do a turbidity test and learn about indicator species. Ages 5-12
by Danniela Ciatto Trailside Nature Museum has been very busy this past year! There have been so many exciting things happening, and I’d love to share some highlights with you all. As always, we had a very successful year welcoming school groups for our Native American program. We hosted 56
by Hayley Lewis Ward Pound Ridge Reservation’s diverse ecosystems provide ample habitat for a wide variety of avian species, with our meadows in particular being known for our abundance of Eastern bluebirds and tree swallows. Both species, known for their vibrant blue hues and beautiful songs, happen to have particular
by Leah Cass With its habitat mosaic of forests, meadows, wetlands, ponds, and streams, Ward Pound Ridge Reservation provides ideal habitat for many important wildlife species. One such species is the eastern box turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina), and while this elusive animal may not make frequent appearances to park visitors,
Let us go on a brisk hike to welcome in spring! Approximately 1-mile hike, hiking shoes recommended.
Learn about the coyote, their persecution, and how they manage to be one of America’s most successful carnivores.
It is that time of year when our amphibians have migrated to their vernal pools and begin to sing their chorus in celebration of warmer weather! Let us check in on this phenomenon.