The Joyce Road Neighborhood

Spring is here and we are spending more time outdoors enjoying the warm weather, but this warm weather also brings out the Deer Ticks ( Ixod...

Wildflowers are starting to bloom and honey bees are busy collecting nectar from any flowers they can find. It was a cool and windy day, and...

I was walking around our West Hill property and found large patches of the wildflower Spring Beauty ( Claytonia virginica ) . This perennial...

The warm spring weather has returned to the neighborhood, but most of the trees haven't developed leaves to create a shady foliage canop...

The warm spring weather is here and this young neighborhood buck is shedding his winter coat and starting to grow his first set of antlers. ...

For the second time this spring I found a Bald Eagle near the bridge over Wysox Creek. Bald eagles are opportunistic feeders and subsist ma...

The pipeline operations crew was on our property today to trap a "pipeline pig". Part of the routine maintenance of a natural gas ...

Most wildflowers wilt and fade away shortly after they bloom, but Common Teasel doesn't go away easily. After its flowers disappear the ...

SNOW... it was a couple of days late for an "April Fools" joke. We went all winter without any measurable snow fall and now we get...

The local deer have had it easy this winter without any snow cover and I found this deer enjoying the warm spring weather.

Last week the vernal equinox marked the official start of astronomical spring and some of the animals in the neighborhood have "spring ...

It was our pleasure to babysit our granddaughter, Myra, for the past week while her mother, Nikki, was attending a military conference in Wa...

The early spring wildflowers are starting to appear and today I spotted some bright yellow flowers along Joyce Road. At first I thought it w...

The signs of spring can be seen and heard throughout the neighborhood. The annual chorus of the Wood Frogs ( Lithobates sylvaticus ) and pe...

I was checking Wysox Creek today and found this small flock of common mergansers ( Mergus merganser ) swimming next to the bridge. These fi...