Thanks to Tom for sending over the weekend:
“A big ass Northern Water Snake in Klingle Valley!
Rock Creek is quite swollen: (more…)
wildlife
Ed. Note: When my wife finally let’s me run for City Council HIGH on my platform will be ensuring the abundance of Foxes, Hawks, Eagles, and of course Black Rat Snakes. Also, please remember to vote for current candidates – you should have (or will soon) received your primary ballot in the mail.
“Dear PoPville,
Spotted on Columbia Road and 16th Street, NW at 11:45pm earlier tonight (Wednesday):
A fox returning to pick up what looks like a dead rat after being scared off by a passing pedestrian. (more…)
Thanks to Christopher for sending: “Great Blue Heron from the Roosevelt Island pedestrian bridge.”
If you spot a hawk, any interesting wildlife or celebrity skateboarder Tony Hawk, and get a good photo please send in an email where you spotted them to [email protected]. Thanks! Hawks around Town is made possible by a generous grant from the Ben and Sylvia Gardner foundation.
Thanks to Faith for sending this great shot from Georgetown.
Friends of the White Whale Society is brought to you by the team behind Hawks*** around Town. You can email your sightings to [email protected]
If you spot a hawk, any interesting wildlife or celebrity skateboarder Tony Hawk, and get a good photo please send in an email where you spotted them to [email protected]. Thanks! Hawks around Town is made possible by a generous grant from the Ben and Sylvia Gardner foundation.
Ed. Note: Thanks to all who’ve been messaging me turkeys lately. That’s a funny sentence to type… Please send still photos and not videos unless the turkey is doing back flips or something. :)
Thanks to Nick for sending the photo above from Adams Morgan: “Turkey strolling down Mintwood Place in the Kalorama/AdMo area. Watching people do double-takes as they noticed it was quite funny.”
And thanks to Karen for sending the photo below from Foggy Bottom: (more…)
Thanks to Tom for sending from the wilds of North Cleveland Park:
“This guy or gal ran right past me around 7:30pm while I was sitting in my front yard. (more…)
4200 Kansas Ave, NW at Georgia and Upshur
Thanks to Arthur for sending us on Saturday: “If you see a swarm, google DC Swarm Squad and they will send a DC bee keeper who will give them a forever home.” (more…)
Thanks to Erik for sending: “My husband captured this beauty (Barred Owl) on our backyard fence in Colonial Village!” (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
We have been slowly converting our front yard into a native plant-scape…and it is finally bearing fruit (of the insect kind)! We noticed a lone monarch butterfly flittering around the milkweeds and a couple of weeks later saw that something had been nibbling the leaves. We turned over a few and, lo-and-behold, we have caterpillars! They are super tiny and our son is checking on them every morning. We’ve noticed lots of other pollinators as well even though it is early in the year: a black swallowtail, sulphurs, honeybees, sphinx moths, and even a hummingbird moth (all on moss phlox). (more…)
Thanks to M. for sending these spectacular photos from North Portal Estates: (more…)