Thanks to Tom for sending over the weekend:
“A big ass Northern Water Snake in Klingle Valley!
Rock Creek is quite swollen: (more…)
Hawks around Town
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.
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…)
“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…)
1st and L Street, NE
Thanks to Chelsea for sending these great shots from NoMa Monday morning: (more…)
Thanks to Stephen for sending:
“Either this is groundhog or the mascot for overly sweet hard cider. Spotted at the Festival Grounds at RFK Wednesday evening. (a closer view below) (more…)
Thanks to Nicole for sending:
“In a world that’s well, depressing, I’d like to extend BIG praise to the volunteers of DC City Wildlife’s Duck Watch. I had the privilege of watching one of their best in action (last Friday.) My friend and I spotted a mama duck and her 13 ducklings stuck in the empty fountain at City Center. Thankfully, (more…)
Thanks to Will for sending these great shots: (more…)