Photo credit: the Natural Capital
2. How to find spring peepers: After years of going out to listen to the spring peepers, we finally, finally found one. This post was about how.
3. Five amazing facts about crows: for starters, they can speak and use tools. Check out the video evidence I found.
4. Look for maple flowers: They're one of the most under-appreciated flowering trees in our area.
6. Look for putty root orchids: Orchids in the temperate forests of DC? You bet. But they're not easy to spot...
7. Look for eyed click beetles: Those eye spots are pretty amazing. And then they do their acrobatic jumping trick.
8. Look for katydids: Inspired by the DC/Baltimore Cricket Crawl, I collected the songs of five species of katydid and tried to learn them. As with so many things, it's so fun now to hear one of these chirps and to be able to pinpoint which katydid I'm hearing, without even seeing it.
9. Look for mica: On many trails in the DC area, the soil is full of little sparkly bits of mica. It's a great thing to look for in the winter while the plants are mostly hiding.
10. Look for katniss: I enjoyed reading the Hunger Games, but it took me a while to figure out that katniss is a plant that I actually have growing in my pond -- I just knew it by another name.
