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Wow! Already we are on our fourth issue of this community online venue for Chester County, Pennsylvania, specializing in the natural world. Please leave your comments and submit new articles to make it a truly interactive site. Our featured post this month is a presentation of Bill Colombo’s Angelfish breeding project. We did a field trip to Florida and besides some fun in the sun, we came back with posts on Sanibel Island, CREW Bird Rookery Swamp, Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, and Bunche Beach. There is a new post in the Stories category — a list of Safety Rules for anyone who isn’t homeless. You should read these!!!

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CREW Bird Rookery Swamp – 2/18/2022

CREW Bird Rookery Swamp – 2/18/2022     by Bill Gadbow CREW stands for Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed. The CREW Bird Rookery Swamp has a three-mile trail through a working cattle ranch, and it is about eight miles from the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary. On the half-mile car ride from the rookery entrance sign to the parking lot, we saw almost every kind of Florida wading bird. They were fishing in a large drainage ditch that followed along the road. There were Anhinga, Little Blue Herons, Snowy Egrets, Great Egrets, Tri-colored Herons, Cormorants, and other birds eating for free. After we parked and paid our on-the-honor-system three dollars, we walked around the edges of the parking area and saw a dozen Wood Storks. Score one for the visiting team! By now it was late morning, and it was starting to get warm (like mid-eighties). There was just one path that led ...
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Submitted by Bill Gadbow

Brown Pelican, JN “Ding” Darling NWR, 2/16/2022

 Brown Pelican, JN “Ding” Darling NWR, 2/16/2022
Brown Pelican, JN “Ding” Darling NWR, 2/16/2022

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Breeding Angelfish – bringing Nature Indoors

    By Bill Colombo and Dave Gadbow

Here is one of the videos where the baby fish are about a month old. To see a series of videos with commentary that shows the entire process, click on the article below, “Angelfish”, or go to either the Videos or Fauna categories on the site to see the article. Parents often refer to their offspring as “perfect little angels”. In this story, that is not an exaggeration.

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Angelfish

Bringing Nature Inside – Breeding Angelfish        by Bill Colombo and Dave Gadbow The Gadbow family is pretty large and one of the ways we stay in touch is with family group texts. In January and February of this year, we all got to witness a really interesting ...
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Safety List

Safety Rules     by Bill Gadbow   .... an excerpt from "The Balderson Drive Conspiracy One" by Bill Gadbow, available on paperback or as an e-book on Amazon Books ... When I got back from New Mexico, a few things happened at home that I had to take care ...
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