Things that go Flap in the Night: Nighthawks and Bats at the Cemetery

Nighthawks and bats come out at dusk to fatten up on cemetery bugs before migration and hibernation. In this special mini episode, we take a page from the Field Guides and record a full episode outside at one of our favorite urban parks, the Mount Moriah Cemetery. Tony and Billy bring along our partners and one very excited five-year-old, jacked up on hot chocolate and urban wildlife.

Shiners, Mussels, and Marbled Sallies: Helping Critters that Rely on City Waters

Fish and mussel tanks at the Philadelphia, Fairmount Park Waterworks.

Fish and mussel tanks at the Philadelphia, Fairmount Park Waterworks mussel hatchery.

Tony and Billy join Robin Irizarry (Philadelphia Watershed Coordinator for the Tookany/Tacony Frankford Watershed Partnership) at his Irizarry Hillstead and hear Bryan Windmiller talk about Grassroots Wildlife Conservation‘s work with marbled salamanders and bridle shiners in the Boston area and about mussels in the Philadelphia area. Billy takes a mussel hatchery tour with Kurt Cheng of the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary.