Archive - Red-Tails on the Fire Escape

Nature Observation and Mindfulness

how both paths lead us home

Jul 1 •

June 2025

I Am Small, I Contain Multitudes

Discovering the world in a native pollinator meadow

Jun 22 •

May 2025

How to Love an Owl

I’ve been holding out on you.

May 28 •

Woodland Flowers

I didn’t grow up in an outdoorsy kind of family.

May 21 •

April 2025

When I first moved to Boston, it was unusual to see a cottontail rabbit.

Apr 10 •

March 2025

At dusk on Monday night, I set out with two nature friends to a local vernal pool to see if we could catch a glimpse of newly awakened salamanders.

Mar 24 •

Hope When You Needed Hope

the gifts of early spring

Mar 14 •

October 2024

After our first Field Naturalist class, we were given the following assignment: Go for a nature walk and make an observation.

Oct 27, 2024 •

September 2024

from your old friend at Red-Tails on the Fire Escape

Sep 22, 2024 •

December 2020

I don’t know exactly when I started referring to the blue jays in our yard as my blue jays.

Dec 8, 2020 •

September 2020

Red-Tails on the Fire Escape

exploring the natural world within city limits

Sep 29, 2020 •

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