Last Friday, we were treated to an amazing display of blooms on a visit to one of our properties under easement in northern Chester County. The woodland was covered in pinxterbloom, one of our few native azalea species. It commonly occurs in mixed deciduous forests and is very shade tolerant.

While doing a nighttime marsh bird survey recently on a property subject to a conservation easement, we were fortunate to locate several Virginia rails...

The shadbush are in bloom. According to local lore, the blooming of shadbush coincides with the annual return of migratory shad to our local rivers. In fact, the concurrence of these two events is how Amelanchier arborea got its common name of shadbush.

Our staff horticulturalist, Mark Gormel, tipped us off to the location of this interesting find on the grounds on the Conservancy's offices here in Chadds Ford...