📜 EwA Week Highlights: Remembrances & Blossomings

[Mike McGlathery]

EwA Highlights March 22, 2025 Hello everyone,  Thanks for reading the March 22nd EwA highlights. It’s my birthday today, so I get one of the most wonderful gifts you can imagine every year: the arrival of spring. 📸 Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate the memory of Dan Onea with us this past Sunday at Deer Island. It was a wonderful day full of community, remembrances, and birds, such as these black scoters (Melanitta americana) photographed by Bill.  EwA iNaturalist Record (© Bill MacIndewar · Boston, MA · Mar. 16, 2025)  With the advent of spring, our naturalists are getting busy tracking seasonal changes, especially tracking plant phenology using EwA Pheno Lite. The changes can be dramatic, such as the large-scale leafing out of trees that’ll arrive soon enough, or subtle, such as this small female hazel (genus Corylus) bloom spotted by Dunja. EwA Pheno Lite is a great tool for tracking whatever seasonal changes in flora you’re seeing out in the field. EwA Pheno Lite Record (© @dunja · Woburn, MA · Mar. 19, 2025)  Just because it’s spring doesn’t mean the winter fireflies are gone yet! In fact, they’re becoming more active right around now with the early April mating season right around the corner. As you might have guessed by now, the winter firefly (Ellychnia corrusca) was EwA’s most-observed species once again this week. It’s been at the top of the list for about a month at this point! EwA iNaturalist Record (© Kristian Demary · Arlington, MA · Mar. 16, 2024)  📊 Thanks to everyone for your great biodiversity records this week, totaling 561 observations of 278 distinct species. If you’re curious about the records from this week that have been validated by the iNat community so far, you can find them » here. 🏆 Running tally: To date, we have recorded 226,799 observations of 12,357 distinct species! Check out our EwA umbrella project, see the details per site/observer, and more » here. 📅 EwA Upcoming Public Events Ewa Field Events » Check the EwA Spring [ Event details and registration » ] Don’t miss some great opportunities to follow the rhythm of the season in our local habitats and in the local wildlife! Space is limited for all our field events. Wildlife ethics is important to us and we seek to avoid putting the pressure on natural habitats which large gatherings unavoidably do. We are asking our audience to register-and-commit (or cancel when you know you can’t come) to avoid no-shows. EwA Fieldwork (and Resources) It’s a great time to join our monitoring programs. Check EwA’s Volunteer Program Calendar 📅  to know when things happen. And if a session is of interest to you, don’t hesitate to reach out to get the rendezvous location. 📅 EwA Sites Map | 🌱 Site Protocols and Guides · Field Rosters · Field Notes » All here! | ℹ️ More about EwA’s Citizen Science Program » Here ❓ Do you have any questions? Don’t be shy. Just email me or reply to this thread.  That’s all for this week—hope you have a good one! -Mike