📜 EwA Week Recap: Fresh White-tailed Deer Carcass, Coyotes, Cool EwA Tee-shirt Campaign & more...

[Claire O'Neill]

Here's the recap of another busy week at EwA and a few highlights of what's coming...

Quick announcement: our EwA store is up and showcases our first tee-shirt "Nature Conservation Science for All" tee-shirt campaign. Have a look! > https://www.bonfire.com/store/earthwise-aware/ Wear EwA's colors Proudly! 100% of the profits go directly to our work democratizing climate and biodiversity sciences. 

📸  So many interesting winter sightings again this week. If we have to pick one, that'd be the unexpected sighting of a white-tailed deer carcass in the Fells spotted by Bill. Definitely not something that one sees every day in the Fells! And look how the carcass has been eaten clean! We assume it's the work of a coyote.

 

📊  Thanks to all for great biodiversity records this week!  - 126 observations total over 73 species. Curious about this week's records that have been validated by the iNat community so far? > here.

 

Running tally : 🏆  To date, we recorded 58,162 observations of 5,942 distinct species! Check our EwA umbrella project and see the details per site/observer & more... > here. 

 

📅  EwA Coming Events

• Our next public Biodiversity walk is our monthly Nature documentation walk in the Fells with Bill & Joe on Feb 27th! They are great opportunities to learn about our local fauna, flora, and their seasonal cycles while recording critical data to help science and our communities protect our urban natural habitats. Space is limited for all our events and we are asking our audience to follow a Register-and-commit (or cancel when you know you can't come). 🎟️ > here. 

• Also on the EwA calendar this week: EwA's Nature Virtual Hour | Tuesdays at noon (🎟️  webinar registration) » A great opportunity to gather as a community and share our nature stories and our favorite week's sightings. Don't miss it! 

 

■ EwA Fieldwork (& Resources)

While our phenology recording is sparse as flora and fauna slowed down, our biodiversity and habitat documentation fieldwork is as healthy as ever thanks to our group of core citizen scientists who simply rock! 🗺️ EwA Sites Map | 🌱  Site Protocols and Guides - Field Rosters - Field Notes > All here! | ℹ️  More About EwA Citizen Science Program » here

To all of you: Stay healthy!

Any questions❓ Don't be shy. Just email me or reply to this thread.

Thanks and Have a great week! - Claire

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Photo: White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus | iNaturalist record © Bill MacIndewar