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Belted Kingfisher Goes Hungry on Christmas Day4 Poems About A Belted Kingfisher
Four belted kingfisher poems about a bird who could not eat because Sligo Creek was filled with pollution from a water main break.
Christmas Brings Beauty, Fright: Metal-Laden Torrent Pouring Into Sligo Creek
Christmas brings joy on Sligo Creek but then a pollution emergency when a torrent of chlorinated, metal-laden water rushes into the creek.
Biking Sligo Creek and Writing – How One Fuels The Other
Yours truly hits the 10,000-mile mark on my current bike on a ride to Lake Artemesia.
Sligo Creek...
Stephen Davies: Photography and Persistence
Check out what Stephen Davies has to say about getting started in the worlds of birding and photography -- and why he loves Sligo Creek.
Plastic Pollution Kills Two Great Blue Herons Along Sligo Creek – We’re All Responsible
The best way to stop plastic pollution from killing our watersheds and ourselves is to to change our behavior and fight it at its source.
Fuzzy Brown Face – And Will I Get Eaten By A Giant Frog?
The sun is going down over Sligo Creek. Is that a beaver in the retention ponds, and will I get eaten by a giant frog?
Mama Goose 2021 Takes High-Risk Gamble on Sligo Creek
Won-ok and I head down to the University Boulevard stormwater retention ponds...
Happy New Year? No. Happy Heron Year!
Incredible luck greeted us for a second consecutive New Year's Day. Forget Happy New Year. Let's make it Happy Heron Year!