This Week At Nixon Park 2025
This Week at Nixon Park - June 7-14
A warmer week than last. As the high temperatures reach the eighties for a couple of days in a row dragonfly nymphs are finally beginning to emerge after a cold, wet spring.
Clarke Green
The History of Anson B. Nixon Park
Waterworks
This is a chapter in an occasional series about the history of Anson B. Nixon Park. Previous entries At the Foot of the Mountains Landfill To Park Early Kennett Square villagers got their water from wells, cisterns, springs, or the Red Clay Creek. Individual households or groups of households were
This Week At Nixon Park 2025
This Week at Nixon Park - May 31-June 7
Sadly it appears that a predator of some description has snatched the eggs out of the Green heron nest (last week's look at the nest and eggs). I checked on the nest a number of times this week and did not see the Heron sitting, nor the eggs.
This Week At Nixon Park 2025
This Week at Nixon Park - May 23-30
After a long bleak winter of waiting, traversing vast migrations, and surviving daunting probabilities, the late May parade of life carries on despite unseasonable cold and wet. This week it's fledglings, nests full of eggs, the quiet work of incubation, feeding the nestlings, tiny turtles, fox kits, and
Nature
Eastern Box Turtle
This is the fifth and final species profile in the turtle series, here's the first entry that discusses things common to all the turtles at the park with links to the other profiles. I've only seen one eastern box turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina) at Nixon Park,
Turtles
Eastern Musk Turtle
The Eastern Musk Turtle (Sternotherus odoratus) basks in the sun less than other turtle species. While occasionally seen with other basking turtles, they are more typically found basking alone. This solitary basking behavior can make them somewhat difficult to spot within the park. Oddly enough they are very good climbers
This Week At Nixon Park 2025
This Week at Nixon Park May 16-23
Some rainy days this week, difficult conditions for getting decent pictures, but a few interesting takes none-the-less.
Turtles
Eastern Painted Turtle
This is the third species profile in the turtle series, here's the first entry that discusses things common to all the turtles at the park with links to the other profiles. Eastern Painted turtles (Chrysemys picta, picta), and Pond sliders and Red-eared sliders (both of the genus Trachemys)
Nature
Pond & Red-Eared Sliders
This is the second species profile in the turtle series, here's the first entry that discusses things common to all the turtles at the park with links to the other profiles. Pond sliders, Trachemys scripta, and subspecies the Red-eared slider, Trachemys scripta elegans are frequently seen basking on
Nature
Common Snapping Turtle
This is the first species profile in the turtle series, here's the first entry that discusses things common to all the turtles at the park with links to the other profiles. Most of the Common Snapping Turtles (Chelydra serpentina) I've spotted at the park were floating
Nature
Turtles
Turtles? Beyond the tale of Yertle and the race with the hare I did not know all that much. Studying the turtles I've observed in the park opened a fascinating world. This introduction covering things common to all the turtles will be followed by individual entries about each
This Week At Nixon Park 2025
This Week at Nixon Park - May 9-16
As of May 8th all of Chester County remained in a moderate drought, perhaps that will finally change with this week's rains. The rain cut into my time at the park this week a bit, but there's plenty to see this time of year.