Hot Hot June 7th Horsham Day

Everyone was hot today as we were setting up in Kohler Park for the annual Horsham Day event.
We had two spaces with tents, enviroscape, display, maps and information, and birdhouse kits.

Passers by enjoyed the enviroscape and getting squirted with the rain sprays to ward off the heat for a moment.

Big thanks to all of the members who showed up today in the heat to work the tent, and especially Margaret - the event chair.

Horsham Day 2008

Come visit us at Horsham Day on June 7th. We will be out with the enviroscape, and with our
birdhouse kits. We will also be raffling off a few things. Learn more about how you can make
your life greener.

Nature in our watershed

Here is a photo of a robins nest in a bush outside of my house. There are three eggs in the nest and the mother robin is sitting on them now. They should hatch soon. Nature is a part of our watershed.

Kohler Park - wild flowers

1. Spring beauties (Claytonia virginica)

• Flowers from February - May.

Habitat - Dry open woods, glades, slopes, prairies, low woods.
Origin - Native to U.S.

• Earliest bloomers in spring. The flowering period is actually quite long for such an early plant. The plant is easy to ID in the field because of its distinctive flowers and its thin opposite cauline leaves.
  

Trout Lily (Erythronium americanum)
Common names for this eastern North American species include trout lily, American adder's tongue (a reference to the leaves) and dogtooth violet (a reference to the bulbs);

• Habitat: Moist woods and meadows
• Appearance: Yellow flower, blooming anywhere from March to May, atop a pair of purply-brown mottled leaves.

Geocaching

This morning, Marj, Sandy and I went geocaching in the Park Creek Watershed. We found two of the three we were looking for and got a bit muddy in the process. I ended up with a flat tire to boot. We had a good time and noticed a lot of trash. This gave me the idea to have a cache in - trash out event. I have contacted the Horsham Parks Department to find out a date that we could use the Limekiln entrance to Kohler Park for a clean up event that will not conflict with soccer games.

A Cache in Trash Out (CITO) event brings in geocachers who help clean up an area, and are rewarded by being able to locate several geocaches. I would also like to have some prizes for farthest away to attend, most trash collected, etc. . I plan on trying to contact local businesses to provide some type of sponsorships in either food, water or cache prizes.

If you are a business in the Horsham, Warrington, Montgomery Township area and are interested in providing a sponsorship of some sort, please email publicity@parkcreek.org

As this develops, more details will follow.

More Native Plant sales

May 3, Temple Ambler Campus plant sale at the greenhouses 10AM to 2PM on
Meetinghouse Rd Upper Dublin between Ft.Washington Ave and Butler Pike.

Also May 3, Neshaminy Manor plant sale at the Neshaminy Manor Center 1282
Almshouse Rd. Doylestown left off of 611 from 9AM to 1 PM rain or shine.

Native Plant Sale at Bowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve on 1635 River Rd. New
Hope, 2.5 miles south of New Hope Sat. and Sunday May 10 & 11 and 17& 18
10AM to 4PM.

Adopt a Park - Creek

As many of you are aware, several years ago we filled out the paperwork to adopt the creek in Kohler Park. Due to personnel changes, the township did not get our sign up at that time. I have been working with Mark Hudson of Horsham Township to get this process completed. Mark recently sent me a picture of what our sign will look like when it goes up in Kohler Park.
We are required to have 4 events in the Park that will benefit the creek each year.
I am arranging to have the Bat house that was donated to us, be used to fulfill one of these events.

This will help to reduce the amount of mosquitos in the area, thus helping out with the danger of West Nile Virus. This will count as one event. We have stream assessments that we will also do in the park. We are lucky to have Horsham Township as a partner.