

Cleaning Out Wood Duck Boxes
The Center is lucky enough to have a few duck "experts" on its roster. A couple of these people are Jeff Bosworth and Marty Bentley. Two...


Please Stop the Balloon Pollution
Each year we walk our beautiful trails throughout the Center, and each year we find garbage. For us, it is usually old garbage - bullet...


Quiet in the Winter
When winter comes around, forcing us indoors, most of us start to get antsy and find ourselves getting annoyed at the littlest of things....


Late Season Mother Nature
As any WNYer will tell you, early or late season snowfall can have a devastating effect on everything it touches. This is mostly due to...


Reflections of Nature
Nothing much to say here. The pictures and title do all the talking...


A Creek Walk with a Surprise
There's nothing that hits you more in the "feels" than a nature surprise. Something that you've never witnessed. Something that stops you...


A Wintery Walk
Beaver markings, bald eagles, broken dams, large old white pines...you never know what a simple Winter Walk will reveal at Zaepfel.


Great Blue Heron Rookery
Back in January of 2017, while out searching for the ever elusive bald eagle nests, we stumbled upon a rookery. At first we thought we...