Whether or not you think they’re ‘cute’, they’re definitely ‘coot’! While sampling at pHake Lake, my students and I spotted two sets of American Coot (Fulica americana) chicks. Here are some photos: According to “All About Birds“, the downy young with their bald red heads are alert and ready to leave the nest within 6 […]
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Three new insect families
Posted in News, Sightings, Web Updates on Apr 20th, 2011
Some recent insect photography expeditions have turned up a number of new additions for our BFS Invert List. We have yet to sort through all our photos, but we have so far turned up representatives of three new insect families – Stratiomyidae (Soldier Flies), Chrysopidae (Green Lacewings), and Melyridae (Soft-winged Flower Beetles). Soldier Flies (Stratiomyidae) […]
Talking Trash
Posted in News on Mar 29th, 2011
Last Sunday, the Students for the BFS pitched in for a trash pickup at the BFS. Unfortunately some areas of the BFS have quite a lot of trash. Before the field station was fenced, some locals dumped trash on the grounds — in fact, I’ve been told that the Claremont Colleges used the area for […]
Recent additions to the BFS invert list
Posted in News, Sightings, Web Updates on Mar 27th, 2011
We have nine new additions to the BFS invert list: Dactylopius sp. (Cochineal) Our first addition is an insect that any casual observer might notice at the BFS, but it had somehow been overlooked in our list making – Cochineal (Dactylopius sp.) – that white cottony stuff on Opuntia sp. cacti (Prickly-Pear or Indian-Fig): Dactylopius […]
Welcome our new Interim Manager!
Posted in News on Mar 10th, 2011
We are very excited to announce that we have a new Interim Manager for the BFS — Dr. Jennifer Gee. Dr. Gee is exceptionally well qualified for this position, as you can see from the official CUC News Release. She is an evolutionary biologist and field ecologist, who did her Ph.D. work with Dr. Rosemary […]
A late winter storm
Posted in News on Mar 5th, 2011
A unusual late winter storm and cold front swooped into Southern California last Saturday. Although forecasters predicted that snow might fall as low as 1,000 feet, no snow fell at the BFS. We did, however, get some nice wintry photos:
Two new tiny inverts
Posted in News, Sightings, Web Updates on Jan 28th, 2011
We’ve added two new tiny cuties (at least we think they’re cute!) to our BFS Invert List. Harsi Parker and I spotted these at the BFS on January 16. (To be truthful, Harsi did all the spotting, photographing, and identifying. I held things for photographs.) We found the first in a Coast Live Oak along […]
Peregrine Falcon added to BFS Bird List
Posted in News, Sightings, Web Updates on Jan 17th, 2011
Prof. Cathy McFadden and Paul Clarke recorded a new species at BFS this morning. They spotted “a Peregrine Falcon rapidly leaving the east field with a California Towhee in its talons and a very upset Cooper’s Hawk hot on its tail!” The Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) was previously on both the Federal and California Endangered […]
BFS Interim Manager Position now open
Posted in News on Jan 8th, 2011
The opening for the Bernard Field Station Interim Manager has just been posted by CUC Human Resources. The Interim Manager will coordinate field station use, maintain facilities and equipment, keep records, monitor the habitat, and supervise student employees and users. This is an interim position and employment will run from the date of hire until […]
BFS goes to SSCUR
Posted in News on Nov 26th, 2010
On Saturday, November 20, two Harvey Mudd junior Mathematical Biology majors, Sung Woo (Simeon) Koh and Stephanie Levins, presented their BFS-related research at the 2010 Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research (SCCUR), held at Pepperdine University in Malibu. Intrigued by the rarity and patchy distribution of Lecanora munzii, a lichen species discovered at the BFS, […]