Puente Hills Nature

I bet you’re thinking I’m going to be talking about the butterflies fluttering to and from the wildflowers in the Hills this time of year. B...

As we all spend this Sunday paying tribute to our mothers, it is also a good time to appreciate all of the wild mothers that help to raise t...

The result of all of that “love in the air” (see blog posting from February 25, 2009) is chicks which have hatched and are growing fast! I ...

While many people have heard of our resident threatened species, the coastal California gnatcatcher, we have an endangered species that is a...

OK – I know I already talked a little about snakes in my last blog, but given the frequency of snake observations over the last few weeks I ...

The first day of spring was last week, and the wildflowers are putting on a great show in the hills. Although the most commonly noticed wild...

Poison oak seems like one of the hardest plants to identify, especially to those who are not botanically-inclined. But it seems like it is t...