By Jenna Krebs, Irvine’s Animal Care Coordinator With the weather’s constant changes these past few weeks, many animals are out and on the move. Just as the animals become more active, so do people, and this means human-animal encounters become more prevalent. This morning an Irvine Board member brought me quite a surprise…inside of a… Read more »
Despite the weirdly warm weather we’ve been having over the past month, fall is in full swing and the first day of winter will soon be upon us. With the changing of the seasons comes the leaves–lots of them! For those of us with a yard, leaf clean up can be one of the most… Read more »
By the end of October, Irvine is hoping to welcome the newest member of the education animal family: one of the furry, warm blooded variety! This young opossum will be coming to live at the nature center because she has been human raised from a very young age. She was orphaned, along with her two… Read more »
It’s that time of year again, when natural life is springing back into motion! The warm weather has finally arrived, and many of us are becoming more active and enjoying the outdoors. The same goes for our wildlife friends—birds, squirrels, rabbits and many other native animals are busy building nests and raising their young. Sometimes… Read more »
Shocked would be an understatement when describing my wife after receiving a text from a neighbor here in Owings Mills; it seems that this resident of a development near Irvine Nature Center had seen two kits (young fox) in her yard and had started feeding them regularly. It is not uncommon to see fox in… Read more »
