Pickerel frog (Rana palustris) You know spring is near when the male frogs start to croak for mates. We have been hearing chorus fro...

The third annual Rose Glen Literary Festival will be Saturday in Sevierville. Open to authors either from Sevier County or who have writte...

Dr. Louise Conrad with our now two-year-old opossum Time flies. And opossums age. But, then again, don't we all. The Ijams oposs...

Ijams annual Bluebird Box Workshop was last Saturday. Peg Beute reports that a total of 19 new nesting sites have been added to the Kno...

Albeit seems late in the season—since they normally bloom in November, the last plant to flower during the growing season—the witch haze...

It's official: the holidays are over. Every year people bring their castoff Christmas trees to Ijams to have them recycled. The firs...

Birding along Volunteer Landing: coots, gulls, ducks. Birding at Seven Islands in search of raptors produced more herons and sparrows...

Ijams 18th Annual Seed Swap got everyone at Ijams talking about their gardening plans for the new year. And all of those new old varieti...

Our WalkAbout trip to Hiwassee Wildlife Refuge yesterday turned up several sandhill cranes plus a wonderful view of a playful dogfight bet...

On an early walk this morning, Ijams educator Sarah Brobst found a bald eagle perched above the boat dock downstream from the b...

It's that time! Congratulations to the planners and producers of Wilderness Wildlife Week in Pigeon Forge. It's one week of...

It was cold, two days before Christmas with just enough time to squeeze in one final WalkAbout before the holiday break. Special thanks...

Logdeer welcome visitors to the nature center Once upon a time—and indeed, many of us still remember it—most holiday decorations were ma...

Ever-alert and hard-to-find woodland logdeers Ijams does not often have deer. Although they are routinely seen at Forks of the River W...

Sometimes, the thrill IS in the hunt. You may not find a lot but it's the camaraderie of the group that saves the day. So it was for...

"Two stuffed and mounted ivory-billed woodpeckers (one a male and one a female) finally found a forever home as a part of Ijams Nature ...

Flutter by. Flutter by. Even in early December you can find butterflies at Ijams. Especially if you plan a butterfly-themed Birthday Party...

Surprisingly, the Ten Mile Creek Greenway through the heart of west Knoxville can be a good place to find birds.  The Winter Birds WalkA...

Thanks to a generous grant from Green Mountain Coffee Roasters , schools in  Knox   County  can now participate in  Ijams   Nature   Cente...

AS the sun slipped below the horizon to the west and cold air moved in from the river to the north, the Ijams owl prowlers set out to find...

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