What's Your Nature?

Become a Nature Up North explorer to share your encounters with wild things and wild places in New York's North Country. Post your wildlife sightings, landscape shots, photos from your outings, and even your organization's events!

Encounters

Boundary

Ice formations

I brought my camera out on a short trip to the lower lake dam, as it had been one of the few spot


Snowshoe Hare tracks on Azure

Did a quick snowshoe up Azure Mountain and found a bunch of snowshoe hare tracks.


Snow on top of a bunch of small berries handing from a tree branch. In the background is a stone building.

Campus looked very pretty the day after a lot of snow fell!


Insect caught in iced over spider web

We looked out the window and saw small spider web that had grown ice crystals on it over night.


Boat on Ice

An uncle and I were attempting to break ice out to an island for duck hunting the next morning.


Cedar Waxwing on a frosty foggy morning

It was a frosty and foggy morning when I spotted a group of cedar waxwings up high in the branche


River Otter

There is always something to see here, sometimes it is difficult to get chores done.


Sky showing colors above a river

I walked the yard again last night during the Aurora and unfortunately as the light display becam


Evening Grosbeak

I heard the flight calls of evening grosbeaks and started walking towards the sound.


Red and green colored northern lights in the sky.

The sky put on a brilliant show tonight!


Great Horned Owl

I heard crows calling and went outside with my camera hoping there was a good reason for their co


Great Horned Owl

I heard a mob of crows carrying on in the woods.


A group of Rusty Blackbirds are gathered in a tree with bright red/orange leaves.

For World Migratory Bird Day this October (and also the eBird Big Day), SLU Birders took a trip t


vertical frame of orange-leaved trees and green pine trees contrasting.

The SLU Birders club went out on the Sandbanks trail for a relaxing fall birding walk.


Tree Swallow stretches his wings

I spotted this beautiful tree swallow stretching his wings while guarding the nest box in our veg


Stoat flies while chasing a chipmunk

I was in my garden when a chipmunk ran over my feet! It was being chased by this stoat.


Racoon enjoying late summer apples

I heard a rustling in the fruit trees and looked over to find a pair of young racoons eating appl


Doe and redwing blackbird

I was on my morning walk when I happened upon this encounter between a doe and a pair of redwinge


Doe and red winged blackbird

This doe was walking through the field with her fawn when she stumbled on a red winged blackbird


Ruby Crowned Kinglet

On my morning walk I heard the sounds of a familiar bird in the fruit trees.