What's Your Nature?

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Encounters

Boundary

Smiling Loon Trout Lake

We set out in our canoe hoping to see loons.


Loon with Breakfast

We set out on our canoe at Trout Lake with the hopes of spotting a loon and we were not disappoin


Close up image of an American Giant Millipede crawling up a tree trunk

Yesterday I stumbled upon this stunning Narceus americanus, or American Giant Millipede.


A photo of a banded harvestman crawling on the side of a wooden table

This funky little arachnid skittered across my hand as I was having my lunch today!


This young skunk could not resist stopping to smell the flowers

As I was working in my garden I noticed this young skunk digging for food around another bed of f


Rare White Hummingbird sipping nectar from monarda

This beautiful nearly all white ruby throated hummingbird appeared in my garden for the first tim


A small yellow bird perches on a stick with blue sky in the background.

I saw this cute Northern Yellow Warbler at the observation deck at Indian Creek Nature Center!


A downy woodpecker perches on the side of a branch.

I saw this Downy Woodpecker while on a birding walk looking for spring migrants.


Leucistic Ruby Throated Hummingbird

I thought I saw a ghost! My first sighting of this rare bird here on Black Lake. 


Cedar Waxwing on pickerel weed

I was on the dock when I heard the sweet sounds of the cedar waxwings.


Leucistic ruby throated hummingbird

I thought I was seeing things when this flash of white flew past me.


Moth against tree bark

This is NOT just tree bark.

I found it.

Now YOU find it.


Parsnip Webworm

Spotted a parsnip webworm crawling on top of wild parsnip at Indian Creek Nature Center!


During a bird-watching walk we encountered this porcupine up in a grove of small trees, munching away.

During a bird-watching walk we encountered this porcupine up in a grove of small trees, munching


Small Crayfish against Forested Ground

It was a rainy day the other day, so I decided to take a walk to the creek and see how the water


toad

As part of our amphibian-themed campfire, we were able to catch this American toad on the Kip Tra


deer

This white-tailed deer was outside of Johnson Science Hall!


Red Headed Woodpecker in plum tree

I was on my porch when I spotted this beauty in a plum tree.


squirrel