What's Your Nature?

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Encounters

Boundary

Turkey trotting by

Snow Geese

A small stonefly - dark brown/black with obvious wing veins and long antennae

iNaturalist identified this as a "Winter Stonefly," there have been a bunch on my porch.


Saw some tracks on the St. Lawrence University campus today. Not sure what they were, maybe a raccoon?

Saw some tracks in the snow, not sure what they were, maybe a raccoon?


Owl with shadow

Owl was soaking up the sun.


Winter Walk

Went for a walk while it snow!! Very peaceful


A picture of 2 skiers on Titus mountain, lower side

My first time skiing at Titus was so much fun!


Cardinal and woodpecker meeting at the feeder

Blue Jay sitting proud in backyard.

It was a beautiful afternoon just after a snow storm when a few Blue Jays fluttered about in the


Ice covered trees

Beautiful sunny and cold January day


Cardinals in iced tree

A little icing to start the year


Owl

Beautiful Barred Owl was sitting on the edge of the wooded area.


Bees nest in a tree

The cutest cluster of brown and white mushrooms

Had a beautiful hike up Goodman Mountain one Sunday morning, the leaves were all shades of green,


Mushroom on tree

Peak weekend, decided to go hiking with a few friends, the high peaks were too crowded with hiker


Bright green bee with little red mites on abdomen

This sweat bee seemed to have some sort of mites bothering it, not sure if it’s the same mite tha


A good sized frog

Not much to say except for this fella was big and he was NOT bothered by us


Turtle mostly black with a little red striping visible on leg

Just spotted this fella out for an afternoon stroll


Giant water bug with eggs on back!

Super cool find at Conservation Field Day at Indian Creek Nature Center - a male giant water bug