What's Your Nature?

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Encounters

Boundary

Lampson Falls

Dew on web

Butterfly summer

Butterfly

Stone Valley waterfalls

Mergansar male taking off after hearing a call down the lake...

Enjoyed watching this shy male fish until we heard his mate calling from down the lake and off he


Panther Mt.

At just over 1.5 miles, this short trek is an easier mountain than most.


Round Lake Trail

A nice hike into Round Lake (Sabattis NY).


Wishes at sunset

Photo of the forest along the Kip trail

Beautiful, dappled sunlight captured on a cool, April evening on the Kip trail at St.


Part of a rainbow in a pink sky in a field, with a tree in the foreground

Beautiful sunsets beautiful place 


Red trilliums in the woods!

Saw a ton of these beautiful red trilliums on Cranberry Lake!


Blue cohosh in flower



 


a yellow and black garter snake sticking it's head up in a bunch of brown dead leaves

Saw the first garter snakes of the year this morning by our beaver pond. 


wood frog floating rear legs out in a murky pond by a dead leaf

Wood frogs are loud and proud in the vernal pools, even though they're still half covered in ice.


green plant with reddish outer leaves just barely emerging from mud

The area around the beaver pond has several spots where skunk cabbage is emerging.


dark color salamander on white cement sidewalk

Doing spring clean up in the yard at the Nicandri Nature Center and found our first salamander of


nice day outside

On a nature walk this afternoon outside of St. Lawrence University.


trees