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!
Morning Stretches
I spotted this beautiful tree swallow stretching his wings while guarding the nest box in our vegetable garden.
Flying Stoat!
I was in my garden when a chipmunk ran over my feet! It was being chased by this stoat. I followed the chase along the garden fence and captured this still of a stoat in flight!
Apple Bandit!
I heard a rustling in the fruit trees and looked over to find a pair of young racoons eating apples. They ate apples until they fell asleep in each others arms.
Doe and redwing blackbird
I was on my morning walk when I happened upon this encounter between a doe and a pair of redwinged blackbirds.
The doe and the redwinged blackbirds
This doe was walking through the field with her fawn when she stumbled on a red winged blackbird nest.
Ornitherapy & the Wellness Benefits of Nature
On October 30th, we will welcome Holly Merker to campus for a public lecture at 7:00 pm in Winston (lower level of Student Center)
Holly Merker is a professional birding guide, award-winning author, podcaster, and lecturer who provides nature-based wellness programs for people of all ages. Combining backgrounds in art therapy, nature and forest therapy, wellness counseling, mindfulness mentoring, and bird identification, she is a global advocate for the practice of Mindful Birding.
Ruby Crowned Kinglet
On my morning walk I heard the sounds of a familiar bird in the fruit trees. I often hear these cute birds, but rarely do they pause for a photo. It was my lucky day! This little Ruby Crowned Kinglet was happy to pose
Raccoons
Driving home and saw seven of these little guys playing in the road.
Rascals
Driving home and seven raccoons were playing in the road so I stopped and watched them for a while. I rolled my window down and it sounded like they were scolding me for interrupting their playtime! Then they scurried up the nearest tree.