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Night Sky Viewing at Indian Creek Nature Center
With days shortening and weather starting to chill, now is the time to view the stars above the Indian Creek Nature Center! Join Ben Roulston, an astronomer from Clarkson's Reynolds Observatory for a short walk to the observation tower at Indian Creek and an evening of viewing the moon, stars, nebulae, and more! In order to ensure proper viewing conditions, this event is slotted to take place on one night between October 3rd (Friday) and October 9th (Thursday). The decision on which day the event will occur will be made the day of.
Seed Saving Class and Seed Collection
Join Mary-Ann Cateforis (and me) at Cornell Cooperative Extension next Monday 2-3:30 for a hands-on class about saving seeds from native plants! We'll collect some from the pollinator garden on site and Mary-Ann will bring more from her garden, generously sharing MANY types of seed with class members once we have prepared them for storage. Registration is required: https://stlawrence.cce.cornell.edu/events/2025/09/29/collecting-and-sav…
A short stop at Indian Creek.
A quick walk from the parking lot to the lean-to, the ponds were extremely low level.
In fact the rabbit was standing where it's normally water at first pond.
We saw quite a few Northern Harrier, a few thousand red-winged blackbirds, the frogs were still out as were turtles, a muskrat was collecting lily pads for it's den and various fly catchers were around.
It was another terrific visit.