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Campfire: Fire-Making with Len Mackey
Join us to celebrate summer with our first community campfire! You’re invited to help light the fire using traditional fire-starting methods. Guest Len Mackey will be joining us for an interactive evening learning the Earth's oldest ways of making fire with hand or bow drill.
Fox in the farmhouse
Although this old farmhouse has long been uninhabited by people, it has been home to several litters of red fox over the past few years.
Evening along the Oswegatchie
Other than the hungry mosquitos, it was a nice evening to walk along the Oswegatchie River in Edwards.
Birds and Trillium at Jamestown Falls
Thought we'd stick close to car, so chose Jamestown Falls for Sunday venture. Always a pleasure to hear a warbler, great to actually get an identifiable picture!
Birds, Birds, Birds
Hiking at Robert Moses State Park and saw orioles, a scarlet tanager, and this blackburnian warbler in our travels. A great day for birding.
Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata)
Alliaria petiolata or commonly known as Garlic Mustard, found on the Cross Country trail at SUNY Canton. Located under a large tree, the plant was small but easy to identify when looking out for it.
Invasive Phragmites at St. Lawrence University, Canton NY
I found Invasive Phragmites by the artificial pond on St. Lawrence University's campus. Invasive Phragmites is a tall terrestrial plant that usually grows in clusters near marshes. It can be identified from native phragmites by its height, and the color of its stem base. This invasive phragmites was found during the spring and is a tan color with a seed/flowering head. Being that it is spring, most of the phragmites plants were knocked over and dead with the exception of these few phragmites stems.
Phragmites
There was a cluster of phragmites located behind the E.J. Noble medical building bordering the St. Lawrence University golf course.