This little guy or gal got trapped in our greenhouse overnight. Released it this morning and provided a refreshing peanut snack. I'd estimate this squirrel (eastern gray squirrel = Sciurus carolinensis) to be about 2 months old.

My favorite flowers are out on campus! Spice bush has one of the nicest fragrances!

A beautiful day to see some waterfalls on the Ausable River and dangle our feet in the water after a nice hike. This is a great swimming hole when the water is warmer but boy was it chilly today! Check it out this summer, head out Route 86 toward Wilmington and you'll see the parking spot on your left about 2 miles outside Wilmington.

A lovely spring evening to be outside a bit.

The flowering trees that encircle the Hepburn/Carnegie circle are starting to bloom! Soon all of them will be attracting both people and insects! Also, the pine trees have the cutest baby pine cones this time of year! And better yet, the vines have their leaves out on Sykes!!! And lastly, there was a silly looking tree with buds all over it's trunk. We may have skipped spring weather but now we have some spring plant life!

Can you find the snake in this picture? I almost stepped in him as he was sunning in the middle of a trail. I believe it is a garter snake

Beautiful spring morning; saw this beaver looking at his reflection and the trees reflected as well. The flower is a recurved trillium (Trilium recurvatum).

Beautiful spring day. A pair of loons taking off from the pond.

On Saturday April 27th Nature Up North led a hike out at Wolf Lake State forest. We had a small group but it was a great hike. The day was overcast but warm and we found out quickly that the black flies have made their spring return to the North Country! We made our first stop at an amazing beaver dam about 1.5 miles into the hike where we paused to have a quick lunch (in between swatting black flies). We heard a pileated woodpecker and northern flicker while we were stopped, and saw a heron.