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!
Campfire Jam with Barb Heller
Nature Up North and TAUNY invite you to another night of music and fun around the fire! Bring your guitar, your friends, and family for a night of sing/play-along with NCPR's Barb Heller. We'll be playing and singing traditional campfire songs with a few requests added. No musical expertise required, just 4 or 5 basic chords will do it. Barb will guide you through the chord changes, so just come and have a good time. Not interested in playing? Just come to sing or listen! This event is free and open to the public. Come a few minutes early if you need help tuning up.
Evening Paddle
Enjoy the evening on the water and join nature Up North for a paddle down the Grasse. At 6:30pm, meet at the Little River Boat Launch on outer Park Street, just past St. Lawrence University campus. You can bring your own boat, or borrow a canoe or kayak from us!
RSVP at natureupnorth@gmail.com to reserve a canoe or kayak.
Wonderful Turnout for the Mushroom Workshop!
Claire Burkum brought mushrooms, a wealth of knowledge, and a whole lot of energy to Wachtmeister Field Station for a mushroom workshop this Saturday. 25 people got out in the woods to do some mushroom hunting, and Claire taught about the anatomy of mushrooms, as well as some methods of identifying fungus. There are thousands upon thousands of fungi in the North Country alone, so there are plenty of specimens to practice identifying!
Goldenrod Crab Spider
I was walking in my fields and noticed this Goldenrod Crab Spider hunting on a black-eyed susan.
Lighthouse Point , Ogdensburg , NY
great sunset on the St Lawrence River
Wildflower Drawing Workshop
The rain clouds parted enough for a beautiful afternoon of wildflower drawing for us at Wachtmeister Field Station in Canton, NY. After leaning how to set up a nature journal and some tips and tricks on wildflower drawing, we all got outside to do our sketching.
Through the trees
I noticed this deer in through the trees. I didn't realize it was a buck until I took the pic.