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!
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.
Lampson Falls Moss Walk
Join Nature Up North Environmental Education Intern Josie Dittman for a walk to Lampson Falls about local moss and lichen! These organisms are much more important than they may first appear, and help form the base of the larger ecosystems we so often get to enjoy.
Starting at 2pm, we'll set a leisurely pace to Lampson Falls while discussing the difference between moss and lichen, where we expect to find them growing, and the roles that each play in our broader ecosystem..
Fall Trail Workday at ICNC
Join INCN Board members for a workday to help clean up the Nature Center from summer storms and get it ready for the winter. Tools will be supplied, or you can bring your own. There is always plenty of work for all!
Rain Date is Sunday, October 26th
How Indian Creek Nature Center & Its Critters Transition from Fall to Winter
Join Clarkson University Honors Students as they lead a guided walk and discuss how the natural environment at ICNC is transforming around us. Why do leaves change color in the fall? Where do all the animals go? What about the dragonflies? Come find out! Meet at ICNC's main entrance parking lot at 11am. Wear shoes appropriate for walking through the woods on (potentially muddy) trails.
Braving the Cold: Meet our Local Overwintering Birds
Come to the Indian Creek Nature Center for a birding session focused on the birds we expect to see all winter long, and a quick craft at the end!
Led by Nature Up North Environmental Education Intern Emma Rubin, this birding walk will last about an hour along a nature trail (TBD) at Indian Creek Nature Center. After our walk, we'll gather at the pavilion to create suet bird feeders to bring home and help each of our backyard birds find the food they need to prepare for winter.
Brilliant Fall Leaves mean Fairies are Here to Stay!
Thimble and Blossom are back on North Country Trails this fall! While they're waiting to migrate south for warmer weather each winter, Thimble and Blossom stop over for a couple of months on our trails to enjoy the fall foliage, tuck in the bears for hibernation, and to answer all of your nature questions! They stopped by Nature Up North to tell us how excited they are to see who can find their homes and to deliver their clues. Visit one of the trails below and follow their clues to find where Thimble and Blossom live!