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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!
On the road again
She just stood and watched me slowly get closer and closer to her.
Peek-a-boo!
Ran in front of my car but I was going slow enough and saw her in advance.
Baby Snapping Turtles
A snapping turtle nest opened up next to the Wachtmeister Field Station last week. If you came to any of our suimmer campfires we probaby took a moment to share this nest with you. Last summer, there were a few nests that were dug up or hatched by the end of the year. This time around the nest lasted until mid-September, and a dozen or more babies made it out.
Pumpkin Carving at Phantoms in the Park
Nature Up North is teaming up with Grasse River Heritage to host its second year of pumpkin carving in Canton! This year will be a little different than last year.
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.