The Nature Up North team had a great time fishing with the Massena Boys and Girls Club on the St. Lawrence River today. We caught some small yellow perch and also spotted a bowfin swimming and some Osprey flying overhead!

Kayaking through Fish Creek yesterday I saw movement along the shore, which at first I thought was someone pulling their kayak onto a carry over. At second glance, I realized that this was a Bald Eagle pulling apart a fish for lunch. I approached it slowly and tried to snap a few quick pictures but didn't want to disturb it. My guess is that this was a young eagle who had just matured because the head wasn't entirely white yet. You can still see a little brown streak along the side.

We caught a tadpole and lots of dragonflies yesterday with Norwood-Norfolk 3rd graders at Indian Creek Nature Center. We also found frogs, damselflies, leeches, and even a few catfish!

Enjoyed a beautiful evening kayaking 5 miles down the St. Lawrence with my son. We saw:
dozens of birds
two jumping fish
one row boat
one much faster boat
four golfers
one lovely sunset on the river...Summer in Northern NY is really nice!

Beautiful weather, great fishing - can't beat it! This fish fell off before we could get him on shore, but I will gladly take that over a gutted hook or any other injury that can happen during fishing.

This visit to the Wild Center was wonderful! These brown trout migrate to the ocean and return to the streams that they were born in to spawn. These fish are very popular in the Adirondacks for fly fishing. The Wild Center has so many different animals and plants to obverse and is truly an excellent museum.

This is a photo I took on September 22nd, 2013 of a brook trout I caught on a stonefly when I went fishing at my friends private fishing club in a very remote break-off section of the St. Regis River called Deer River.
Habitat Description: The habitat of the creek I was fishing consisted of a very wide and shallow creek. Although not visible in the photo, the water was moving extremely slow. As the photo was taken in the tail end of September, the water temperature that day could be described as only lukewarm.

I saw this fish swimming around with a turtle at the Wild Center, and snapped a shot while it was alone in the frame. I believe this is a lake trout, a freshwater fish with a long body, a forked tail and a squat head. This species is typically gray and covered with cream spots, which are faintly visible here. In the North, they reside in shallow lakes and rivers, and feed on mainly other fish but also insect larvae and plankton. Lake trout are commonly fished for sport and in the Adirondack region they are threatened by overfishing.