Barred Owl sleeping. Photos taken while working in Chateaugay, NY.

Mergansers feeding on a pond in West Pierrepont.

Amazing

It was a very foggy morning, when the sun burst out brightly from behind the mountains.

We were preparing the General Biology TAs for next week's aquatic lab where we have our students use a Van Doren sampler, a zooplankton net, and a dissolved oxygen probe in lab to collect ecological data to compare SLU's artificial wetland and a nearby beaver pond (which is a little further away, on the Kip Tract).

I have been taking photos of some of activities that GB does in lab, but I like to capture the wildlife and biodiversity as well for future GB lectures (and for some photography practice, too!).

I went for a walk to the beaver pond on the Kip Track. It was surprisingly cool after all this hot weather we've been having, and very misty. I saw some Canadian geese out in the mist, and heard a lot of other birds, including some chickadees. I saw some cool mushrooms on the trail in.

It was a great night to do some star gazing. The sky was clear and the stars were brilliant, take a blanket and enjoy the view!

I was at the pond on the south side of the St. Lawrence campus looking for frogs. I didn't see any, though I think I heard one or two slip into the water. I saw this preying mantis hanging out on a cattail about a foot from the water's edge.