What's Your Nature?

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Encounters

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Hiding baby

This little crossed in front of me and then thought she was camouflaged enough. 


Butterflies and Raspberries

My mother used to love to pick berries.


Sunset on a lake

A really pretty sunset I captured during my stay at SUNY ESF’s field biology station at Cranberry


Porcupine in a tree

Found this little sleepy fella in a tree during my Ornithology lab :)


Picture of a beetle on my hand

Found this guy while walking outside. Appears to be some sort of Flat-headed Borer.


A black and grey salamander is revealed from under a rock.

During my first ever visit to the Catskills, I wandered through the woods to see what I could fin


Loon with breakfast

While canoeing on Trout Lake we encountered this adult common loon with a pumpkin seed sunfish.&n


Great Horned Owl

The crows and bluejays alerted me to the presence of this GHO just off the trail. 


A Northern Paper Wasp on a flower

A short walk in the yard led to a discovery of more than a dozen kinds of pollinators all visitin


Bog River Falls 1

I always enjoy a stop at Bog River Falls, and it is even better in autumn.


Massawepie Lake sunset

The sunset after the day's rains just kept getting better,


Lows Overlook from the Bog River

This trek is an annual favorite for me.


A doe stands on the side of the Remington Trail pathway.

While walking around one of the bends on the Remington Trail, we came across this calm deer grazi


Image of trees displaying early fall foliage at the edge of a pond

Enjoyed the vibrant fall foliage this morning after a pleasant hike up the Tooley Pond Mountain t


Young Bandit

While out on our dock on Black Lake, I saw this young bandit following his family through the wet


White Hummingbird with purple coneflower

This white hummingbird appeared in my garden the evening of 7/22 and hung around through 8/2.


A squirrel peeks through the rungs of a porch railing

Spotted Salamander in a tupperware container

Found my first Spotted Salamander while searching logs for amphibians this summer!


Walk watching the sunset

I was walking on the golf course with some of my friends at sunset, and we saw many frogs around!


A photo of a green Northern Leopard Frog hiding in a patch of clover

Spotted a few Northern Leopard Frogs on a walk down the Kip trail, but this one was kind enough t