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!

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Partridge

Spotted this little beauty in my backyard while hiking my dog 


Dawn

I walk my dog every morning at 4:30am and this is my view along the way. 


Marina Sunset

Hummingbird on hyacinth bean vine

This little beauty showed up while I was sipping coffee on our porch.


This American Goldfinch posed for me on this red sunflower in my garden

I always have one of my cameras handy while I am in the garden.


I always have my camera with me while I am out in the garden.


This little one was running along the stone row

I was heading out to the garden when I heard the birds sounding the alert.


Jack in the pulpit

Dogs walking on trail

Oh deer

Kayaking down the Grasse River at dusk. 


Big pine in wanakena

Asian lady beetle on a flower

This photo depicts an Asian lady beetle, a species similar in looks to a ladybug but very invasiv


Close Call

Bee in flower

white and brown fungi in hand

We had so much fun learning about fungi!


Reflection

Yellow and black bee looking fly on a piece of paper

Visited by a bumblebee robber fly at the canton farmers market!


Bright green leaf with the sun behind it

I just love the way the sun shines through this leaf and you can see all of its intricate veins,


Orangish fungi growing on the dark, damp bark of a tree

A rainy walk to Lampson Falls to build fairy houses, collecting material along the way, led to th


Big brown beetle on brown porch

Seek identified this as a “Hermit Flower Beetle” he was the size of a half dollar, maybe a bit bi