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Encounters

These photos are from Nature Up North's first hike event of 2025, a snowshoe to Rainbow Falls.

These are photos shared with me by a community member, Blair Madore, who was snowshoeing the Kip

I was visiting the dike area at Upper Lower Lake WMA and very little was to be seen, but with the

We had a gorgeous 6" of wet snow last night and the groomed nordic trails on the SLU golf course

While driving around looking for birds with a friend, we got lucky and spotted this Barred Owl pe
With the Upper and Lower Lakes frozen over, the section of Oswegatchie bordering it has become a
A group of common merganser have made this section of the Oswegatchie their temporary home for th

With the fresh overnight snow, I saw a lot of bird activity on the front porch.

While out looking for amphibians I flipped over a log next to the trail.
An unusually warm spring gave me an opportunity to kayak when I would normally be snowshoeing.

A gloomy spring day hiking the trail from Wanakena to the Inlet.
A nice morning paddle from Eel Bay at the Minna Anthony Common Nature Center, through the Narrows