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!

Encounters

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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


A mostly green maple tree with a few red leaves

Enjoyed a nice morning walk on the SLU XC trails, but am surprised to see some leaves already tur


Osprey perched on a power line

I work as a Watercraft Inspection Steward to manage invasive species and, when the boat traffic i


Tulip

Groundhog

Buddy was zoomin from tunnel to tunnel


The bright orange of a Baltimore oriole is partly camouflaged by the yellow and orange blossoms on a spring tree

Birding walk led by Tom Langen and the St.


Very green leaves and a few branches of a sugar maple

So exciting to see the new, bright green leaves on these sugar and Norway maples on SLU campus.


Small bee with lots of pollen on its hind legs rest on the white pages of a book.

This little bee kept coming back and landing on my book and my sweater while I was outside.


3 tiny copepods caught in a net, one of which has egg clusters!

Scott and I sampled the lake today and towed a zooplankton net behind the boat near Raspberry Isl


Northern Flicker

Mergansers