8 November 2009

Thanks to everyone who has been visiting the Mon@rch Nature Blog over the past week! All your views have jumped my ranking to number 12 on the Nature Blog Network . . . YES Twelve!!
Thanks everyone and the photo below is what helped everyone stumbleupon me . . . . etc. . . to get all these views to my site!
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31 October 2009

Northern Saw-whet Owl
Happy Halloween Everyone! It has been a decent owl banding season this year!
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8 October 2009

Monarch Butterfly
Allegany State Park had many Monarch butterflies passing through the area today. I counted a good dozen while sitting in the truck today! Many more were observed following the roads moving in a southern direction!
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4 October 2009

Mourning Cloak on my hand!
Sometimes they let me pick them up . . . sometimes they fly away!
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3 October 2009

Baby Eastern Skunk running away!
This is a few photos of a baby skunk that was wondering around this summer!
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2 October 2009

By Young Naturalist C
Apples
Flowering in the spring
In summer, ripe apples come
Red and delicious
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30 September 2009

Rounding Up the Geese on the Lake
I had an opportunity to assist with some banding of Canada Goose this summer. I was amazed at the number of people required in banding these guys. People were first used to help direct them to the pen and then the masses of people would then help in quickly band the birds . . . then they would be released. For sure an experience that I will remember for the rest of my life!
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29 September 2009

Sniff Sniff
Many times people bring me the strangest things for a number of reasons . . . 1) to help identify . . . 2) they are injured and needs to be rehabilitated or 3) they have no clue what to do with it! Late last spring/early summer someone had brought me this cute Meadow Vole because they found it stuck in the dog food container. I held onto it for a short time (to capture a few pictures and observe) before releasing it in the back yard!! These are just a few of the photos that I captured!
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27 September 2009

Double-crested Cormorant
While out on the pontoon boat we saw a few things flying along Chautauqua Lake.
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