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Chuck [Wordless Wednesday]

Chuck
Chuck

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Posted by  |  10 November 2009 | Categories: Flickr, Mammals, Nature, photography | Tags: , , | 10 Comments

Number 12 on Nature Blog Network

NBN Number 12

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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Posted by  |  8 November 2009 | Categories: Nature | Tags: , , , , | 9 Comments

Happy Halloween

Northern Saw-whet Owl
Northern Saw-whet Owl

Happy Halloween Everyone! It has been a decent owl banding season this year!
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Posted by  |  31 October 2009 | Categories: Bird Banding, Birds, Flickr, Nature, Owls, photography | Tags: , | 28 Comments

Witch-hazel

Witch-hazel in flower!
My Favorite Tree Flower

Witch-hazel (H. virginiana)
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Posted by  |  13 October 2009 | Categories: Flickr, Nature, photography | Tags: , | 6 Comments

Monarch Movement (love this time of the year)

Monarch
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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Posted by  |  8 October 2009 | Categories: Allegany State Park, Butterflies, Flickr, migration, Nature, photography | 16 Comments

Mourning Cloak

Mourning Cloak
Mourning Cloak on my hand!

Sometimes they let me pick them up . . . sometimes they fly away!
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Posted by  |  4 October 2009 | Categories: bugs, Butterflies, Flickr, Nature, photography | 10 Comments

Baby Skunk

Baby Skunk
Baby Eastern Skunk running away!

This is a few photos of a baby skunk that was wondering around this summer!
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Posted by  |  3 October 2009 | Categories: Allegany State Park, Flickr, Mammals, Nature, photography | Tags: , | 11 Comments

Nature Haikus – Apples

Apples at the Apple Fest

By Young Naturalist C

Apples
Flowering in the spring
In summer, ripe apples come
Red and delicious
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Posted by  |  2 October 2009 | Categories: Birds, Flickr, Kids, Nature | Tags: , , | 3 Comments

Canada Goose Banding

Canada Goose Round Up 1
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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Posted by  |  30 September 2009 | Categories: Allegany State Park, Bird Banding, Birds, Flickr, Nature, Ornithology, photography, Science | Tags: | 6 Comments

Meadow Vole

Meadow Vole Nose
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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Posted by  |  29 September 2009 | Categories: Flickr, Mammals, Nature, photography | Tags: | 9 Comments