Catskill Nature
Enjoy images tagged with #catskillnature. Right now most images are by lovely @catskillnature.
For 10 years I’ve been trying to capture black bears wallowing in wetlands on camera traps. I ended up with a lot of deer and a few bears doing other activities. Today I was surprised and pleased to get pics of bears using a small wallow in a small peat wetland in the high peaks. Bears utilize open water as wallowing tubs to escape insects and to cool off. They keep the water clear of Sphagnum moss carpets and in doing so, provide habitat for amphibians, aquatic insects, and hydrophytic plants. Although peat lands like this aren’t the only wetland type bears use to wallow, the soft, deep organic soil and high water table allow them to easily dig out their tubs. You can see that there are two bears that used the wallow. The bear captured at night appears to be a young bear, perhaps three years old. The other bear is a male, or boar, and is substantially larger. Boars can be distinguished by a light brown and broad muzzle. The males often get very large and their heads outsize their ears. You can see that on the last bear pic. Black bears, like grizzlies are also territorial, so it’s interesting to see a smaller bear attracted to a small wetland that is also visited by such a chonker boar. .
Tiffany Runge (Watershed Technician, Ulster County Soil & Conservation District) and Winston Gedicks (Watershed Corporation Corps, UC Community College)
This repost from @rachelmarcohavens really captures the September feeling in the Catskills
Not fair.
Born in the Catskills, Mexico-bound 🇲🇽
Beloved pond
Little Beaver Kill at the bottom of Jessica's property, with healthy floodplain on both sides for the water to meander around.
Downstream Little Beaver Kill. The large boulder on left is an erratic, carried and deposited by glacier.
Last day of Little Beaver Kill stream assessment, conducted by Ulster County Soil & Water Conservation District and Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County
Oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus)
Late July Sunday afternoon
View from Overlook Mountain
Mist rising from the road
Yankeetown Pond at sunset Friday
Mushroom walk with catskillfungi today! Especially fond of this #turkeytail
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Between the storms-- cooking and chatting and hiking and swimming-- at North Lake. #146 #catskillmountains #momcamp
Happy Monday! Catch a ride with us and enjoy the last days of summer in the Catskills
Art can be found anywhere. As a real estate agent I’m privileged to explore properties all over the Catskills. #catskills #realestateagent #catskillhome #catskillcabins #catskillnature #landscapes #secondhomes #vacationhomes #oldbarns #catskillphotos #escapebrooklyn
it’s may be fall, but there are still some flowers around! 👍🏻🌸 #flowerstagram #flowers #fall #fallphotoshoot #fallphotography #naturephotography #naturephotoshoot #natureatitsfinest #catskillsmountains #catskills #ny #nynature #catskillnature #photography #photographer #photooftheday #pic #colorful #iphone #shotoniphone #iphone8plus #iphoneography
Just green, green and more green 🌳☘️💚
~ When summer flowers bloom ~
The Monarch Butterfly has always been 1 of my favorite insects; not only because of its amazing metamorphosis but it takes part in one of the the most incredible migrations in the animal kingdom every Spring & Fall
This view though✨🥂
Sometimes I take pretty pictures too.
Winter Clove
The pete rafts (layers of organic matter that get detached from the pond floor and float to the surface like small islands) are all but gone. Cool temperature causes them to sink. Looks like we are in for smooth skating if the temperature drops down.
Bears. Peats. Battelstar Galatica.
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Fresh and no bugs.
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1 of the other fascinating things about this insect is that the monarchs that migrate south to Mexico in the Fall are not the same generation that arrives back north the following Spring
Many thanks to our Catskill neighbors Laurie & Dave for planting the milkweed so we could bear witness to this glorious creature in all its forms
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After the rain
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