UP Nature Notes (Blog)
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Beauty and the Beast: Grass Pink and Crab Spider - UP Nature Notes, No. 21
July 20, 2024
Showy flowers attract insect pollinators and those pollinators attract predators and parasites, so nature photographers focusing on flowers often get images of more species than they were aiming for. While recently photographing the native bog orchid, Grass Pink, I was surprised by a crab spider that crawled around from the…
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Currant Events - UP Nature Notes, No. 20
July 11, 2024
Early July - As blueberries are starting to ripen, skunk currants (Ribes glandulosum) are at peak ripeness. True to their name, skunk currant fruits have a disagreeable odor, but they are good eating when ripe. The plant is a sprawling shrub of forest and wetland edges. Unfortunately, currants carry white…
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Nursing Fawn for Nature Photography Day - UP Nature Notes, No. 19
June 15, 2024
Nature Photography Day is celebrated annually on June 15th. It’s a day for photographers and nature lovers to capture the beauty of the natural world and encourage others to see it. This doe and fawn were ‘captured’ while I was trying to photograph bluebirds. I almost stepped on another fawn…