UP Nature Notes (Blog)

  1. 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…

  2. White Spruce Cone Study - UP Nature Notes, No. 18

    May 27, 2024
    The preceding post focused on wind pollinated woody plants, including a young white spruce seed cone. Here’s a further photographic study of white spruce reproduction showing receptive and fertilized female (seed) cones and a male cone releasing pollen. White spruce can produce cones as early as four years of age.  …

  3. UP Nature Note No. 17: Pollination Life Styles & Terminology

    May 15, 2024
    Native trees and shrubs of the UP generally flower early in the growing season, especially the species that are wind pollinated (anemophily), such as birch, willow, and spruce. Fewer species, like black cherry and mountain maple are pollinated by animals (zoophily), mostly insects (entomophily). And some species are primarily insect…

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