Happy March to everyone who’s discovered the Adirondack Park Nature Magazine!
We’re taking this week to ask you for a donation to help keep our project viable. We are a small group of Adirondack nature lover volunteers – publishing when we can and enjoying the opportunity to share our photographs, videos, and audio recordings with [...]
Happy March to everyone who’s discovered the Adirondack Park Nature Magazine!
We’re taking this week to ask you for a donation to help keep our project viable. We are a small group of Adirondack nature lover volunteers – publishing when we can and enjoying the opportunity to share our photographs, videos, and audio recordings with you. We are grateful for your support during this first week in March.
You can either use the following donation set-up or you can use our mailing address (see Support Our Work for more details). We are a volunteer project of Nature Kinship Productions. Thank you so, so much – and please let us know if we can list your name on the website under “Our Supporters.”
Until the last fifty years, the wild turkey was not a permanent resident of the Adirondacks. But now, most of us see these birds year round in the park.
Tom and Jackie Kalinowski examine why the turkey is managing to survive in the Adirondacks especially during the most challenging time of year — winter. Here’s their [...]
A blanket of winter snow on the forest floor is the perfect background for viewing certain Adirondack critters. One of these critters is the snow flea – which, as Tom and Jackie Kalinowski explain, isn’t really a flea.
Although the blue jay is considered to be a permanent resident of the Adirondacks, it can choose to fly south for the winter if it hasn’t identified – or cached – a reliable food source. That’s why blue jays can be seen almost every day during some winters, and hardly at all during others.
The gray fox is the less common fox species in the Adirondacks. While the red fox is associated with more northern climates, the gray fox is essentially a southern species – although it can be found in northern climates like ours. With a stouter body and shorter legs, traveling through deep snow can be a [...]
Without a doubt, the balsam fir is a quintessential Adirondack tree – especially during this time of year. So, as a special holiday treat, Tom and Jackie Kalinowski investigate the balsam fir in their fifteenth episode of Nature In the Adirondacks.
One of the critters who’s probably most relieved that snow has finally arrived in the Adirondacks is the Varying (or Snowshoe) Hare. Because this hare changes coat colors twice a year – and because the change is triggered by daylight hours and not the weather – the Varying Hare can stand out with its [...]
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