A Taste of the ‘daks

By Corey July 8, 2007 2 comments

I’m just back from a weekend’s birding in the Adirondack Mountains and St. Lawrence County and I am absolutely exhausted and it will take awhile for the experience to sink in to the point that I will be able to blog it properly. I had great company while exploring some of the most remote and wildest areas in New York and seeing some superb birds and other sundry creatures. But I had to share at least a little bit of the experience right away:

Spring Pond Bog

a small part of the 500 acre Spring Pond Bog

Great Spangled Fritillary

Great Spangled Atlantis Fritillary on the path to Sabbatis Bog (thanks Patrick)

Grasse River

the Grasse River near Cranberry Lake

Upside-down Northern Parula

a Northern Parula, fast becoming my favorite wood-warbler

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Corey

Corey

Corey is a lifelong upstate New Yorker who recently took the plunge and moved to the city. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list and broke the magical 300 barrier in New York State in 2007 by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative. He lives near Forest Park in Queens with Daisy and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B.

2 Responses to “A Taste of the ‘daks”

  1. How big was that Fritillary? It looks like it could be an Aphrodite Fritillary (smaller than Great-spangled). There’s an extra mark on the inner trailing edge of the forewing that is absent on Great-spangled.

  2. Wow…I have way too much to learn about butterflies…thinking back I would say about 4 inches from wingtip to wingtip…

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