Out and About: Summer Sightings and Scenes

It always seems that summer goes by way too quickly. I try to be outside as much as possible working in and enjoying my garden, hiking and paddling locally and in the Adirondacks. This season I sought out quieter spots on weekdays to hike and did a camping trip to one of my favorite campgrounds, Putnam Pond. I'm hoping to camp one more time before there are frost warnings! It's going down to forty-two tonight so I better hurry. Here's a look at some sightings and scenes from July to early September.

The House Wren Nest Construction Inside the Nest Box

Monet - esque Dragonfly

Mama? Are you there? Juvenile Tufted Titmouse

Mourning Doves: We have to stop meeting like this.

THIEF!!!

Toad on Board! I paddled across the lake, down the outlet, past the preserve and then this toad came out between my feet. I paddled it back to the preserve and put it on dry land. I will now always check my boat. It could have been a snake!

Coated

Blue-headed Vireo Nest at Putnam Pond on our Campsite.

MUNCH. Monarch Caterpillar

INCOMING

View West from Potash Mountain Lake Luzerne

Paradox Lake

Loon Family on Paradox Lake

Last Pitch up Hurricane Mountain

Hurricane Mountain Summit with 35 foot Tower

High Peaks from Hurricane

Archer Vly Lake Desolation State Forest. You can kayak, hike and camp here. Trail partly around vly but you can bushwhack and follow a faint herd path  to go all the way around.

Heart Pond by Putnam Pond Campground

Cairn on Western Ridge Trail at Moreau Lake State Park. It marks the first overlook (seasonal) going north to south.

Bald Peak from Mount Gilligan near New Russia

Dix Range from Mount Gilligan

Top of Joel's Trail at Blueberry Hill Trail System Elizabethtown. Hiking and Mountain biking. View is over to Hurricane Mountain.

Clouds on Rocky Peak Ridge seen from Joel's Trail