Waterman Conservation Education Center
@watermancenter
Promote conservation education, outdoor recreation, and environmental literacy. We serve our members, the Twin Tiers community, and all visitors to our collection of nature preserves. (Border counties of Central New York and Pennsylvania.)
Old-Man-of-the-Woods #fungus #FungiFriday #fridayfungi #fungifans #fungifriends #fungi #mushrooms #mycology #naturephotography
Jackson's Slender Caesar fungi looking like plum tomatoes :) #fungi #mycology #mushrooms #orange #red #hiking #summer #amanita #amanitajacksonii #shrooms #photography #FungiFriday #fungifriends #fungifans
A colorful find: Red Raspberry Slime Mold #slimemold #slimemould #tubifera #redraspberryslimemold #raspberryslimemold #myxomycetes #fungifriends
Eastern American Jack-O'-Lantern #mushrooms giving off a warm orange glow #fungi #fungifans #fungifriends #mushroom #mycology #naturephotography #fungus #shroomscrolling #mushroomphotography #FungiFriday #shrooms
#Teasel is a sweet flower that is now blooming in whites and lavenders. Though not a native, it is very attractive to lots of different #pollinators. #FrancisDarwin and his father studied teasel as a "proto-carnivorous plant #naturephotography #nature #flowers #honeybees #wetlands
The face-to-face positioning during most of this encounter between two #snappingturtles means it was almost certainly a fight for territory between two males #turtles #turtle #herpetology #naturephotography #reptiles #pondlife #snappingturtle #wetlandecology #wetlandlife #nature
A male #EasternPondhawk #dragonfly munches on a Beautiful Deer Fly. Female deer flies are vectors for diseases like anaplasmosis and act like flying hypodermic needles, making a cross cut on the skins of mammals to drink blood #Odonata #macrophotography #dragonflies #DragonflyWatching #insects #bugs
Swamp Milkweed Leaf Beetle #Insects #bugs #macro #naturephotography #beetles #macrophotography #entomology #swampmilkweed #pollinators #coleoptera #aposematism
Northern Catalpa Trees are known for their long slender seed pods, but the blossoms are gorgeous and smell wonderful! #catalpatree #catalpatreeblossoms #treeblossoms #flowers #trees
Hemlock Varnish Shelf fungus on a hemlock snag #fungi #fungifans #mushrooms #hemlockvarnishshelf #hemlockreishi #fungifriends
The Appalachian brown butterfly #butterflylovers #butterfly #brushfootedbutterfly
We get how they did the first thing with the eggs, but how did they manage the second thing? #Americantoad #toadmatingseason #toads #toadlove #toadfans #toadeggs #amplexus #wetlandlife #pondlife
A new invasive species is changing our Northeastern woods, and the first sign is leaf striping caused by a microscopic nematode. There's no large-scale solution but an expensive option for treating individual trees #BeechLeafDisease #BLD #invasivespecies #functionalextinction #beechtree
This Eastern Kingbird gave us a quizzical look #kingbird #Easternkingbird #wetlandbirds #birdwatching
Hexagonal-pored polypore (Neofavolus alveolaris) is commonly found on sticks and is always a fun find #fungifans #fungi #mushrooms #polypore #fungifriends #naturefinds
Red Deadnettle aka Purple Archangel is a mint with a long history of use as a food and part of an Anglo-Saxon herb charm "against a sudden/violent stabbing pain"--applied as an ointment with a sharp blade, naturally. Don't try that at home, please! #deadnettle #mintfamily #mint #edibleplants
Shaggy Mane—also called Shaggy Ink Cap and Lawyer’s Wig #fungi #SundayFungi #fungifans #mushrooms #fungus #ShaggyMane
After a couple of days in the mid-80s (F) here in our corner of NYS, we had a freeze where the low temperature overnight hit 20 degrees. The earliest and tallest of the Cinnamon fern fiddleheads didn't do well #ferns #fernfans #fernfriends #frondfriends #cinnamonferns #fiddleheads #springplants
A striking pile-up of Hoof Fungus looks down on a bank of Red Trillium #fungi #fungifans #fungifriends #mushrooms #springflowers #springephemerals #redtrillium #trillium
Likely Mauglancomyces korfii #fungi #fungifans #fungifriends #springnature #mushrooms
The Eastern Comma butterfly came out early and blends in perfectly with the dried leaf litter when its wings are closed #butterflies #EasternComma #EasternCommabutterfly #camouflage #butterflycamouflage
The pond at Lime Hollow Nature Center, Cortland, NY, was roiling with paired American toads—mating season is off to a very loud and obvious start! #toads #americantoads #amphibians #amplexus #pondlife
A Six-spotted Tiger Beetle, no doubt waiting on this fallen log for a small arthropod meal #beetles #insectlife #foresthiking #springinsects
Bay polypore, big and new and eye-catching from across the woods #FungiSunday #SundayFungi #fungifans #fungifriends
Red elderberry flowers #aprilflowers #redelderberry #elderberry #naturephotography
Warlock’s Butter (Exidia nigricans) #FungiFriday #fungifans #fungi #fungifriends #jellyfungus
We saw our first Scarlet elfcups of the year today! #fungiSunday #Sundayfungi #fungifans #ScarletElfcups #fungifriends
Even with their anti-freeze chemistry, the Christmas ferns are saying, “Enough!” #snowbegone #ferns #fernfans #Christmasfern #endlesswinter
Waterman's Pettus Hill Preserve in West Windsor, NY, boasts a large number of an ancient lichen called Smooth Rock Tripe (𝘜𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘢) on its north-facing boulders. Each thallus is attached by its "belly button," hence the common name "navel lichen" #lichen #fungi #rocktripe #navellichen