northeast naturalist

Eastern Kingbirds -- © Dave Spier Eastern Kingbirds are easy to recognize; they are charcoal above, black around the eyes and cro...

Monarch on teasel -- © Dave Spier Teasel -- © Dave Spier For all their prickles, one might imagine that teasels are somehow rela...

The title can be taken several ways and we'll get to both. The first meaning is the name of a common garden pest, the Squash Bug ( A...

Black Terns -- © Dave Spier The cattails grew denser and denser. Long poles would have been more effective than paddles as we grab...

female Eastern Pondhawk with eggs emerging below the tail all photos © Dave Spier Eastern Pondhawks -- © Dave Spier One of the mo...

Cerulean Warblers © Dave Spier The Cerulean is an uncommon and vulnerable* warbler that is declining throughout its range in the...

Butterflies on Milkweeds -- © Dave Spier As a followup to the previous blog, here is a selection of four butterfly species sipping nect...