South Bay, East Basin (L&B Property)
Long's Bittercress (Cardamine longii)
Long's Bittercress (Cardamine longii)
Painted Turtle (Chrysemys picta)
Common Snapping Turtle (Chelydra serpentina)
Broadleaf Arrowhead (Sagittaria latifolia)
Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa)
Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata)
Sago Pondweed {Stuckenia pectinata)
Fringe-tip Closed Gentian (Gentiana andrewsii)
Tidal Arrowhead (Sagittaria montevidensis ssp. spongiosa)
Alewife Floaters (Anodonta implicata) and Horsetail (Equisetum sp.)
Blueback Herring (Alosa aestivalis)
Eastern Floater (Pyganodon cataracta)
Alewife Floater (Anodonta implicata)[left]; Eastern Elliptio (Elliptio complanata) [right]
Tidewater Mucket (Leptodea ochracea); male [left] and female [right]
American witch-hazel (Hamamelis virginiana)
American Germander (Teucrium canadense)
Great Bulrush (Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani)
Gray's Sedge (Carex grayi)
American Groundnut (Apios americana)
Allegheny Monkey-flower (Mimulus ringens)
Oblong-winged Katydid (Amblycorypha oblongifolia)
Greater Angle-wing Katydid (Microcentrum rhombifolium); male
East Branch Creek and floodplain forest
Gray Treefrog (Hyla versicolor) on Tree of Heaven (Ailanthus altissima)
Golden Club (Orontium aquaticum) in bloom
Golden Club (Orontium aquaticum)
American Wildcelery (Vallisneria americana)
American Wildcelery (V. americana), unpollinated female flowers
American Wildcelery (V. americana), pollinated female flowers
South Bay in February
Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)
Marsh Marigolds (Caltha palustris) in April
Heart-leaf Plantain (Plantago cordata) in May
Heart-leaf Plantain (Plantago cordata)
Northern Watersnake (Nerodia s. sipedon) and live American Eel (Anguilla rostrata)
Yellow Iris (Iris pseudacorus) and Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis)
Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis)
White Turtlehead (Chelone glabra)
Fringed Loosestrife (Lysimachia ciliata)
Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana) in Weeping Willow (Salix babylonica)
Water Stargrass (Heteranthera dubia)
Pickerelweed (Pontedaria cordata)
Yellow Iris in May (freshwater tidal swamp)
East Branch Creek in June
Coon's-tail (Ceratophyllum demersum)
Long-horned Caddisflies (Family: Leptoceridae)
Eastern Wild Rice (Zizania aquatica)
Eastern Wild Rice (Zizania aquatica)
West Branch Creek in November
Narrow-leaved Cattails (Typha angustifolia); East Basin and Mt. Merino
West Branch Creek in June
Painted Turtle (Chrysemys picta)
Painted Turtle (Chrysemys picta)
Mad-dog Skullcap (Scutellaria laterifolia)
Arrow Arum (Peltandra virginica)
Hedge-nettle (Stachys tenuifolia)
Pickerelweed (Pontedaria cordata)
Mummichogs
Mummichog (Fundulus diaphanous)
White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus)
Wild Mint (Mentha arvensis)
Yellow Iris (Iris pseudacorus)
Larger Blue Flags (Iris versicolor) and Yellow Iris (Iris pseudacorus)
Iris Snout Weevils (Mononychus vulpeculus) on Larger Blue Flag (Iris versicolor)
Blue Vervain (Verbena hastata)
Green Heron (Butorides virescens)
Unidentified sedge (Cyperaceae family)
Golden-winged Skimmer (Libellula auripennis)
East Basin in June
South Bay outlet in mid-January at Hudson River
View to Middle Ground Flats from South Bay beach