Nature Done Wright

   While waiting for an event to begin at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary last weekend, I noticed a few people pointing at something on the edge of the parking lot. After a bit of searching, I found what they were so beezed up about — a Red Spotted Newt.

    Pretty sharp-looking little dude! More on Red Spotted Newts here.

    For pix of a Water Strider (and some stuff I didn't know about it), plus a photo of a spider (but only if you scroll down), click "Continue reading…

   On a damp Thursday last week, when the only raptors we saw were local Kestrels, my wife and I thought we'd do what we do on gloomy
days at the Celery Farm — go for a walk and look for little critters.

  Photographed this Water Strider along the Appalachian Trail near Hawk Mountain, in a stream that flows under Hawk Mountain's River of Rocks up-stream. Pretty cool how these bugs use water surface tension — or not! — to travel on the water. More on Water Striders here.

   Below, this humongous spider was hanging out by the stream.