PHOTO JOURNAL

Lupine with bee Squam BioBlitz participants, Laurie Beeson (with binoculars) and SLA staffer Brett Durham are driven out to Rattlesnake Cove by Margaret Gillespie Loon Preservation Committee (LPC) Squam Biologist Tiffany Grade scans for Loons LPC Biologist John Cooley (kneeling) works on plant ID at Kusumpe Pond while (l-r) Bryant Tolles, Caroline Tolles and Tiffany Grade look on. The rain on the days prior to the BioBlitz brought up a good variety of fungi. Male American Kestrel. The Science Center launched a new Kestrel Education and Conservation project in 2008 Female American Kestrel eating dragonfly. A grant from the Jane B. Cook Charitable Trust and an anonymous foundation made this project possible. Male American Kestrel. SLNSC Naturalist Jeremy Phillips is visiting schools all over the state installing boxes 100 metal mailboxes were donated by the Solar Group (part of Gibraltar Industries) and have been turned into Kestrel nesting boxes American Kestrels hunt by hovering over open fields and meadows In January 2008 we installed a Osprey nesting pole at the Science Center NH Electric Coop generously donated equipment and manpower The huge man-made nest was bolted to a 60-foot utility pole donated by NH Electric Coop The pole, with nest attached was hoisted into place Now we wait to see if any Ospreys choose our nest All this effort was triggered by this pair of Ospreys which tried to nest on a pole (with live wires) on the shore of the lake in 2007 Blanding's Turtle Bat house Peregrine Falcon The staff of SLNSC visited and toured the Seacoast Science Center in Rye, NH on April 14 Fisher Photo by Ed Sharron Eagles nesting on Squam Lake Photo by Heather Lord Loon on Squam Lake Mountain Lion Senior Natualist, Dave Erler with a Red-tailed Hawk Northern Saw-whet Owl Squam Lake Naturalist, Margaret Gillespie with Barred Owl