Lisa Stevens

[New Jersey Pinelands Commission @nj_pinelands]

HERE WE GHOST: Here's a new photo of a male northern harrier (aka Gray Ghost) soaring over the Pinelands National Reserve. 🐦

📷: Paul Leakan, Pinelands Commission Communications Officer

#birds #hawks #birdphoto #nj

[New Jersey Pinelands Commission @nj_pinelands]

Happy #MacroMonday! Here are new #macros of a native eastern showy aster #flower coated in morning dew. Showy asters (Eurybia spectabilis) attract countless butterflies, bees and other pollinators while blooming from August through October.

📷: Paul Leakan, NJPC

[New Jersey Pinelands Commission @nj_pinelands]

RED OCTOBER: Here are new photos of #cranberries being harvested in the #NewJersey #Pinelands. The American cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon) is native to New Jersey, where they thrive in the sandy, acidic soils of the million-acre Pinelands.

📷: Paul Leakan, NJPC

#Farming

[New Jersey Pinelands Commission @nj_pinelands]

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[New Jersey Pinelands Commission @nj_pinelands]

OCTOBERFEAST: Here are new photos of a great blue heron catching fish left and right in a former cranberry bog in the #NewJersey #Pinelands. 🐦 🐟.

📷: Paul Leakan, Pinelands Commission Communications Officer

#birds #Herons #fish #fishing #October

[New Jersey Pinelands Commission @nj_pinelands]

Sitting pretty on Turtle Tuesday in the #NewJersey #Pinelands 🐢 ...

📷: Paul Leakan, Pinelands Commission Communications Officer (Caption: A native painted turtle basking on a log in a pond in the Pinelands.)

#turtle #turtles #turtlelovers #iliketurtles #wildlife

[New Jersey Pinelands Commission @nj_pinelands]

Here are new photos of a yellow-billed cuckoo foraging in the #NewJersey #Pinelands. The yellow-billed cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus) is about the size of a blue jay, according to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. 🐦

📷: Paul Leakan, NJPC

[New Jersey Pinelands Commission @nj_pinelands]

FRIENDS CALL ME BUBBLES: Happy Frog Friday! Here's a new photo of a young bullfrog in the ##NewJersey #Pinelands. Bullfrogs are a non-Pinelands species. Their call sounds like "Jug-o-rum." 🐸

📷: Paul Leakan, NJPC

#frog #FridayFeeling

[New Jersey Pinelands Commission @nj_pinelands]

Pawpaws (Asimina triloba) are native to New Jersey and much of North America, and they produce green, edible fruits that taste like banana custard (or a combination of banana and mango). They are enjoyed by humans and a variety of wildlife.

[New Jersey Pinelands Commission @nj_pinelands]

The vibrant colors of the 1.1-million-acre Pinelands National Reserve of southern #NewJersey, as shown in our last nine posts. 🐦🐢🦋🌼🐸🐛🌎 ...

📷: Pinelands Commission staff

#wildlife #NaturePhotography #Pinelands #birds #turtles #snakes #butterflies

[New Jersey Pinelands Commission @nj_pinelands]

HOME, SWEET HOME: Scenes from today's brief trek at the Franklin Parker Preserve in the #NewJersey #Pinelands 🥾 ...

📷: Paul Leakan, Pinelands Commission Communications Officer

#Pinelands #newjersey #frog #frogs #trees #nature #nj #water #forests #home

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🚨BREAKING: A family-owned Michigan auto parts business says Republican tariffs are crushing business, resulting in the permanent loss of 102 jobs

[New Jersey Pinelands Commission @nj_pinelands]

Happy Turtle Tuesday! Here’s a beautiful, native painted #turtle crossing a sand driving trail in the #NewJersey #Pinelands. Please keep watching for wildlife crossing roads and driving trails in the Pinelands. 🐢 ❤️

📷: Paul Leakan, NJPC

[New Jersey Pinelands Commission @nj_pinelands]

Here’s a newly captured view of a salt marsh skipper #butterfly sipping nectar from a spotted knapweed flower along Wildlife Drive at the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in the Pinelands National Reserve. More 🦋 photos are on the way!

📷: Paul Leakan, NJPC

[Lisa Stevens @lisastevens816]

This would be very sad. What can be done to help? @GreatSwampNJ @NJAudubon @nj_pinelands

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Beloved N.J. environmental school will shut down if ‘tragic’ budget cut is approved https://t.co/FNvUVjYN9m

[New Jersey Pinelands Commission @nj_pinelands]

WARTY FOR THE PARTY: Happy Toad Friday! Here's a new photo of a wonderfully warty, native Fowler's #toad that was hopping beside a trail in the #NewJersey #Pinelands.

[New Jersey Pinelands Commission @nj_pinelands]

Happy #NationalTrailsDay in the #NewJersey #Pinelands! Here are scenes from numerous trails in the 1.1-million-acre Pinelands National Reserve. It’s a great day to explore the region or plan your next #hike! 🥾

📷: Paul Leakan, NJPC

[New Jersey Pinelands Commission @nj_pinelands]

Happy Turtle Tuesday! Here’s a native spotted turtle that found the perfect spot to bask. This photo was taken last spring, which is also when you are most likely to spot a spotted #turtle in #New Jersey. 🐢

📷: Paul Leakan, NJPC

#nj #Pinelands

[Lisa Stevens @lisastevens816]

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[Lisa Stevens @lisastevens816]

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