New views of Clementine, a native eastern screech owl that is part of the Education Team at the Woodford Cedar Run Wildlife Refuge in the #NewJersey #Pinelands 🦉🌎 #owls #owl #birds #bird

Happy Snake Saturday! Here’s a native corn #snake in the New Jersey Pinelands. The corn snake (Pantherophis guttatus) is a non-venomous, colorful, secretive species of rat snake that reaches the northern limit of its range in the #Pinelands. 🐍 🌎 📷: John Bunnell, NJPC

Enjoy your weekend in the 1.1-million-acre Pinelands National Reserve, our country's first national reserve, and an internationally designated biosphere reserve. Here are new scenes of Brendan T. Byrne State Forest in the NJ Pinelands. 🌎 🥾 📷: Paul Leakan, NJPC

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 #wildlife

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

DREAMSCAPE: Here are new photos of the #NewJersey #Pinelands, where gerardia, asters, and goldenrods are livening the landscape while attracting countless pollinators and human admirers. 🌼 🌸 🐝 🦋 🌎 📷: Paul Leakan, Pinelands Commission Communications Officer #flowers

Happy Warbler Wednesday! Here are new photos of a yellow-rumped #warbler foraging in the #NewJersey #Pinelands. 🐦 🌎 📷: Paul Leakan, Pinelands Commission Communications Officer #birds #Wednesday #nj

🎶 SOMEWHERE, OVER THE RAINBOW 🎶: Here's a recent rainbow created by sunlight striking water droplets from a sprinkler that was soaking a farm field in the New Jersey Pinelands. Talk about Roy G. Biv. 🌈 🌎💧... 📷: Paul Leakan, Pinelands Commission Communications Officer #rainbow #rainbows

Trust the climb and find a peaceful place on Turtle Tuesday 🐢🌎✌️ ... 📷: Paul Leakan, Pinelands Commission Communications Officer #turtle #turtles #turtletuesday #tuesdayvibe #basking #nature #NewJersey #Pinelands

Scenes from the first day of autumn in the #NewJersey #Pinelands 🍃🌼🦋🌎 ... 📷: Paul Leakan, Pinelands Commission Communications Officer #fall #autumn #autumnvibes #fallvibes #autumnal #fallcolors #goldenrod #asters #nativeplants #butterflies

Happy fall in the 1.1-million-acre Pinelands National Reserve of southern New Jersey. Here’s a new reel featuring autumnal scenes in the Pinelands. Are you excited for fall? 🍂 🎃 🌎 📷: Paul Leakan, Pinelands Commission Communications Officer #autumn #fall #autumnvibes #fallvibes #fallleaves

Happy Sunflower Sunday! Here are new photos of #sunflowers in the #NewJersey #Pinelands. 🌻 Who's ready for fall? 🌎🌼🍂 📷: Paul Leakan, Pinelands Commission Communications Officer #sunflowers #sunflower #flowers

RADIANT RED: Here's a new photo of a gorgeous meadowhawk dragonfly perched on a twig along the Batona Trail in Brendan T. Byrne State Forest in the New Jersey Pinelands. ❤️ 🌎 📷: Paul Leakan, Pinelands Commission Communications Officer #dragonfly #dragonflies

Happy Snake Saturday! Here’s a hatchling hognose #snake in the #NewJersey #Pinelands. Sometimes called a “puff adder,” the eastern hognose snake (Heterodon platirhinos) is a thick-bodied snake with an upturned snout that is used for digging. 🐍🌎 📷: John Bunnell, Pinelands Commission Chief Scientist

Enjoy your weekend in the #NewJersey #Pinelands, wherever you explore. Here are new photos of this morning's sunburst over Brendan T. Byrne State Forest in the Pinelands. 🌞 🌎 📷: Paul Leakan, Pinelands Commission Communications Officer #weekend #weekendvibes #sun #thesun

A VERY PINELANDS SCENE: Happy Frog Friday! Here are new photos of a native southern leopard frog basking beside native, insectivorous spatulate-leaved sundews in the #NewJersey #Pinelands. 🐸 🌎 📷: Paul Leakan, NJPC

Happy National Pawpaw Day! Pawpaw trees produce fruit in abundance at the Pinelands Commission’s headquarters in Pemberton Township, NJ. 🌳 📷: Paul Leakan, NJPC #trees #pawpaw #nationalpawpawday #fruits #food #flowers

RAIN GARDEN GLORY: New photos and videos of the New Jersey Pinelands Commission's rain #garden in Pemberton Township. Come check it out, and bring a camera! 🌼🦋🐝 📷: Paul Leakan, Pinelands Commission Communications Officer #flowers #gardens #nature

Happy Wading Bird Wednesday! Here's a snowy egret deploying the landing gear next to great egrets in the Pinelands National Reserve. 🐦 🌎 📷: Paul Leakan, Pinelands Commission Communications Officer #birds #bird #wildlife

MIRROR, MIRROR, ON THE POND: Whose beauty goes above and beyond? Why, it's a painted turtle, with a sweet reflection. Photographed from afar, so I avoided detection. Thank you for reading this little blurb. Let's give turtles space and do not disturb. 🐢 🌎 📷: Paul Leakan, NJPC #turtles

STICK TO IT: Happy #MacroMonday! Here are new photos of native spatulate-leaved sundews (Drosera intermedia) growing at the edge of a pond in the #NewJersey #Pinelands. 🌱🪲🌎 📷: Paul Leakan, Pinelands Commission Communications Officer #plants #nj

Terry Tern had never tried the balance beam, but nary a gull was laughing when he stuck the landing. 🐦🏅 📷: Paul Leakan, Pinelands Commission Communications Officer #birds #birds #NewJersey #Pinelands

Is there something on my nose? 🤔. Also, Happy Squirrel Sunday in the #NewJersey #Pinelands! Here's a new photo of an American red #squirrel that suddenly appeared along a trail in the Pinelands. 🌎 📷: Paul Leakan, Pinelands Commission Communications Officer #wildlife #nature #squirrels

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

FUNGUS AMONG US: Here's a new photo of a brilliantly purple, slimy #mushroom in the #NewJersey #Pinelands. It is likely Cortinarius iodes, which is also known as the viscid violet cort. 🍄🌎 📷: Paul Leakan, Pinelands Commission Communications Officer #fungi #mushrooms

Happy Snake Saturday! Here’s a beautiful, native corn #snake in the #NewJersey Pinelands. The corn snake (Pantherophis guttatus) is a non-venomous, colorful, secretive species of rat snake that reaches the northern limit of its range in the NJ #Pinelands. 🐍🌎 📷: John Bunnell, NJPC

FLOWER POWER: Here are new views of our rain #garden, where #love is blossoming. Featuring 100% native #Pinelands #plants, the garden captures and helps to treat and infiltrate an estimated 53,278 gallons of stormwater onsite each year. 🌼 🦋 🌎 📷: Paul Leakan, NJPC

BASKING BEAUTY: Happy #FrogFriday! Here are new photos of a native southern leopard #frog basking at the edge of a lake in the #NewJersey #Pinelands. 🐸 🌎 📷: Paul Leakan, Pinelands Commission Communications Officer

MELLOW YELLOW: Here are new photos of a common yellowthroat #warbler that was foraging beside a trail and suddenly gained a feathered friend in the #NewJersey #Pinelands. 🐦 🌎 📷: Paul Leakan, Pinelands Commission Communications Officer #birds #wildlife

CREAMSICLE CUTIE: Happy Wading #Bird Wednesday! Here are new photos of a stunning, uncommon western cattle-egret foraging in the Pinelands National Reserve. 🐦 🌎 📷: Paul Leakan, Pinelands Commission Communications Officer #birds #birdphotography #nj #wildlife

Happy #Monday! Here are new photos of gorgeous camphorweed cucuilla #moth (Cucullia alfarata) caterpillars munching on native eastern showy asters and Maryland goldenasters in the Pinelands Commission's rain #garden in Pemberton Township, NJ. 🌎🌼 🐛 📷: Paul Leakan, NJPC

Here’s a new photo of a native timber rattlesnake in the New Jersey Pinelands. A venomous species, the timber rattlesnake (Crotalis horridus) is listed as endangered species in New Jersey. 🐍 📷: John Bunnell, Pinelands Commission Chief Scientist

Happy Sunday! Here are newly captured scenes at the more than 8,400-acre Winslow Wildlife Management Area in the New Jersey Pinelands 🥾 ... 📷: Paul Leakan, Pinelands Commission Communications Officer #pinebarrens #forests #trees #nature #water

Happy International #Vulture Awareness Day in the #NewJersey #Pinelands! Vultures are nature’s cleanup crew, consuming carcasses, and helping to clean the environment and thwart the spread of diseases. 🐦 ❤️ 🌎 📷: Paul Leakan, NJPC

Happy Snake Saturday! Here’s a new photo of a native timber #rattlesnake in the #NewJersey #Pinelands. 🐍 🌎 A venomous species, the timber rattlesnake (Crotalis horridus) is listed as endangered species in New Jersey. 📷: Paul Leakan, NJPC

RARE STUNNER: Native Pine Barren gentians are blooming in the #NewJersey #Pinelands, much to the delight of hoverflies, bees, butterflies and other pollinators. Have you seen this gorgeous species? 💙 🌿 🌎 📷: Paul Leakan, Pinelands Commission Communications Officer  #Flowers

Happy 🐸 Friday in the New Jersey Pinelands! 🌎 📷,: Paul Leakan, Pinelands Commission Communications Officer #frog #frogs #froggy #froglovers #frogfriday #amphibians

More than 40 people attended a presentation on exploring #Lenape culture at the #NewJersey #Pinelands Commission's headquarters in Pemberton Township today.

Happy #NationalWildlifeDay in the #NewJersey #Pinelands! Here's a tiny sampling of the thousands of #animal species that find refuge in this 1.1-million-acre region. Have you seen all of these species this year? 🌎 🐢 🦋 🐍 🦌 📷: Paul Leakan, Pinelands Commission Communications Officer #wildlife

Starting from scratch on Wading Bird Wednesday in the #NewJersey #Pinelands. 🌎 🐦 📷: Paul Leakan, Pinelands Commission Communications Officer #wadingbirds #birds #bird

New York ironweed (Vernonia noveboracensis) is blooming in the #NewJersey #Pinelands. This species is native to NJ, can grow up to 6 feet tall, and is topped by purple/magenta #flowers that attract bees and butterflies from August through September. 🌎 🌸 📷: Paul Leakan, NJPC

HEAD IN THE CLOUDS: Today's view of puffy #clouds reflecting off the clear waters of Penbryn Pond in the state Pinelands Area of Winslow Township in Camden County. 🌎☁️ 📷: Paul Leakan, Pinelands Commission Communications Officer #water #reflections #cloud

ON THE SPOT: Happy Turtle Tuesday! Here's a wonderfully ornate, native spotted turtle that was "spotted" in the rain in the NJ #Pinelands this May. 🐢 🌎 📷: Joel Mott, Pinelands Commission Principal Public Programs Specialist #turtle #turtles #turtletuesday #iliketurtles

Happy #LaborDay in the #NewJersey #Pinelands! It's a perfect day to unwind and soak in the serenity of this million-acre treasure. There are so many great places to explore, such as the Great Egg Harbor #River. 🥚❤️🌎 📷: Paul Leakan, NJPC

Happy Sunday! Here are new scenes captured at our headquarters in Pemberton Township, NJ. Our rain and bog gardens are filled with native plants that are attracting pollinators. 🦋 🐝 📷: Paul Leakan, Pinelands Commission Communications Officer

Happy Snake Saturday! Here’s a newly recorded video of native corn snakes and northern pine #snakes that just hatched or are hatching in the #NewJersey #Pinelands Commission’s #science laboratory. 🐍 #nature #scientific youtu.be/2lvQS-N6P70?...

Enjoy your long weekend in the 1.1-million-acre Pinelands of #NewJersey, wherever you explore. Here is today's view at Whitesbog Village, where cottony clouds hung above water-filled bogs flanked by lemony goldenrods and purple showy asters 🏵 🥾 ... 📷: Paul Leakan, NJPC

Happy Frog #Friday! Here are new photos of a native southern leopard frog that emerged from a lake at the Franklin Parker Preserve in the #NewJersey #Pinelands. 🐸 📷: Paul Leakan, Pinelands Commission Communications Officer #frog #frogs #frogfriday #wildlife #FridayVibes

SCARLET STUNNER: Cardinal flowers are blooming along the banks of the Great Egg Harbor River in the #NewJersey #Pinelands ❤️ 🌸 ... 📷: Paul Leakan, Pinelands Commission Communications Officer #flowers #flower #plants #NatureBeauty

THE EYES HAVE IT: Happy Wading Bird Wednesday! Here's a new photo of a great blue heron foraging in the Pinelands National Reserve. Look at those intense eyes! 👀 🐦 📷: Paul Leakan, Pinelands Commission Communications Officer #birds #birdphoto #NJ