Welcome to page TWO! Here's more photographic wonders seen at the Pohoqualine Fish Association!



A beautiful "ferny" forest!

Here's a glimpse of some of Pohoqualine's high-country! This was several hundred feet (in elevation) above the creek, near McMichaels. If you'd like to set this image as your Desktop, you may pick up your copy HERE.



Here's one of the prettiest butterflies in the region. This is the Baltimore, and is also the "State insect" for the State of Maryland. This butterfly inhabits the marshy, sunny, open lowlands, where its host plant, the Turtlehead grows. The butterfly itself poses well for the camera, being not too shy. This one was taken near Rte. 715, about a mile South of McMichaels.



Eastern Box Turtle (Terrapene c. carolina). At the upper-region of Pohoqualine, Fall Creek splashes down out of the Poconos, and becomes McMichaels Creek. The falls themselves are quite incredible, and is best when there's been a lot of heavy rain, which will cause them to thunder down the mountainside! Box Turtles are seen in this region frequently, but below the town of McMichaels they seem to be entirely lacking!



This rare daytime Coyote-sighting was seen in a small field in the Hypsy Gap Rd. area. I caught it off-guard when I entered the field from the woods, and managed to get this picture before it saw me, and darted off into the distant forest!.



Gray Treefrog (Hyla versicolor). The Pohoqualine area comes to a grand conclusion near the town of Brodheadsville, and the Nature Conservancy has made available a beautiful area of wetlands near an old quarry, and animal life here is abundant! Public is invited to bring the camera and binoculars, and I have spent a lot of time here, with the only downfall being the invasive Mexican Tea, which is quickly crowding-out the native vegetation in the open fields. When crushed, it smells like bleach, and nothing native seems to feed on it! Since the mid-1980's it has about spread to cover that whole area! Anyway a nighttime visit on a warm, wet night will reveal a lot of wonderful froggage, including this species, which led me to its presence by its call!



Yarrow (Achillea)

Here's a wild "spice", and when the leaves are crushed, it's a pleasant smell, but the crushed flowers are quite pungent! When dried however, it can be uses for such things as flavoring spice cake, carrot cake, and breading for fish!