Photo Galleries

 

As everyone knows this website is dedicated to the preservation and the sharing of the beauty and the wonders of nature at The Volo Bog Nature Area.  Please share your talent with us by submitting photos to be posted on this website for everyone to enjoy. We may not be able to post all photos, but all photos posted will be credited to whoever submits them.  This is all new to us, and there will be constant changes as we go along. Please let us hear from you.  Address Questions and Inquires to Info@FriendsOfVoloBog.org

 

Bog Wetland Photos

 

Blue Flag Iris

Dragonfly

Purple Pitcher

Plant In bloom

Green Heron

Above Photos by Tom Lowden

 

Cinnamon Fern

Fiddle Heads  

Winterberry Holly

Tickseed in Bloom

Above Photos by Tom Lowden

 

 

 

 

Garter Snake

sunning itself

Purple Pitcher Plant

In Winter foliage

Sandhill Crane

with Chick

Long-eared Owl

migrating through

(- - - - - - - Above 3 photos by Bob Vetter - - - - - - -)

Above photo by Jerry Donahue

 

Tiger Salamander

Star Flowers

Bog Buckbean

Water Arum

 

Red Osier Dogwood

Purple Loosestrife

Crested Fern

Chokeberry blossoms

Poison Sumac berries

Water Arum seed pods

Photos by Bob Vetter

 

Rose Pogonia

Bog Center in Spring

Bog Center in Winter

Tufted Loosestrife

Indian Pipe

Photos by Tom Lowden

Photos by Bob Vetter

Photo by Phyllis Siegle

                       

Rose Pogonia Orchids

Meadowsweet Spirea

Humped Bladderwort blooms

Woodcock

Indian Pipes

Photos by Ralph Behrens

 

Arrowhead blooms

Tamarack cones

Jewelweed

Leopard Frog

Water Shield in bloom

Photos by Bill Ewart

Photos by Yoran Kalman

 

Cattails

Jewelweed

Water Shield

Cotton Sedge

Leatherleaf

Photos by Amy J Ruiz

Photos by Bob Vetter

 

Blue Dasher

Common Green

 Darner

Eastern Pond Hawk

White-face Meadow

Hawk, male

The above are some of the dragonflies that help keep Volo Bog free of mosquitoes and pesky flies

Photos by  the “Dragon Lady” Yvette Liautaud

 

These lovely Sandhill Crane & Wood Duck photos were  taken at Volo Bog in the Spring of  2007

 

Photos by Arlene Koziol

 

From the Prairie Gardens

 

 

Common Milkweed

Nodding Onion

Queen of the Prairie

Pale Beardtongue

 

Hoary Puccoon

Jacob’s Ladder

Wild Geranium

Prairie Smoke

Shooting Stars

Moss Phlox

White Trillium

Cardinal Flower

Dutchman’s Breeches

Jack-in-the-pulpit

Photos by Bob Vetter

Coreopsis

Pasqueflower

Butterfly Weed

Spiderwort

Rough Blazing Star

                                                                                                                                                     Photos by Bull Ewert

 

Hepatica 

Hepatica Blossom

Butterfly Weed

Red Trillium

                Photos by Tom Lowden

Flowers aren’t the only thing found in our prairie gardens

Sulfur on Aster

Tiger Swallowtail

Monarch on Goldenrod

Bee on Prairie Clover

                                                                                                                                                    Photos by Tom Lowen                                                               

 

 

Banded

Black & Yellow

Monarch Caterpillar

Golddigger Wasp

Garden Spiders

 

 

Photos by Bill Ewert

Photo by Tom Lowen

 

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