All the photographs included in this website were taken by myself at Yantacaw Brook Park, with rare exceptions (i.e. the hawk, which I followed to Brookdale Park). At the moment, I don't have photographs of everything I've seen and noted on this website but I plan to add as much as I can, should I have the opportunity. Let's not forget that what is listed here is just the tip of the iceberg of what is actually living in the park.

If you haven't already enjoyed Yantacaw Brook Park, I invite you to visit. The Yantacaw Brook Park Conservancy and Montclair Parks & Public Works have done a wonderful job keeping the park looking its best.

FAUNA

BIRDS

American Crow

Black-chinned Hummingbird

Black-crowned Night Heron

Black Duck

Blue Jay

Brown-headed Cowbird
Canada Goose

Red-bellied Woodpecker

INSECTS

Admiral (butterfly)

American Painted Lady (butterfly)

Bumblebee

Cabbage White (butterfly)

Carpenter Bee

Common Buckeye (butterfly)

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Emerald Dragonfly)

Field Cricket

Firefly

Great Blue Skimmer (dragonfly)

Greenhead Gnat (aka Horsefly)

Ground Beetle

Hoverfly

Isabella Tiger Moth

Little Glassywing (butterfly)

Lyric Cicada

Midge

Monarch (butterfly)

Mosquito

Orange Sulphur (butterfly)

Water Strider

Woolly Bear Caterpillar

REPTILES/AMPHIBIANS

FISH

MAMMALS

Eastern Cottontail Rabbit

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FUNGI and OTHER

Psathyrella Candolleana

Puffball

Russola Emetica (aka The Sickener)

Sulphur Tuft

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to acknowledge the contributions of my husband and daughter in helping me find some of the creatures in this visual catalog, especially the goldfinches, butterflies and fawn.

I would also like to thank the people involved with the Rutgers University Environmental Steward program. Amy Rowe and Michele Bakacs run the Essex County chapter, which is the one in which I participated at Turtle Back Zoo.

I thank the Yantacaw Brook Park Conservancy for giving me its approval in doing this project and Gray Russell for his support of the Environmental Steward program as well as this project.

Lastly, I'd like to thank the fauna and flora of Yantacaw Brook Park for treating us to the beauty of nature.

Thank you for visiting!

Ivonne Guzman Klink