Views
- Must have been the heat and being on my feet birding all morning, but I only took 4 photos!
- A hummingbird in front of the Gifford House was too quick to make it five.
- It was several volleys over the Gifford House roof before a red admiral slowed long enough for me to ID.
- Scarlet tanagers could be heard all about and a pair was fighting the wind over the Fern Glen.
- For some time there had been three painted turtles in the pond. One day there was a fourth.
- The first snowberry clearwing moth was here the next day (but I need photos today...).
- And a dainty crane fly was dangling from a tiny member of the mustard family - just the day before...
- The Eastern pine elfin was still to be found on dandelion, ground ivy, or damp soil of the foot paths (photo 5/9/05).
- Blue phlox were fragrent in the Glen.
- A pileated woodpecker is breathtaking. A pair working their way through the "Appendix" was a holy experience.
- Entering the Sedge Meadow Trail from the Old Pasture, I thought there was something too abrupt about a certain falling leaf. Indeed, it was an American lady butterfly.
- As I approached the old oak and fungus, a large dark butterfly went by the edge of the Old Hayfield - a mourning cloak (photo 5/09/05 in Fern Glen).
- A little swamp sparrow close up along the Sedge Meadow Trail did much to raise my appreciation of the "little brown jobs" - I'm a sucker for a pretty face.
- Crossing the Sedge Meadow boardwalk, I was happy to hear the return of the camera shy hooded warbler.
- And with these temperatures, I went home to relax with a traditional 19th century British beverage of the tropics.
Butterflies
- 5 Cabbage White
- 2 Eastern Pine Elfin
- 3 Spring Azure
- 1 Mourning Cloak
- 1 American Lady
- 2 Red Admiral
Moths
- 1 Snowberry clearwing (5/12/05)
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Birds
- 1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird
- 1 Downy Woodpecker
- 2 Pileated Woodpecker
- 2 Eastern Phoebe
- 2 Yellow-throated Vireo
- 2 Red-eyed Vireo
- 7 Blue Jay
- 1 American Crow
- 2 Black-capped Chickadee
- 5 Tufted Titmouse
- 1 House Wren
- 2 Veery
- 2 Wood Thrush
- 10 American Robin
- 4 Gray Catbird
- 3 Blue-winged Warbler
- 1 Yellow Warbler
- 2 Black-throated Green Warbler
- 2 Prairie Warbler
- 4 Black-and-white Warbler
- 3 Ovenbird
- 1 Louisiana Waterthrush
- 1 Hooded Warbler
- 4 Scarlet Tanager
- 3 Eastern Towhee
- 2 Chipping Sparrow
- 4 Field Sparrow
- 1 Song Sparrow
- 1 White-throated Sparrow
- 1 Red-winged Blackbird
- 4 Brown-headed Cowbird
- 5 Baltimore Oriole
- 1 House Finch
- 8 American Goldfinch
Plants
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