Views
- I can't blame the heat this time: I only took 4 photos, again.
- Last year this time was a little slow, too, but not like this.
- Through the close cropped Sedge Meadow Trail a tiny blue-eyed grass was determinedly blooming.
- The garlic mustard was getting thicker around the base of the Old Oak.
- Above the Old Pasture were two, then four, then a dozen chimney swifts swirling against the clouds.
- Approaching the "Appendix", I heard a "chip"; I chipped back and was surprised to see beady eyes peering through the black mask of a common yellowthroat.
- Gay wings were out in a number of locations along the trails.
- And in a few places, star flower was beginning to bloom
- Right near the bottom of the Old Gravel Pit, hidden off to the side, was a great old apple tree in blossom.
- The last sighting of the day was the electric blue eastern bluebird in the afternoon sun. Nice.
Butterflies
- 3 Cabbage White
- 4 Spring Azure
Plants
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Birds
- 1 Turkey Vulture
- 10 Chimney Swift
- 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker
- 3 Eastern Phoebe
- 1 Warbling Vireo
- 2 Red-eyed Vireo
- 2 Blue Jay
- 2 American Crow
- 5 Black-capped Chickadee
- 4 Tufted Titmouse
- 1 Carolina Wren
- 2 House Wren
- 1 Eastern Bluebird
- 13 Veery
- 2 Wood Thrush
- 11 American Robin
- 5 Gray Catbird
- 6 European Starling
- 1 Blue-winged Warbler
- 1 Chestnut-sided Warbler
- 1 Black-throated Green Warbler
- 2 Prairie Warbler
- 2 Black-and-white Warbler
- 5 Ovenbird
- 2 Common Yellowthroat
- 1 Hooded Warbler
- 3 Scarlet Tanager
- 4 Eastern Towhee
- 1 Chipping Sparrow
- 2 Field Sparrow
- 1 Song Sparrow
- 2 White-throated Sparrow
- 1 Northern Cardinal
- 4 Rose-breasted Grosbeak
- 2 Red-winged Blackbird
- 1 Brown-headed Cowbird
- 3 Baltimore Oriole
- 3 House Finch
- 1 American Goldfinch
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