On the Trails of IES

Views

• Iris and peonies at the Gifford Gardens.
• Inside the Carriage House, a walnut sphinx moth.
• Egad! An Eastern pine elfin being eaten by a spider!
• A One-lined Zale along the Cary Pines Trail.
• Easily mistaken for a butterfly, a bluish spring moth in the Fern Glen
• The birch bark-like friendly probole moth on the Wappingers Creek Trail.
• Farther along, a tree across the path.
• A quick look at the Old Oak and I was off.

Butterflies

• 1 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
• 1 Spicebush Swallowtail
• 1 American Copper
• 2 Eastern Pine Elfin
• 11 Pearl Crescent
• 1 Red-spotted Purple
• 67 Little Wood-Satyr
• 21 Common Ringlet
• 1 Erynnis Duskywing Genus
• 1 Juvenal's Duskywing
• 6 Peck's Skipper
• 3 Tawny-edged Skipper

Moths

• 1 Walnut Sphinx
• 1 One-lined Zale
• 1 Friendly Probole

Birds

• 1 Turkey Vulture
• 2 Mourning Dove
• 1 Belted Kingfisher
• 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker
• 1 Downy Woodpecker
• 1 Pileated Woodpecker
• 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee
• 1 Eastern Phoebe
• 1 Great Crested Flycatcher
• 1 Yellow-throated Vireo
• 1 Warbling Vireo
• 8 Red-eyed Vireo
• 3 Blue Jay
• 3 Black-capped Chickadee
• 1 Brown Creeper
• 1 Carolina Wren
• 1 House Wren
• 1 Winter Wren
• 5 Veery
• 1 Wood Thrush
• 10 American Robin
• 2 Gray Catbird
• 2 Cedar Waxwing
• 1 Blue-winged Warbler
• 1 Prairie Warbler
• 1 Black-and-white Warbler
• 6 Ovenbird
• 2 Louisiana Waterthrush
• 1 Common Yellowthroat
• 1 Hooded Warbler
• 2 Scarlet Tanager
• 7 Eastern Towhee
• 6 Chipping Sparrow
• 1 Field Sparrow
• 3 Song Sparrow
• 4 Northern Cardinal
• 1 Indigo Bunting
• 1 Red-winged Blackbird
• 2 Baltimore Oriole
• 1 American Goldfinch