Views
- First stop this week was the Old Oak and fungus.
- Along the way, a pheasant called, a palm warbler dodged, and two ravens soared.
- Something lunged across my path in the Old Hayfield: a katydid; many were heard today.
- The flooding of the Wappinger Creek from last week's rains must have swept away the footbridge over the little brook. A step stone is in its place.
- The bridge at the "Appendix" was the one I had my bets on, but it was still there, seemingly untouched.
- There was a flurry of activity as the Cary Pines Trail lets out to the road to the Fern Glen: Chickadees, both kinglets, and a blue headed vireo.
- In the Fern Glen a small fungus reminded me of an Oreo cookie in reverse.
- Throughout the Glen was a variety of berries: winterberry, burning bush, barberry, and spicebush.
- The Old Gravel Pit was full of kinglets and chickadees - even another palm warbler.
- And the only butterflies of the day were clouded sulphurs in the Little Bluestem Meadow.
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Birds
- 1 Ring-necked Pheasant
- 4 Turkey Vulture
- 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker
- 2 Downy Woodpecker
- 1 Eastern Phoebe
- 1 Blue-headed Vireo
- 5 Blue Jay
- 5 American Crow
- 2 Common Raven
- 12 Black-capped Chickadee
- 2 Tufted Titmouse
- 3 White-breasted Nuthatch
- 3 Golden-crowned Kinglet
- 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
- 1 American Robin
- 1 Gray Catbird
- 5 Cedar Waxwing
- 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler
- 2 Palm Warbler
- 1 American Goldfinch
Butterflies
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