Views
- Last week's budding toothwort and cut-leaved toothwort were now in bloom along the Wappinger Creek Trail.
- Masses of wood anemone were in several places farther along the trail.
- Late afternoon light warmed the pastels of the blossoms and budding leaves along the Creek.
- Of its many names, I usually use "ironwood", but in this case "musclewood" might be my choice.
- At the Fern Glen, the crab apple was beginning to blossom at the edge of the little meadow.
- There was a false rue-anemone tucked away in one corner of the Glen.
- In deeper shade there are still hepatica at their peak, including the sharp lobed and my favorite, the round lobed.
- Those fuzzy stems rival the beauty of the blossoms they support!
Plants newly in bloom
- Cut-leaved toothwort
- Toothwort
- Wood anemone
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Birds
- 1 Ring-necked Pheasant
- 1 Mourning Dove
- 4 Eastern Phoebe
- 1 Blue Jay
- 3 American Crow
- 5 Black-capped Chickadee
- 1 Tufted Titmouse
- 2 Red-breasted Nuthatch
- 2 White-breasted Nuthatch
- 1 Brown Creeper
- 1 Winter Wren
- 1 Eastern Bluebird
- 7 American Robin
- 1 Louisiana Waterthrush
- 1 Eastern Towhee
- 3 Chipping Sparrow
- 1 Field Sparrow
- 3 Song Sparrow
- 1 Northern Cardinal
- 1 Red-winged Blackbird
- 1 American Goldfinch
Butterflies
- 3 Cabbage White
- 4 Eastern Pine Elfin
- 7 Spring Azure
- 1 Eastern Comma
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