On the Trails of IES

Views

• In my annual photographic persuit of the Sedge Meadow's hooded warbler I snapped a fair shot of the prairy warbler.
• A dark smudge crossed the Wappinger Creek trail.
• Springtails! I estimate there about 5000 in this photo - one leaf; and they're not that thick here...
• Mossy tree roots pocketed a clump of gaywings along the Cary Pines trail.
• A great meeting of the watersnakes was taking place in the Fern Glen; I count four - and all facing the same way.
• Oops, one more; perhaps the ssspeaker...
• The fertile fronds of the cinnamon fern give it its name.
• Wood phlox were blooming all around the Cobble.
• White trillium become painted as they age.
• A favorite, the yellow lady's-slipper, was blooming in several places in the 'Glen'.
• As I was taking this photo of Soloman's seal, a hummingbird visited for nectar, but on the wrong side...

Plants newly in bloom

• Solomon's-seal
• Wood phlox
• Yellow lady's-slipper

Butterflies

• 2 Cabbage White
• 1 Spring Azure

Other Insects

• Springtail

Birds

• 8 Mallard
• 1 Great Blue Heron
• 3 Mourning Dove
• 2 Ruby-throated Hummingbird
• 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker
• 1 Northern Flicker
• 1 Eastern Phoebe
• 4 Great Crested Flycatcher
• 2 Eastern Kingbird
• 1 Blue-headed Vireo
• 1 Warbling Vireo
• 1 Red-eyed Vireo
• 6 Blue Jay
• 1 American Crow
• 10 Black-capped Chickadee
• 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch
• 1 House Wren
• 1 Eastern Bluebird
• 6 Veery
• 4 Wood Thrush
• 2 American Robin
• 2 Gray Catbird
• 1 European Starling
• 2 Blue-winged Warbler
• 1 Yellow Warbler
• 3 Chestnut-sided Warbler
• 2 Black-throated Green Warbler
• 4 Prairie Warbler
• 2 Black-and-white Warbler
• 6 Ovenbird
• 1 Louisiana Waterthrush
• 1 Hooded Warbler
• 5 Scarlet Tanager
• 4 Eastern Towhee
• 8 Chipping Sparrow
• 1 Song Sparrow
• 1 Northern Cardinal
• 1 Red-winged Blackbird
• 1 Brown-headed Cowbird
• 3 American Goldfinch