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- Peonies at the Gifford House were starting to bloom.
- Wild calla in the water garden at Gifford House was interesting.
- On the Cary Pines Trail patchs of hay-scented fern were glowing in the sun.
- A pair of anxious robins made me look closer at the bush by my side. Yes, a nest.
- New blooms in the Fern Glen included: crested iris, foamflower, and Herb-Robert.
- Along the Cary Pines Trail new arrivals were starflower, and (at last) Canada mayflower - or wild lily-of-the-vally, if you prefer.
- And on the Wappinger Creek Trail the non-native star-of-Bethlehem was blooming.
Plants newly in bloom
- Canada mayflower
- Crested iris
- Foam Flower
- Herb-Robert
- Peony
- Star-of-Bethlehem
- Starflower
- Wild calla
Butterflies
- 3 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
- 4 Cabbage White
- 1 Clouded Sulphur
- 1 Orange Sulphur
- 5 American Copper
- 13 Spring Azure
- 7 Pearl Crescent
- 2 Common Ringlet
- 1 Silver-spotted Skipper
- 4 Juvenal's Duskywing
Moths
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Birds
- 1 Turkey Vulture
- 1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo
- 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker
- 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee
- 2 Eastern Phoebe
- 2 Great Crested Flycatcher
- 5 Red-eyed Vireo
- 2 Blue Jay
- 2 American Crow
- 3 Black-capped Chickadee
- 1 White-breasted Nuthatch
- 1 House Wren
- 2 Veery
- 3 Wood Thrush
- 11 American Robin
- 6 Gray Catbird
- 2 Blue-winged Warbler
- 1 Yellow Warbler
- 1 Chestnut-sided Warbler
- 1 Black-throated Green Warbler
- 4 Prairie Warbler
- 3 Black-and-white Warbler
- 3 Ovenbird
- 2 Common Yellowthroat
- 3 Scarlet Tanager
- 2 Eastern Towhee
- 4 Chipping Sparrow
- 2 Field Sparrow
- 1 Song Sparrow
- 2 Northern Cardinal
- 1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak
- 1 Brown-headed Cowbird
- 3 Baltimore Oriole
- 3 American Goldfinch
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