Views
- The peonies in Gifford Garden were spectacular.
- In one corner of the garden lupines made them a nice background.
- A number of insects were attracted to the goat's beard including more than one eight-spotted forester, a handsome day flying moth.
- At the end of the Scotch Pine Allee, near trail marker post 6, I spotted an unusual leaf; It was that of the pink lady's-slipper, not seen in some years!
- In the Old Gravel Pit, nearer to post 13 than 14, was a patch of tree-like club moss.
- I'd never noticed honewort along the Wappinger Creek Trail before. Between posts 9 &apm; 10 was a spot with both normal and crinkled forms. The crinked form bay be in response to attack by another oganism. Investigation is in order...
- Tucked under a cedar in the Old Pasture was a nice mushroom or two.
In the Fern Glen
- In the 'Glen, American Ipecac was in full bloom.
- White baneberry was forming berries.
- When ripe, they are white with a black dot and are called doll's eyes.
- This exotic comes up every year, and every year we try to figure out what it is.
- Twinleaf has a seed pod that reminds me of the old Pezz dispenser.
- In the meadow up the road on my way out, a little wood satyr paused long enough for just one more photo.
Butterflies
- 3 Spring Azure
- 2 Pearl Crescent
- 44 Little Wood-Satyr
- 5 Common Ringlet
- 1 Silver-spotted Skipper
- 12 European Skipper
- 7 Hobomok Skipper
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Birds
- 1 Red-tailed Hawk
- 2 Mourning Dove
- 1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo
- 1 Downy Woodpecker
- 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee
- 2 Eastern Phoebe
- 1 Great Crested Flycatcher
- 2 Red-eyed Vireo
- 2 Blue Jay
- 2 American Crow
- 3 Black-capped Chickadee
- 2 Brown Creeper
- 1 House Wren
- 3 Veery
- 2 Wood Thrush
- 5 American Robin
- 1 Gray Catbird
- 10 Cedar Waxwing
- 1 Yellow Warbler
- 2 Prairie Warbler
- 1 Ovenbird
- 1 Louisiana Waterthrush
- 1 Scarlet Tanager
- 2 Eastern Towhee
- 5 Chipping Sparrow
- 4 Field Sparrow
- 1 Song Sparrow
- 1 Northern Cardinal
- 2 Baltimore Oriole
- 1 House Finch
- 2 American Goldfinch
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