On the Trails of IES

Trails

• Along the Old Hayfields, Birdfoot trefoil was popular among the European skippers, which were in great numbers today.
• Deptford pink is alien, but not terribly invasive.
• Also in the back Old Hayfield was a patch of longleaf lobelia.
• Those European skippers were all over the cow vetch today, too.
• Little wood-satyrs spend very little time, if any, on flowers.
• On the Wappinger Creek Trail, near the foot bridge over the little brook, pyrola was in bloom.
• The nodding blossoms are peculiar, indeed.
• Picturesque was the fern tucked in the tree roots along the Cary Pines Trail.
• And right by post #12 was partridge berry sporting both bloom and fruit.

In the Fern Glen

• The pond's edge had common elder in blossom.
• Daisy fleabane was blooming too.
• Even though it is invasive, Japanese honesuckle still conjures warm childhood memories.

Butterflies

• 12 Cabbage White
• 2 Orange Sulphur
• 1 Spring Azure
• 2 Great Spangled Fritillary
• 1 Pearl Crescent
• 1 Eastern Comma
• 8 Little Wood-Satyr
• 1 Common Ringlet
• 200 European Skipper
• 1 Peck's Skipper
• 1 Tawny-edged Skipper

Moths

• 1 Nessus Sphinx

Birds

• 3 Mourning Dove
• 1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird
• 1 Belted Kingfisher
• 1 Downy Woodpecker
• 2 Northern Flicker
• 2 Eastern Wood-Pewee
• 1 Eastern Phoebe
• 6 Red-eyed Vireo
• 3 Blue Jay
• 1 American Crow
• 2 Tree Swallow
• 1 Winter Wren
• 5 Veery
• 5 Wood Thrush
• 8 American Robin
• 5 Gray Catbird
• 2 Cedar Waxwing
• 1 Chestnut-sided Warbler
• 3 Prairie Warbler
• 4 Ovenbird
• 2 Louisiana Waterthrush
• 1 Common Yellowthroat
• 1 Hooded Warbler
• 2 Eastern Towhee
• 3 Chipping Sparrow
• 1 Field Sparrow
• 1 Song Sparrow
• 1 Red-winged Blackbird
• 1 Brown-headed Cowbird
• 1 Baltimore Oriole
• 4 American Goldfinch