On the Trails of IES

Trails

• The water garden at Gifford House was looking good.
• A beautiful little Northern eudeilinea was resting in the shade.
• Nearby, blackberry lilies were in bloom.
• The old hayfields were mowed today.
• Out on the Wappinger Creek Trail was a fine mushroom.
• And on the Cary Pines Trail was a singular Indian pipe.

Butterflies

• 7 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
• 7 Cabbage White
• 1 Orange Sulphur
• 1 American Copper
• 2 Eastern Tailed-Blue
• 4 Great Spangled Fritillary
• 11 Pearl Crescent
• 2 Red Admiral
• 3 Northern Pearly-eye
• 8 Appalachian Brown
• 2 Little Wood-Satyr
• 33 Common Wood-Nymph
• 9 Monarch
• 1 Crossline Skipper
• 10 Northern Broken-Dash
• 2 Delaware Skipper
• 2 Mulberry Wing
• 8 Dun Skipper

Moths

• 1 Snowberry Clearwing
• 1 Northern eudeilinea

Birds

• 2 Red-shouldered Hawk
• 1 Red-tailed Hawk
• 1 Mourning Dove
• 2 Ruby-throated Hummingbird
• 2 Downy Woodpecker
• 2 Northern Flicker
• 1 Pileated Woodpecker
• 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee
• 1 Eastern Phoebe
• 5 Red-eyed Vireo
• 3 Blue Jay
• 9 Black-capped Chickadee
• 1 Tufted Titmouse
• 2 White-breasted Nuthatch
• 1 Brown Creeper
• 1 House Wren
• 4 Veery
• 2 Wood Thrush
• 9 American Robin
• 4 Gray Catbird
• 1 Cedar Waxwing
• 2 Eastern Towhee
• 1 Chipping Sparrow
• 5 Field Sparrow
• 1 Song Sparrow
• 1 Northern Cardinal
• 1 Indigo Bunting
• 5 American Goldfinch