Trails
- Black-eyed Susans greet the visitor at the entrance to Gifford Gardens.
- I was delighted to encounter a black-and-white warbler up close in the Old Gravel Pit; I haven't even heard one in months.
- Along the Wappinger Creek Trail I came across what I first thought was virgin's bower - a wild clematis, but with book in hand it looks more like wild cucumber or bur-cucumber. Come back for an update...
- Farther upstream was a sycamore with a great broken branch that spanned the creek bank to bank.
- Just before the trail rises to the Old Pasture, something darted out to challange me, then returned to its sunny perch. A northern pearly-eye as one might expect.
- A turkey quill was on the path right at the entrance to the Old Pasture.
- Behind the Sedge Meadow, Appalachian browns were patrolling the path. And right by the Old Oak, an eastern comma sat in the afternoon sun.
In the Fern Glen
- Mud at the edge of the pond entertained several cabbage whites.
- Cardinal flower, a lobelia, was blooming in several locations.
- Great blue lobelia was blooming along the edge of the pond, as well.
- The juice of the stem of spotted jewel weed is said to sooth the itch of poison ivy.
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Birds
- 1 Turkey Vulture
- 3 Mourning Dove
- 1 Northern Flicker
- 1 Pileated Woodpecker
- 2 Eastern Wood-Pewee
- 3 Eastern Phoebe
- 1 Red-eyed Vireo
- 5 Blue Jay
- 9 Black-capped Chickadee
- 2 Tufted Titmouse
- 2 White-breasted Nuthatch
- 1 Eastern Bluebird
- 1 Wood Thrush
- 21 American Robin
- 5 Gray Catbird
- 1 Cedar Waxwing
- 1 Black-and-white Warbler
- 2 Ovenbird
- 2 Eastern Towhee
- 1 Field Sparrow
- 5 American Goldfinch
Butterflies
- 1 Black Swallowtail
- 3 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
- 1 Spicebush Swallowtail
- 45 Cabbage White
- 2 Clouded Sulphur
- 6 Orange Sulphur
- 3 Eastern Tailed-Blue
- 2 Great Spangled Fritillary
- 25 Pearl Crescent
- 1 Eastern Comma
- 2 Northern Pearly-eye
- 2 Appalachian Brown
- 4 Common Ringlet
- 7 Common Wood-Nymph
- 5 Monarch
- 2 Northern Broken-Dash
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