Trails
- Blue cohosh in the Gifford Gardens was living up to its name.
- If butterflies could talk I would have liked listening to this eastern tiger swallowtail's war stories.
- The trails were otherwise pretty quiet today...
In the Fern Glen
- Basking on the log in the pond was the first water snake I've seen since May.
- A fine patch of mud has developed in front of the bench at the edge of the pond.
- Butterflies of several species including the eastern tailed-blue come for the moisture and dissolved salts.
- And the frogs come too... for the butterflies...
- Other dangers lurk along the trail.
- A beautiful, but ever hungry, garden spider.
Moths
- 1 Yellow-collared scape moth
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Birds
- 1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird
- 1 Downy Woodpecker
- 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee
- 1 Red-eyed Vireo
- 4 Blue Jay
- 2 Black-capped Chickadee
- 1 Tufted Titmouse
- 1 Veery
- 4 American Robin
- 4 Gray Catbird
- 1 Cedar Waxwing
- 2 Eastern Towhee
- 3 Northern Cardinal
- 2 House Finch
- 4 American Goldfinch
Butterflies
- 5 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
- 54 Cabbage White
- 3 Clouded Sulphur
- 6 Orange Sulphur
- 2 Eastern Tailed-Blue
- 6 Great Spangled Fritillary
- 8 Pearl Crescent
- 1 Common Ringlet
- 10 Common Wood-Nymph
- 3 Monarch
- 6 Silver-spotted Skipper
- 1 Least Skipper
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