Along the Way
- I thought I heard a pine warbler in the Scotch Pine Alleé. I was right.
- Leaves were coming out on the honeysuckle in the Old Gravel Pit.
- Going down the path, I came upon a pair of those curious, flower feeding bee flies. One's wings are invisible as they were beating.
- Any bets how long the puddle will remain at the bottom of the path?
- Canada mayflower was putting up a forest of leaves as usual near trail marker 12 on the Cary Pines Trail.
- The many trout-lily at the far end of the Wappinger Creek Trail were in bloom.
- Wood anemone blossoms can be quite pink before they open.
- A very unafraid pheasant allowed reasonably close viewing on the Sedge Meadow Trail.
In the Fern Glen
- I thought I had a shot of the shad bush in the Fern Glen.
- The blossoms do show its apple family resemblence.
- A dark bordered form marginata spring azure was obliviously nectaring on ground ivy.
- Wild oats were blooming near the road.
- Bellwort was clustered in many places.
- I thought the old log and the twinleaf looked marvelous together.
- Very similar to the Dutchman's breeches that was out earlier is squirrel corn.
- Red trillium was at peak performance and greatly outnumbered the white trillium.
- One thing in the Glen that I usually see along the Wappinger Creek Trail was cut-leaved toothwort. I didn't see it out there today.
- A personal favorite, early meadow-rue reminds me of little lamp shades.
- As I was leaving the Glen I came across one clump of false rue-anemone and had something to ponder along the way.
- False rue-anemone... an anemone that looks like a rue...
but this isn't it...
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Birds
- 2 Ring-necked Pheasant
- 1 Mourning Dove
- 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker
- 4 Blue Jay
- 1 American Crow
- 4 Black-capped Chickadee
- 2 Tufted Titmouse
- 9 American Robin
- 1 Pine Warbler
- 1 Louisiana Waterthrush
- 2 Eastern Towhee
- 2 Chipping Sparrow
- 3 Field Sparrow
- 1 Northern Cardinal
- 1 Red-winged Blackbird
- 3 American Goldfinch
Butterflies
Plants
- 1 Cut-leaved toothwort
- 1 Early meadow-rue
- 1 False rue-anemone
- 1 Large-flowered trillium
- 1 Perfoliate bellwort
- 1 Red trillium
- 1 Squirrel-corn
- 1 Twinleaf
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