The Trails
- The bee balm at Gifford Garden was in its glory.
- I'd be interested in what comes to the island bed in the evening; sphinx moths - often mistaken for hummingbirds - are fond of the flowering tobacco and cleome both.
- It looked like a great spangled fritillary, but it's the aphrodite fritillary.
- The trail through the Old Gravel Pit held a large lace-border, a pretty unmistakable moth.
- After a loop through the Fern Glen, I continued on the Cary Pines Trail where cries of an insistent, young red-tailed hawk could be heard better than.
- By the footbridge out on the Wappinger Creek Trail the Pyrola, shin leaf, was blooming.
- In the Old Pasture, seemingly oblivious to the rain, a dogwood sawfly larva was stretched out on a gray dogwood leaf.
- Not oblivious to the rain, I stretched my legs, passed on the Old Hayfields, and went home.
In the Fern Glen
- Red baneberry was fruiting in the Glen.
- Nearby was not yet ripe white baneberry. The thicker berry stems allow one to distinguish the white from the red well before the berries form.
- Along the road, tall bellflower was in bloom.
- Indian pipe was coming up near the deck overlooking the Creek.
- The call of the red-breasted nuthatch caught my attention and I realized how slight their presence has been this season.
Moths
- 1 Snowberry Clearwing
- 1 Large Lace-border
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Birds
- 1 Wild Turkey
- 1 Red-tailed Hawk
- 1 Chimney Swift
- 1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird
- 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee
- 4 Red-eyed Vireo
- 2 Blue Jay
- 6 Black-capped Chickadee
- 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch
- 2 Wood Thrush
- 9 American Robin
- 2 Gray Catbird
- 1 Cedar Waxwing
- 1 Common Yellowthroat
- 2 Scarlet Tanager
- 3 Eastern Towhee
- 2 Chipping Sparrow
- 1 Field Sparrow
- 1 Northern Cardinal
- 1 American Goldfinch
Butterflies
- 1 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
- 24 Cabbage White
- 5 Great Spangled Fritillary
- 1 Aphrodite Fritillary
- 4 Eastern Comma
- 1 Red Admiral
- 6 Northern Pearly-eye
- 1 Little Wood-Satyr
- 7 Common Wood-Nymph
- 2 Monarch
- 6 Northern Broken-Dash
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