The Trails
- A fresh looking American lady was one of a number of visitors to the butterfly bushes in Gifford Gardens.
- Others, like this great spangled fritillary, had obviously been around a while.
- Pickerelweed was blooming in the water garden.
- And the lotus, which had been blooming in the end of July, now had a ripening seed pod.
- The front Old Hayfield had been mowed last week and butterflies were few but for along the edge.
- The unmowed back Old Hayfield was still active and held a nice viceroy - the monarch look-alike.
- Departing though the Scotch Pine Alleé I noticed silverrod, one of the easy goldenrods to ID, starting to bloom.
- I was chatting before leaving the parking lot when a magnificent io moth caterpillar lumbered across the pavement between us. These have stinging spines.
In the Fern Glen
- The lemony scented Horsebalm was beginning to go to seed.
- Spicebush berries were turning red. These leaves are fragrent when rubbed.
- In the limestone cobble, jack-in-the-pulpit seeds were screaming red under a maidenhair fern.
- And Sphagnum moss has been being spread about the fen.
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Birds
- 3 Blue Jay
- 2 American Crow
- 3 Black-capped Chickadee
- 2 Brown Creeper
- 1 Eastern Bluebird
- 2 Gray Catbird
Butterflies
- 2 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
- 1 Spicebush Swallowtail
- 18 Cabbage White
- 8 Clouded Sulphur
- 1 American Copper
- 6 Great Spangled Fritillary
- 2 Pearl Crescent
- 1 Painted Lady
- 2 Red Admiral
- 1 Viceroy
- 1 Common Ringlet
- 3 Monarch
- 4 Silver-spotted Skipper
Moths
- 2 Hummingbird Clearwing
- 4 Snowberry Clearwing
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