The Trails
- The borrowed binoculars are not close-focus, and something inside seems out of alignment, but that could be just me...
- The Scots Pine Alleé was quiet as I tested the new bins.
- I walked slowly and kept alert in the Old Gravel Pit. As expected, the first Northern Pearly-eye was lurking in the shadows.
- At the meadow above the Fern Glen number of skippers were taking nectar on wild basil.
- By the bridge Jack-in-the-pulpit was forming berries and Spotted wintergreen looked like it was doing the same, but they were actually little round flower buds.
- A number of things were newly blooming too; see the list below.
- Continuing along the Cary Pines Trail I could just pick out the song of the Winter Wren down in the ravine.
- And at the Appendix a Carolina Wren called.
- More Northern Pearly-eyes were found just before the Wappinger Creek Trail ascends the bluff. They will come over to investigate passersby...
- The somewhat similar Appalachian Brown was in back of the Sedge Meadow. They are not at all curious about us.
- I went home curious about how a Trail Report without photos would work.
Butterflies
- 4 Cabbage White
- 2 Clouded Sulphur
- 1 American Copper
- 27 Great Spangled Fritillary
- 1 Eastern Comma
- 4 Northern Pearly-eye
- 4 Appalachian Brown
- 15 Little Wood-Satyr
- 37 Common Wood-Nymph
- 1 Monarch
- 7 Silver-spotted Skipper
- 6 Northern Broken-Dash
- 4 Little Glassywing
- 1 Delaware Skipper
- 3 Dun Skipper
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Birds
- 1 Turkey Vulture
- 2 Red-eyed Vireo
- 2 Blue Jay
- 8 Black-capped Chickadee
- 5 Tufted Titmouse
- 1 Carolina Wren
- 1 House Wren
- 1 Winter Wren
- 2 Veery
- 4 Wood Thrush
- 7 American Robin
- 2 Gray Catbird
- 4 Cedar Waxwing
- 22222 Prairie Warbler
- 1 Ovenbird
- 1 Common Yellowthroat
- 1 Eastern Towhee
- 1 Chipping Sparrow
- 1 Field Sparrow
- 3 American Goldfinch
Plants
- 1 Enchanter's Nightshade
- 1 Great St. Johnswort
- 1 Jack-in-the-pulpit
- 1 Spotted Wintergreen
- 1 Swamp Azalea
- 1 Swamp Milkweed
- 1 Tall Meadow-rue
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