The Trails
- Another emphatic display of territorial behavior around the highly contested Sedge Meadow stopped me in my tracks.
- As I continued around the bend an explosion of wings startled me. I presumed it was a woodcock; they do like it along there.
- Creekside on the Wappinger Creek Trail, dogtooth violet or trout lilly, was putting up its interestingly mottled leaves.
- The cry of departing wood ducks told me I wasn't as stealthy as I'd hoped to be.
- I waited and watched a while from behind a tree - long enough to count two males and a female, and long enough to observe a pair of mallards join the group.
- My hopes of sneaking up for a photo were quite in vain...
- In the Fern Glen good close ups of red maple blossoms were easy to come by.
- Lower to the ground Dutchman's breeches were blooming.
- I already mentioned my favorite: round-lobed hepatica. Look at those fuzzy stems and leaves!
- We have both spring beauty and Carolina spring beauty. Carolina has a broader leaf.
- Marsh marigold was taking off now.
- I'd fogotten we have wild leeks near the shrub swamp plaque.
- Our favorite invasive alien plants were leafing out: the bush honeysuckles and garlic mustard
- 40 degrees wasn't that bad, but it was nice to get home to a warm wood stove.
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Birds
- 3 Wood Duck
- 2 Mallard
- 1 Accipiter
- 5 Easterh Phoebe
- 1 Blue Jay
- 1 American Crow
- 5 Black-capped Chickadee
- 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch
- 1 White-breasted Nuthatch
- 1 Brown Creeper
- 2 Golden-crowned Kinglet
- 1 American Robin
- 4 Chipping Sparrow
- 1 Song Sparrow
- 2 Dark-eyed Junko
Plants
- 1 Dogtooth Violet
- 1 Dutchman's Breeches
- 1 Round-lobed Hepatica
- 1 Carolina Spring Beauty
- 1 Wild Leek
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