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Trail Reports
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May 29, 2019
Notes and Changes since last report
It was 65°F, mostly cloudy with a light breeze at 2:15 PM on May 29, 2019. It would start raining around 4PM.
Little wood-satyr had returned.
This week's trail report covers the Wappinger Creek Trail side of the trail system.
The Trails
The grass in the
front Old Hayfield
at Gifford House was getting tall.
At the trail head,
common milkweed
was getting tall, with flower buds just forming.
Out in the field,
spittle bugs
were on the bedstraws.
In spite of the overcast day,
pearl crescents
would pass by from time to time.
Along the edge, an
American redstart
was calling loudly, but hiding skillfuly.
These smoky-winged, orange backed
flies
are around every year.
Hawkweeds
look a bit like dandelions.
Caterpillars of the day-flying
white-banded toothed carpet
feed on bedstraws.
A pair of
tiger moths
might have been ignored as spittle bugs.
In the Sedge Meadow, there was no doubt about the
blue flag
.
Next to it,
Angelica
was beginning to bloom.
And behind them both,
cinnamon fern
was living up to its name.
Another commonly encountered
fly
was out in numbers.
Gray days don't seem to bother the
little wood-satyr
, which had just returned.
The phlox immitator,
dame's rocket
, was coming into its own.
In the back of the back Old Hayfield,
ironwood
flowers and leaves were host to a lot of activity.
A long, green
bug
blended in well.
A
fly and spider
seemed quite aware of each other.
Several
gypsy moth caterpillars
were about.
If there were only one, this
little gall
could have been dismissed as a scar.
The petals of
chickweeds
are so deeply notched that they appear to be twice as numerous.
Again, the
Wappinger Creek
was looking full from the bluff in the woods after the Old Pasture.
The trunk of an
old oak
had fallen across the path.
At the bottom of the hill, a great flapping noise rose with a
turkey vulture
.
A
forest tent caterpillar
was spralled out along a twig. In spite of the name, they make no tent.
Another
caterpillar
on another twig was unknown to me.
Along the floodplain, only a few blossoms of
star-of-Bethlehem
were out this year.
Up ahead was a healthy stand of
stinging nettle
.
It's separate male and female
flowers
were forming.
Below, invasive
narrow-leaved bittercress
blossoms took a practiced eye to notice.
Next week: the Cary Pines Trail side of the trail system.
Sightings
Mammals
Birds
Butterflies
Moth
Insects
Caterpillars
Arthropods
Fungus
Herp
Plants
Other
1 Turkey Vulture
3 Pearl Crescent
1 Common Spring Moth
1 Spittlebug
1 Angelica
1 Red-tailed Hawk
4 Little Wood-Satyr
1 Blue flag
1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1 Chickweed
2 Chimney Swift
1 Hawkweed
1 Red-bellied Woodpecker
1 Mystery plant
1 Northern Flicker
1 Star-of-Bethlehem
1 Pileated Woodpecker
2 Eastern Wood-Pewee
2 Eastern Phoebe
2 Great Crested Flycatcher
1 Warbling Vireo
3 Red-eyed Vireo
1 Tufted Titmouse
1 House Wren
2 Eastern Bluebird
3 Veery
1 Wood Thrush
2 American Robin
3 Gray Catbird
3 European Starling
1 Blue-winged Warbler
1 Black-throated Blue Warbler
1 Prairie Warbler
1 American Redstart
2 Louisiana Waterthrush
1 Common Yellowthroat
4 Eastern Towhee
1 Chipping Sparrow
1 Field Sparrow
1 Song Sparrow
2 Northern Cardinal
1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak
1 Indigo Bunting
1 Red-winged Blackbird
3 Baltimore Oriole
1 American Goldfinch
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