Saturday June 25, 2011 - Partly cloudy, high of 22°C.
2 Woodchucks (1 seen/ 1 heard)
1 Gray squirrel
1 Eastern cottontail (Baby)
1 Redstart (Male)
Several Red-winged blackbirds
1 Grackle
3-4 Tree swallows (2-3 chicks/ 1 adult)
3-4 Song sparrows
1 Blue heron (Fly over)
3 Mallards (Males)
1 Crow
4-5 Painted turtles
1 Garter snake
3 Green frogs seen
4 Gray Tree frogs (4 heard)
Many mosquitoes
1 Fruit fly (Tephritinae) displaying wings
2 Dance flies (Rhamphomyia longicauda)
Aphids on Burdock
1 American Idia moth (Idia americalis)
2 Cabbage whites
Several Skippers (1 or 2 species seen)
1 Ladybug larva
1 Grasshopper nymph
Several Water striders
1 Firefly
3 Sphex wasps
Bees/ ants
Sow bugs
Coiled land snails common
Earthworms common under stones
Mustard species seen
Ground ivy
Sweet rocket flowers
Bittersweet nightshade
Stinging nettle flowers
Field pennycress (Thlaspi arvense)
Hoary alyssum
Possible Goat's beard
Lady’s thumb
Vetch
Buttercup
Foxtail barley
Orchard Grass (Dactylis glomerata)
Manna grass (Glyceria)
Bedstraw (Galium)
Woolgrass (Scirpus)
Common fleabane
Dock
Dandelion
Alsike clover
Red clover
Hop clover
Viper’s Bugloss
Trefoil
White Yarrow (1st for 2011)
Milkweed flowers (1st for 2011)
Chamomile (1st for 2011)
Purple Loosestrife (1st for 2011)
Chicory (1st for 2011)
Rough-fruited cinquefoil
Rough cinquefoil (Potentilla norvegica)
Oxeye daisy
Wood sorrel
Bladder campion
Mugwort in flower (Artemisia vulgaris)
Hedge false-bindweed
Narrow-leaved Everlasting-pea (Lathyrus sylvestris)
Pineapple weed
Unknown pink flower (Phlox?)
Parsnip-like flower- pink florets/ leaves alternating
Stone crop (Sedum sarmentosum)
Nipplewort (Lapsana communis)
Daisy fleabane (Erigeron annuus)
Black Raspberry preparing to fruit
Strawberry preparing to fruit
Purple-flowering raspberry flowers
Possible Nodding sedge (Carex gynandra) rough leaves
Probable Bebb’s sedge (Carex bebbii)
Awl-fruited sedge (Carex stipata)
Softstem bulrush
Dogwood flowers
Sumac flowers out
Coral fungi is coming back
Dead-man’s fingers (Xylaria polymorpha) – 1 colony seen