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May 18, 2022


American Copper

Notes and Changes since last report

  • It was 65°F, mostly cloudy and windy on May 18, 2022.
  • Sun earlier in the day was enough to bring out some returning butterflies.
  • American copper, meadow fritillary, and pearl crescent were among todays arrivals.
  • This week's trail report covers the Wappinger Creek Trail side of the trail system.

The Trails

  • From across the road at Gifford House came the metallic, bubbling call of bobolink.
  • It took a while to find - it was in the bare trees, not along the road, but way in back.
  • Right in the parking lot, lilacs were as easy to spot as they were to smell.
  • Varieties included white and a paler purple.
  • The grass at the trailhead had grown considerably in a week.
  • Bird's-eye speedwell was keeping its head up so far.
  • Farther along, buttercup was keeping pace as well.
  • Along the edge, bush honeysuckles were coming into their own.
  • Lower along the edge, our native wild geranium was blooming.
  • In the corner between fields the viburnum, nannyberry, was starting up.
  • The flower heads were not many, but they were in their prime.
  • Moths were rising from and dropping into the bedstraws along the path. They were the white-banded toothed carpet; the caterpiller feeds on bedstraws.
  • A tiny bit of orange danced among the buttercups - an American copper.
  • It obliged with a view from below as well.
  • On the Sedge Meadow Trail, tower mustard reached up as high as one's knees.
  • A dragonfly patrolled the hollow where the trail drops into the woods.
  • I will hazard a guess at female common baskettail.
  • There was no doubt about the surrounding burningbush with its plentiful flowers.
  • The call of prairy warbler had come close, but only for a moment.
  • Out in the Sedge Meadow, cinnamon fern could be seen rising.
  • It is the spore producing "fertile frond" that the name comes from.
  • Even before entering the back Old Hayfield, you could smell the too sweet scent of olive.
  • Olives invade fields shading out competition. Autumn olive has red berries, Russian olive has green.
  • From one back corner to the other, a flowering dogwood was plain to see.
  • The white petals are actually bracts; the flowers are the little green structures in the center.
  • Back on the Sedge Meadow Trail, another white-banded toothed carpet was blending in nicely on the trunk of a red cedar.
  • Below, hooked crowfoot, a buttercup relative, was in a patch of sun.
  • Finally a pearl crescent landed for just a moment in the Old Pasture - then it was gone.
  • Rains again have kept the Wappinger Creek flowing well.
  • A dozen mallards were feeding and preening.
  • Sunny, open woods is where one would expect early woodland butterflies such as commas, but...
  • ... a mayfly was what we found today.
  • Nearby, a veery was very loud.
  • Down below, starflower was starting to bloom.
  • In the floodplain, several black-capped chickadees were foraging right along the edge of the path.
  • The path was lined with invasive narrow-leaved bittercress. It is very satisfying to pull, but note there are other similar species.
  • That brought us up to the "Appendix" and the bench at trail marker 10.
  • An American robin was content with a branch over the water.
  • Next week: the Cary Pines Trail the side of the trail system.

Sightings

Birds
  • 12 Mallard
  • 1 Red-tailed Hawk
  • 1 Mourning Dove
  • 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker
  • 1 Downy Woodpecker
  • 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee
  • 1 Yellow-throated Vireo
  • 2 Red-eyed Vireo
  • 1 Blue Jay
  • 1 Tree Swallow
  • 2 Black-capped Chickadee
  • 1 House Wren
  • 3 Veery
  • 2 Wood Thrush
  • 10 American Robin
  • 8 Gray Catbird
  • 2 European Starling
  • 1 Pine Warbler
  • 2 Prairie Warbler
  • 1 American Redstart
  • 3 Ovenbird
  • 2 Eastern Towhee
  • 1 Chipping Sparrow
  • 2 Song Sparrow
  • 1 Northern Cardinal
  • 4 Rose-breasted Grosbeak
  • 1 Bobolink
  • 4 Red-winged Blackbird
  • 2 Baltimore Oriole
  • 5 American Goldfinch
Butterflies
  • 1 Cabbage White
  • 3 Clouded Sulphur
  • 1 American Copper
  • 1 Meadow Fritillary
  • 4 Pearl Crescent
Moths
  • 1 White-banded toothed carpet
Plants
  • 1 Bird's-eye speedwell
  • 1 Burning bush
  • 1 Buttercup
  • 1 Flowering dogwood
  • 1 Hawkweed
  • 1 Hooked crowfoot
  • 1 Kousa dogwood
  • 1 Nannyberry
  • 1 Russian olive
  • 1 Starflower
  • 1 Tower mustard
  • 1 Wild geranium