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May 25, 2022


Swamp Azalea

Notes and Changes since last report

  • It was 71°F, partly cloudy with light breezes on May 25, 2022.
  • The major trails had been freshly mowed.
  • Returning butterflies included little wood-satyr, common ringlet and zabulon skipper.
  • This week's trail report covers the Cary Pines Trail side of the trail system.

The Trails

  • Today's walk started down the Carriage House drive.
  • A surprise was an American lady on the creeping Charlie among the nettles.
  • With some patience an unobstructed view of the top side was obtained.
  • Farther ahead flowering shrubs came into view.
  • Only recently did I find out beauty bush is considered invasive.
  • Just past it buckeye was blooming.
  • It looked like the fothergilla had been blooming for a while and was on the way out.
  • Hiding around the corner was rhododendron - that was looking really good.
  • A right turn after the Carriage House sent the path down the Scots Pine Allée.
  • Overhead, a prarie warbler was calling.
  • Below, a little wood-satyr paused in the sun.
  • The prairy ringlet seems to bear little resemblance, but in flight, the two can be tricky, having similar shape, size, and behavior.
  • A left turn continued along the edge of the Little Bluestem Meadow.
  • In the hedgerow nannyberry was blooming.
  • A right turn led into the Old Gravel Pit, where a large colony of hay-scented fern seemed to induce vertigo with its strict geometry.
  • The trail emerged above the Fern Glen at the Norway Spruce Glade.
  • Several Zabulon skippers were interacting.
  • Warm sun and cool air ensured views from above as well as below.
  • Between some branches, an enormous caddisfly was resting.
  • Out in the open, beardtongue was thriving on the hot, dry, sandy hillside.
  • Down by the parking area there was color off to the side.
  • Invasive dame's rocket has only four petals compared to the five of phlox.
  • On the other side of the road, herb-Robert was blooming everywhere.
  • False Solomon's seal could be found in a number of locations.
  • Some Jack-in-the-pulpits were quite large this year.
  • We have one or two patches of common alumroot.
  • The flower is like miterwort on steroids.
  • On the way back to the fen was a red trillium leaf bigger than a dinner plate.
  • Off the boardwalk through the fen, poison sumac was barely beginning to leaf out.
  • At the base, royal fern was easy to recognize.
  • On the other side of the walkway, Labrador tea was blooming.
  • Around the bend, our native limber honeysuckle had opened.
  • The main trail continued towards the back of the 'Glen.
  • On the downhill side, true Solomon's seal looked like it had been blooming a while already.
  • Pink lady's slipper is part of our phenology trail, a national effort to document seasonal behavior of selected plants.
  • Wild sarsaparilla looks like ash seedlings or maybe even poison ivy...
  • ... except they don't have flowers like these .
  • Around the bend, Yellow lady's slipper was looking the best it ever had.
  • Nearby, a little day-flying moth, the white-striped black had to have only just emerged: the black background was still iridescent and a metallic silver dusting floated upon it.
  • Pink glared through the swamp behind it: Japanese primrose. This invasive crops up every year.
  • Around the corner, little native twinflower was out in small numbers.
  • Water speedwell doesn't look like much.
  • But its tiny flowers do deserve a closer look.
  • Near the kiosk, swamp azalea was sparse this year, but always handsome.
  • Out at the front of the pond, river birch stood in the sun.
  • The exfoliating bark had just the right light.
  • Back out on the Cary Pines Trail, Canada mayflower was blooming in such abundance that there was actually a fragrance in the air.
  • A gray squirrel had been observing my photography yoga.
  • The hemlocks at the Appendix were full of bird activity.
  • Several eastern wood-pewees were racing around, only lighting occasionally.
  • Just as the trail dropped to the floodplain, narrow-leaved bittercress had been flowering.
  • This easy-to-pull invasive can be distinguised from similar species by its clasping auricles where leaves meet stem.
  • Next week: the Wappinger Creek Trail the side of the trail system.

Sightings

Birds
  • 1 Red-tailed Hawk
  • 2 Mourning Dove
  • 1 Chimney Swift
  • 1 Pileated Woodpecker
  • 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee
  • 1 Eastern Phoebe
  • 1 Yellow-throated Vireo
  • 3 Red-eyed Vireo
  • 3 Blue Jay
  • 1 Common Raven
  • 1 Tree Swallow
  • 1 House Wren
  • 3 Veery
  • 3 American Robin
  • 4 Gray Catbird
  • 3 European Starling
  • 2 Pine Warbler
  • 1 Prairie Warbler
  • 1 Ovenbird
  • 1 Common Yellowthroat
  • 2 Scarlet Tanager
  • 2 Eastern Towhee
  • 1 Field Sparrow
  • 1 Song Sparrow
  • 2 Northern Cardinal
  • 1 Red-winged Blackbird
  • 2 Common Grackle
  • 1 Baltimore Oriole
Insects
  • 1 Caddisfly
Butterflies
  • 1 Cabbage White
  • 2 American Copper
  • 3 Pearl Crescent
  • 1 American Lady
  • 7 Little Wood-Satyr
  • 7 Common Ringlet
  • 2 Zabulon Skipper
Moths
  • 1 White-striped black
Plants
  • 1 Beardtongue
  • 1 Beauty bush
  • 1 Buckeye
  • 1 Canada mayflower
  • 1 Common alumroot
  • 1 Dame's rocket
  • 1 False Solomon's-seal
  • 1 Fothergilla
  • 1 Herb-Robert
  • 1 Japanese primrose
  • 1 Labrador tea
  • 1 Limber honeysuckle
  • 1 Pink lady's-slipper
  • 1 Rhododendron
  • 1 Solomon's-seal
  • 1 Swamp azalea
  • 1 Water speedwell
  • 1 Wild sarsaparilla
  • 1 Yellow lady's-slipper