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May 27, 2020


Red-spotted Purple Caterpillar

Notes and Changes since last report

  • It was 82°F, partly cloudy with light winds at 1:30 PM on May 27, 2020.
  • This week's trail report covers the Wappinger Creek Trail side of the trail system.
  • Our first temperatures in the 80s made the shade more appealing than the sun today.
  • But it did bring out more new butterflies. See the list below.

The Trails

  • The oaks were finally leafing out at the Gifford House trailhead.
  • The trails were being mowed this day.
  • Spittle bugs were back in the bedstraws.
  • Off the side of the path, dame's rocket, an invasive imitator of phlox, was blooming from white to purple.
  • Lower to the ground, wild geranium was blooming but with a more uniform color.
  • In the back corner, the viburnum, nannyberry, was in flower.
  • Out in the sun, common milkweed was about knee high. This is famous as monarch baby food.
  • Things were getting taller in the Sedge Meadow.
  • And the namesake fertile fronds of cinnamon fern were appearing now.
  • In the back Old Hayfield, invasive olive was white with blossoms.
  • A sniff of one cluster will verify it's the source of the sweet smell in the air.
  • Scanning across the field revealed something low and yellow.
  • Zooming in proved it to be golden Alexanders.
  • In the back of the field was a funky smell. It was common barberry, another invasive barberry but from Europe.
  • There was a white sprinkle in the leaves across the field in the other corner.
  • Our native flowering dogwood was flowering.
  • The heat had everything on the move today. A yellow-bellied sapsucker was the only bird that would allow a photo.
  • Fortunately the clouds were slow enough to photo.
  • The Wappinger Creek Trail promised shade for the rest of the walk.
  • Near the Watershed kiosk, false Soloman's seal was starting to bloom.
  • Louisianna waterthrush was playing hide and seek along the creek banks.
  • Aniseroot wasn't moving too fast... when the wind died down.
  • Parsely family was as far as I could get for a while given the typical leaf and flower.
  • Invasive narrow-leaved bittercress is relatively new to our area.
  • The clasping auricle at the base of the leaf stem distinguishes it from similar species. It is very satisfying to pull.
  • At the beginning of the Cary Pines Trail, a little beech was missing a few leaves. Instead, there was a caterpillar of the red-spotted purple (butterfly). It is known as a bird dropping mimic, but could that be a fake snake face at the end of the abdomen?
  • Next week: The Cary Pines Trail side of the trail system.

Sightings

Birds
  • 3 Turkey Vulture
  • 1 Mourning Dove
  • 3 Chimney Swift
  • 1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
  • 1 Pileated Woodpecker
  • 2 Eastern Wood-Pewee
  • 3 Eastern Phoebe
  • 1 Great Crested Flycatcher
  • 1 Eastern Kingbird
  • 2 Warbling Vireo
  • 5 Red-eyed Vireo
  • 5 Blue Jay
  • 2 Tree Swallow
  • 2 Black-capped Chickadee
  • 1 Tufted Titmouse
  • 2 House Wren
  • 1 Veery
  • 1 Wood Thrush
  • 5 American Robin
  • 4 Gray Catbird
  • 1 European Starling
  • 2 Blue-winged Warbler
  • 1 Yellow Warbler
  • 1 Chestnut-sided Warbler
  • 2 Prairie Warbler
  • 2 Louisiana Waterthrush
  • 1 Common Yellowthroat
  • 2 Scarlet Tanager
  • 3 Eastern Towhee
  • 1 Chipping Sparrow
  • 1 Field Sparrow
  • 3 Song Sparrow
  • 1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak
  • 1 Red-winged Blackbird
  • 3 Baltimore Oriole
  • 1 American Goldfinch
Butterflies
  • 1 Spicebush Swallowtail
  • 1 Cabbage White
  • 1 Clouded Sulphur
  • 1 Spring Azure
  • 8 Pearl Crescent
  • 3 Little Wood-Satyr
  • 9 Common Ringlet
  • 2 Silver-spotted Skipper
Moths
  • 1 White-banded toothed carpet
Caterpillars
  • 1 Red-spotted Purple
Insects
  • 1 Spittlebug
Plants
  • 1 Aniseroot
  • 1 Common barberry
  • 1 Dame's rocket
  • 1 False Solomon's-seal
  • 1 Flowering dogwood
  • 1 Nannyberry
  • 1 Narrow-leaved bittercress
  • 1 Olive
  • 1 Wild geranium