5-31 White Campion

5-31
White Campion, English Plantain and Silvery Cinquefoil are all starting to flower.
John

White Campion

English Plantain

Silvery Cinquefoil

5-30 Stitchwort

5-30
Stitchwort slouches against any nearby grasses and weeds, and in cool swampy areas the little, almost skeletal flowers of Mountain Holly are open.
John

Stitchwort

Mountain Holly

5-29 Hairy False Solomon's Seal

5-29
Hairy False Solomon's Seal and Yellow Hawkweed are among the day's flowerings.
A raft of brick red Springtails (AKA Snow Fleas) formed atop a mud puddle this morning.
John

Hairy False Solomon's Seal

Yellow Hawkweed

Springtails

5-28 Goat's Beard

5-28

Goat's Beard and Ox-eye Daisy are in flower.

John

Goat's Beard

Ox-eye Daisy

5-27 Blue-eyed Grass

5-27
Blue-eyed Grass is cropping up in old fields.
Parasitic One-flowered Cancerroot favors the edges of those same fields.
John

Blue-eyed Grass

One-flowered Cancerroot

5-26 White Clover

5-26
White Clover is in the process of opening florettes.
The four petals of Dame's Rocket mark it as a member of the mustard family.
Tall cinquefoil has opened a few of its uncharacteristic white flowers.
John

White Clover

Dame's Rocket

Tall Cinquefoil

5-25 Round-leaved Ragwort

5-25
Round-leaved Ragwort, Common Flax and Dwarf Dandelion are all flowering.
John

Round-leaved Ragwort

Common Flax

Dwarf Dandelion

5-24 Painted Turtle

5-24
A Painted Turtle was crossing Quarry Rd this morning.
Tall Buttercups and Herb Robert are in flower.
John

Painted Turtle

Tall Buttercup

Herb Robert

5-23 White Baneberry

5-23
White Baneberry, AKA Doll's Eyes, are in flower, Chervil is cropping up along roadsides, and Low- running Blackberry is starting its season.
John

White Baneberry

Chervil

Low-running Blackberry

5-22 Primrose-leaved Violet

5-22
A Primrose-leaved Violet and a few Bunchberries were in flower this morning.
The color and texture of newly emerged Maple-leaved Viburnum leaves make them an eye-catching component of edges and thickets.
John

Primrose-leaved Violet

Bunchberry

Maple-leaved Viburnum

Bear on the East-West Road

Whit Wheeler met a bear in his driveway at 7:45 a.m. (near Partridge Road).
The bear turned around, ambled across the East-West Road, and down the hill toward Salmon Brook.

5-21 Moccasin Flower

5-21
Pink Moccasin flower.
Wild Madder and Yellow Wood Sorrel are among the day's flowerings.
John

Pink Moccasin

Wild Madder

Yellow Wood-sorrel

5-20 Wild Azalea

5-20
Wild Azalea and Star-flowered Solomon's Seal are among today's flowerings.
John

Wild Azalea

Star-flowered Solomon's Seal

5-19 Pale Corydalis

5-91
The colorful little flowers of Pale Corydalis are open and common spring moths are on the wing.
John

Pale Corydalis

spring moth

5-18 Tower Mustard

5-18
The pale yellow four-petaled flowers of Tower Mustard are opening.
And Dryad's Saddle, AKA Pheasant's Back Polypore, adorns rotting logs.
John

Tower Mustard

Dryad's Saddle

5-17 Indigo Bunting

5-17
Indigo Buntings are visiting our bird feeders and Tartarian Honeysuckle is starting to flower.
John

Indigo Bunting

Tartarian Honeysuckle

5-16 Fringed Polygala

5-15
The unusual little flowers of Fringed Polygala lend color to roadside banks.
John

5-15 Cinquefoil

5-15
Common Cinquefoil is opening a galaxy of its little golden flowers.
John

5-14 Mosquito

5-14
This morning at Sunset Lake, with temperatures in the 30's and an inch of snow on the ground, barn swallows plucked emerging mosquitos off the water's surface !
On shore Leatherleaf was starting to flower.
John

mosquito emerging

Leatherleaf

5-12 Wild Sarsaparilla

5-12
Wild Sarsaparilla's umbels of greenish white flowers are opening.
John

5-11 Dogwood

5-11
Flowering Dogwood's big showy flowers are opening.
Foam Flower lives up to its name growing in areas wit a little extra moisture.
A Red Admiral was awing.
Last fall's Barometer Earthstar fungi - which open their rays when moist and close them when dry - are as eye catching as they were 6 moths ago.
John

Dogwood blossom

Dogwood blossoms

Foam Flower

Red Admiral

Barometer Earthstar fungi

5-10 Nodding Chickweed

5-10
Nodding Chickweed is in flower.
John

5-9 Wood Betony

5-9
Wood Betony is starting to open a few flowers while Low Bush Blueberries are flowering profusely.
John

Wood Betony

Low Bush Blueberry