3-31

3-31
Gill-over-the-ground (AKA Ground Ivy and Creeping Charlie) is opening a few flowers. A Box Elder bug was visiting this one.
Common Chickweed is also flowering.
John

3-30

3-30
Today a few Blood Roots were open along Green Mountain Camp Rd. and as I was taking this picture, a Mourning Cloak butterfly flitted past.
John

3-24

3-24
I took this picture in the cornfield at Dummerston Landing.
In this one shot there re - I would guess - at least 100 stems of Draba verna AKA Spring Whitlow-grass, an introduced species. I counted over 2 dozen flowers per plant. The area pictured is small, it's between 2 rows of corn stubble, however a large portion of the field is is carpeted. Perhaps acres. There must be millions of plants: tens of millions of flowers!
Yet all you notice from a few feet away is a pinkish tinge to the ground. Individually they are minute. Collectively they are phenomenal!
It's worth seeing.
John
Phoebes are back in the area. I've seen 2 in recent days. Sorry, no pics.

3-22

3-22
Today, on a sun-warmed  ledge, Saxifrage opened a few flowers and in a nearby thicket the tiny twisted crimson styles of female Beaked Hazel flowers punctuated twigs lined with drab male catkins.
John

Chickadee

3-21
This odd little chickadee -  a Black-capped in name only - was identified and photographed by Susan Daigler of West Dummerston.

3-17

3-17
Today a few Myrtle flowers are open.
John

3-11

3-11
Whitlow-grass is opening its tiny, white, four-petaled flowers.
John

3-10

3-10
Today, down at ground level, under the leaf cover, a few Hepatica flowers had opened.
In a local ditch Colt's Foot was up and open for business.
And under my feeders, a Fox Sparrow scratched for sunflower seeds.
John

Hepatica

Colt's Foot