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To all those interested in the natural world. Please add your sightings.

In the woods we return to reason and faith-Emerson

Best-Lynn

Sunday, April 9, 2017

4-9

4-9
Colt's Foot, Common Chickweed and Spring Whitlow Grass are all in flower.
An Osprey was soaring over the West River.
Wood Frogs were "quacking" in a meltwater pool near the Retreat Meadow pump station.
Phoebes were singing and investigating their traditional nest site under my barn.
And under a rock that I moved this morning there was a dense cluster of springtails (snow fleas). All were in a 2 inch diameter mass but dispersed somewhat before I took the picture. There were hundreds! Perhaps I had inadvertently unroofed their hibernaculum?
John
Colt's Foot

Common Chickweed

Whitlow Grass

Springtails

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