3-30
A Woolly Bear, the caterpillar of an Isabella Tiger moth, was on the move today. There are two generations a year of Woolly Bears and this one obviously overwintered.
And Shepherd's Purse is, in its very unspectacular way, starting to open flowers.
John
3-27
Whatever you think of them as wildflowers, weeds or vitamin rich pot herbs, Dandelions brighten places hostile to most other plants!
John
3-25
A lot of Painted Turtles were basking in the sun this afternoon, a Red Eft was out wandering and hordes of Snow Fleas, held up by surface tension, colored puddles a pale lavendar gray.
John
3-24
The tiny, brilliantly colored, female flowers of Beaked Hazelnut are opening in proximity to dangling male cones.
Heard a Woodcock peenting in the field tonight.
John
3-23
Red Dead Nettle (AKA Purple Dead Nettle) is starting to flower as is Mouse-ear Cress. Both are introduced species.
One Bloodroot also opened a flower today.
Not pictured: Silver Maple flowers and a Mourning Cloak Butterfly. Early butterflies feed on tree sap, carrion and scat.
John
3-22
Spring Whitlowgrass and Common chickweed are both flowering in idle cornfields. On sunny banks Myrtle is opening a few flowers.
John
3-17
In the swamps a few Pussy Willows are open. Crocuses dot one neighbor's lawn, while Snow Drops brighten another. And Colt's Foot is up along a sunny roadside bank.
John
3-16
A pair of Bald Eagles made a meal of road-killed skunk in a field near my house.
John
