4-14 Red Trillium, Spring Beauties

4-14 Red Trillium which has an array of other common names - has opened its first flowers.

Spring Beauties chose today to start brightening the woods.

An Angle-wing butterfly, perhaps a Gray Comma, fed happily on maple sap dripping from sapsucker wells.

Also seen: Belted Kingfisher along the West River. John