January |
February |
Early March |
Late March |
Mid April |
Late April |
May |
June |
Observations:
Blooms: Fleabane, ash tree, cinquefoil, whorled loosestrife (bud), Japanese Honeysuckle, Columbine bud Other: Mockingbird singing all its songs, oriole, tiger swallowtail. Bluebird couple taking turns feeding babies in box. Fighting off house sparrows. |
Observations:
Blooms: Whorled loosestrife, Dog rose, Autumn olive, Jewelweed beginning to bloom, Oxeye daisy, Fleabane, Blue eyed grass bloom and pods, Yarrow, Lance leaf coreopsis, Elderberry, Moneywort Other: Sedges at peak, Honeysuckle berries ripe, Rushes, Dark Green bulrush, Very muddy alt trail, Blackberries forming |
July |
August |
Observations:
Blooms: Dogbane, milkweed, blue vervain, queen Anne's lace, enchanter's nightshade, bluets, bee balm, st john's wort, monkey flower, boneset (bud), bull thistle (bud), bramble fruit ripe, nutsedge, Joe pye weed, sweet Joe pye weed (in the woods), Ironweed bud Other: Small orange fungi, luna moth wings 3of4, hickory trees heavy with mast |
Observations:
Blooms: Goldenrod, ragweed, boneset, monkey flower, ironweed, nutsedge, Joe pye weed, obedient plant, new England aster, tick trefoil of sorts, jewel weed still blooming Other: Elderberries are ripe, Canada thistle in fluff, mantis eating tiger swallowtail, red dragonfly, tree mast falling, squirrels have chewed up most of the mast (signifies a mild winter?), mud nests on goldenrod have hatched, jack o lantern mushrooms growing in large cluster, ducks no longer afraid of people, |
September |
October |
Observations:
Asters are starting to turn white |
Observations:
Asters are nearing their end White lettuce has round fluffy seed pods. Solomon's plume fruits are still red and plump. Aspen leaves are brown and fallen, tree getting bare bu still some hold on. Tupelo faintly turning, a few bold colored leaves on the ground. Red belly hammering on trees by benches in wooded paved area. Seems like the red bellied were gone all summer, only the past week have I seen them at the home feeders. Lots of good size maples - Majority of trees are maples dotted with oversized oaks? The squirrels seem to be building large nests in the oak trees with the oak leaves (something to do with the size? Tannins? bugs or lack of? On the border where there are more hickories the squirrels are nesting there too. Goldenrod is done blooming, now turning to fluff. Boneset is all dark gray fluff. Monkey flower is in seed. Knocked a mantis off one of the last blooming aster plants. Snakeroot finishing, starting to fluff. Multiflora fruit ripening. New additional parking area looks nice. Bittersweet is beginning to fruit - still in yellow casing. Hickory leaves are starting to turn yellow, all others are still very green. |
November 6Observations:
Majority of leaves down Still holding are oaks and understory maples. Few inner forest hickories are still holding leaves. One shagbark hickory is without leaves but full of ripe mast. ~Cat tails in fall hold the memory of summer, listen closely and you can almost hear the reading blackbird calling from the reeds~ Heavy chipmunk chuts echo through the woods. Goldfinches in winter plumage. Mockingbird hopping around. |
November 15Observations: SNOW!
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