#CritterSpotting
Still blooming in the grass:
Yellow oxalis, couple spp
White clover
Lesser hop trefoil
Birdseye Speedwell
False hawksbeard
Dandelions
madder
Catchweed
Field pansies are done but you can see wrinkly petals hanging on
The bittercress is going to fruit
Oh, I didn't even do yesterdays #CritterSpotting
The one Atamasco lily was all--will the "usuals" open later?
Jack in the pulpits are just coming up
So are the lizard tails
That one stand of ladyslippers is going gangbusters... others haven't opened yet
Oak galls, fuzzy and otherwise
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Atamasco lily opened
Violet wood sorrel opened
Heard the barred owl... loud and close
Man that rabbit could run
Oleasters blooming
Viburnum done
... the terribly-invasive Wisteria is about done for the season, so now all the clumps of purple flowers I see along the woods at the side of the highway are from the terribly-invasive empress trees
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Well, the poison ivy is lush and abundant all of a sudden…
In related news, I have just added "wash the dog" to my to-do list on a busy day
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#CritterSpotting today:
Thalictrum looking older
Houstonia subjectively seems fewer
Still lots of V. bicolor
Lots of mayapples, but no flowering stems, even potential
More squirrels than the dog even saw
Buckeyes looking happier and happier
First tiny leaves on beautyberry
1/2
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Single mayapple leaves
Catchweeds, not blooming yet
Creeping charlie flowers are dense
Viburnum in stunning bloom (blackhaw?)
Spindles (Euonymus) are poking up looking spindly
Azaleas in full bloom
Buckeyes looking kinda stunning
Canada geese
#CritterSpotting from yesterday:
Coyote
Splashing thing (... two big splashes in the lake at night, but not a beaver slap, more of a sploosh)
Critterspotting from today:
Sweetgum pollen, dagnabbit
Tipularia leaves still up
Fringe flowers blooming
Little brown jug flowers open
Tiny oak leaves
Add'l #critterspotting from Sunday:
Flock of tiger swallowtails by the creek
The jessamine
Red shouldered hawk @ Dad's house
Flowering cherry tree starting to bloom
Mayapples, Andersonglossum, jumpseed sprouting leaves
Ladyslippers, puttyroot, and Tipularia orchids all w/ leaves!
Evening #CritterSpotting
Lots more Thalictrum
Heard a woodpecker... sounded like a big guy but I didn't see him
Still seeing Tipularia leaves
Fiddleheads on Christmas ferns
Painted buckeye flowers opening
SQUIRRELS ^dog
I think the pinxter back by the creek is dead ) :
Lunchtime #CritterSpotting
Azaleas budding
Tulips blooming
Forsythia leafing out/done blooming
Redbuds glorious
Buffleheads still here
Lots of V. bicolor and H. pusilla
Today's #CritterSpotting
Osprey out circling around
Dogwoods starting to bloom (C. florida)
Red deadnettles are pretty happy
Woodrushes doing their thing
First white clover flowers
Thalictrum and springbeauties in the woods
Surprised a pair of mallards at the creek
Other #CritterSpotting today
Violet oxalis leaves (no flowers)
Buckeyes putting on flowers
Beeches still have last fall's leaves, but forming spring buds
Escapee(?) snowflake
Thalictrum and Hepatica flowers
And
No creek water for doggo!
Today's #CritterSpotting
Tiger swallowtail (first I've seen, wife said she saw 1 before)
Red deadnettle
False strawberry
Azure bluets
Tiny bluets
LOTS of field pansies
Clumps of wood violets
Mazus
Pears and redbuds blooming
Little violet flower, white w purple threads and a yellow middle
White and purple violet flower poking up from between patio pavers
Lil bitty grape hyacinth inflorescences poking up from the leaf litter
Oh right... yesterday's #CritterSpotting included a bunch of light morph meadow violets (V. sororia) and the grape hyacinth started blooming... unrelated to the actual hyacinth near it ( :
Today's #CritterSpotting
Two species of violets blooming (V. bicolor and V. sororia)
Redbuds red budding
Goose and duck up to no good. (Is... is he buying quack?)
Trifoliate orange is blooming
Bunch of buzzards wheeling around
Tiny bluets
Crows in earshot
Wind, now rain
Today in #CritterSpotting
Clematis is blooming
Hyacinths just opened
Crocus is done
Trifoliate orange is budding
Trout lilies are blooming... in abundance
Squirrels
...it was a bat, btw. Then there was a duck.
In other #CritterSpotting , the bluets are blooming, the Tipularia still had leaves up, saucer magnolia are finishing, buckeyes leafing out, pears budding, chickweed spp abundant, and I can feel the pollen starting...
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Today in #critterspotting I thought I saw a pickerel frog when I took the doggo down to the creek before work.
This evening I definitely hear them! And the toads, and the spring peepers...
Also: saucer magnolia must be near its peak, daffodils loving life, buckeye leaves starting
this PM (ok, last PM bc it's midnight), a neighbor sent a voice-memo text asking what was making a noise in a tree in my yard
reader, it's a spring peeper... does that count as #CritterSpotting ?
also henbit deadnettle, springbeauty, buffleheads, vinca, and the red shouldered hawks making a ruckus
Good day for #CritterSpotting
2 bald eagles
2 otters
18 double breasted cormorants
About 9 buffleheads
Crow
Yesterday morning's #critterspotting :
2x bald eagles
2x great blue herons
Bunch of buffleheads
Mallard hen
This morning's:
4x crows
4-5 Canada geese
Several double breasted cormorants
Several buffleheads around the lake
Red shouldered hawk on the wing
Today's #critterspotting -- good day for birds before lunch
2 pr mallards
A half doz stray buffleheads
Little over a dozen cormorants
Half dozen Canada geese
Great blue heron
Buzzards
Heard the red shouldered hawk... two, I think? Do they call to their mates?
Today's #critterspotting
- One (1) blue violet blooming
- Mistletoe has put on berries
- various nonnative hollies are full of berries too
Good morning for #CritterSpotting
3+ dozen buffleheads
At least half a dozen cormorants
Eagle
4 NEIGHBOR DOGS!!!1!
There are about three dozen buffleheads on the lake this morning.
This Monday there were about six dozen buffleheads and half a dozen canada geese.
Last Friday night the beaver was here
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#WeirdDuckTime
Good morning to the buffleheads out fishing for their Thanksgiving dinner!
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#WeirdDuckTime
... now with better lighting ...
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Out my window this morning
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