Wildflowers 2018

6/10/18 Blandford Nature Center:
White: Blackberries, Daisies, Yarrow
Yellow: Cinquefoil - but is it native Potentilla gracilis (Slender) or the invasive recta (Sulfur)? Good description and images at https://cascadiaprairieoak.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Sulphur-Cinquefoil-Identification.pdf
non-natives: Multiflora rose (invasive!), Goatsbeard

5/23/18 Aman Park:
White Baneberry
Red Baneberry
Trillium (dying)
Mayapples
Canada Violets
False Rue Anemone

Wild Ginger

Wild Geranium

Wild Blue Phlox (Phlox divaricata)
Virginia Bluebells

Buttercups
Winter Cress (non-native, Burbarea vulgaris, aka Yellow rocket, mustard family Brassicaceae) https://virginiawildflowers.org/2015/05/09/yellow-rocket/


5/15/18  Blandford Nature Center:
wild strawberries
Mayapples
Jacks in the Pulpit

5/7/18  Blandford Nature Center:
Downy yellow violets

5/5/18  Blandford Nature Center:
Wild Geranium

5/2/18  Blandford Nature Center:
Blue Cohosh
False Rue Anemones
Wild Leeks
Marsh Marigolds
Mayapples budded
Canada Violet (white)

garter snake

5/1/18 Aman Park:
Bloodroots
Cut-leaved Toothwort
Dutchman's Breeches
Wood Anemone
Hepatica (so blue this year!)
Spring Beauties
Pink Spring Cress (Cardamine douglassii)
Trillium
Trout Lilies
Common Violets

non-natives:
Leafy Spurge
Myrtle


4/22/18
Blandford Nature Center: violets, 1st dandelion

3/2/18
While not wildflowers, the Snowdrops are blooming!

Birding 2018

12/2/18, home:
Red-breasted nuthatches! Tiny, fluttery, fierce!

8/9/18, home:
3 Chipping Sparrow chicks in the driveway - so tiny, fluffy, cute!

7/31/18, south of Akron, Ohio:
Passed a Great Blue Heron rookery and saw 2 flying adults.

7/24/18-7/30/18, Millboro Springs, VA:
Carolina Wrens, Black and White Warbler, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Indigo Buntings, Black-billed Cuckoos and Screech Owl (heard), phoebes, cardinals, robins, turkey vultures, titmice, chickadees, mourning doves, crows.

7/22/18-7/23/18, Peaks of Otter, VA:
Catbirds, Red-winged Blackbirds, Carolina Wrens all around the Lodge!

6/21/18,  Blandford Nature Center: 
Bluebird
Catbirds

5/20/18, home, Dimondale, traveling between:
2 Chipping Sparrows, 2 Sandhill Cranes, 2 Great Blue Herons flying

5/17/18, home:
Amy saw the female Rose-breasted Grosbeak again a couple of times

5/15/18, Blandford Nature Center: 
Bluebird

5/8/18, home:
female Rose-breasted Grosbeak

5/7/18,  Blandford Nature Center:
Catbird (heard call)
White-throated Sparrows (heard call)
Hermit Thrush

5/5/18,  Blandford Nature Center:
White-throated Sparrows

5/2/18, Blandford Nature Center:
Wren (House, Winter, or Sedge?)

Home:
Hermit Thrush
Rose-breasted Grosbeak

4/20/18
Phoebes are back.

mid-March 2018
Turkey vultures are back.

3/4/18
Heard a Sandhill Crane although I couldn't see it!

3/1/18 spring birds returning:
Red-winged Blackbirds
Robins
European Starlings