Friday, April 29, 2011

April Update

4/29
Dandelions
Violets blooming!

Maple trees leafed out
Catbird!

4/27
Ruby throated hummingbird!
American kestral
Bat at pond
Red fox!

Baby goslings at the pond
American toad
Gray tree frogs
Owl

4/26
Dragonfly!
Giant Water Bug!
Predacious Diving Beetle!

Gray tree frogs!
Bull frog!
Green frogs!
American toad!
Black rat snake
Baby painted turtels!!

Quince bushes flowering
May Apple foliage
Jack in the pulpit
Canada mayflower
Dogwood blooming
Tamarac's have needles

4/25
Dandelions!
Cherry trees blossoming
Bald eagles
Red shouldered hawks
Red tailed hawks
Geese on the ponds
Wood duck at wood duck swamp
Turkeys behind pond - including a bearded hen!
Deer, deer, everywhere
Red-efts
Bunnies
Opossoms and raccoons
Painted turtles sunning themselves on warm days


4/20
Forsithya blooming

4/14
Garter snake
Bloodroot flowers blooming!

4/11
Cowbird at feeder
male and female Wood ducks at swamp
Bunny rabbit
Goldfinches!
Black throated blue warbler!

4/10
Coltsfoot blooming along roadsides
Tree swallows!
Daffodils blooming - only a few
2 kingfishers at pond
Pickerel frog at swamp

4/9
Trillium and Trout Lily - foliage only, no flowers yet

4/8
Huge gobbler on Emery Road
Common mergansers and canada geese on Front Pond

4/7
Coltsfoot!!
Great Blue Heron!
Red-winged blackbird!
2 male wood ducks at swamp

4/6
Forsithya buds showing.
Honey suckle leaves BARELY emerging.
Red maple buds showing.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

March update:

3/19
Beaver on Front Pond.
Cowbirds and phoebes are back on campus.
Woodcocks
Snow fleas
Skunk Cabbage

Salamander search results: 50+ red spotted newts; 20 red backed salamanders; 23 dusky salamanders; 3 two lined salamanders; 2 tadpoles; 1 freezing cold green frog


3/20
Sunny, blue skies. SPRING EQUINOX!


3/21
3-4" snow overnight
2 canada geese and 2 mallards at swamp


3/27
three bald eagles
hawks
robins, ravens and crows


3/29
Hepatica and dutchmans breeches at Zimmerman Farms (foliage, but no flowers yet)

Bear scat at the knoll house


3/30
Turkey tracks by vernal pool
Masses of amphibian eggs in vernal pool


3/31
Spring peepers
Woodcocks
Canada Geese
Wild turkeys - gobbling each night on lower campus

Honeysuckle leaves are starting to unfurl
Red maple buds are turning the hillsides a dull red


4/1
Wood duck
Mallards
Woodcocks

1-2" of snow overnight


4/2
Turkeys gobbling


4/4
Common mergansers on front pond