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| 2 (2006) winter wren
Painted Lady butterfly |
3 Robins (2002)
(2003) Doesn't seem much like spring now, just more winter! Snow, Snow, Snow. |
4 (2004) Robin
(2003) This morning we have about a foot on the ground and its still snowing! Cleared off the bird feeders and shoveled around so birds could still get to the seed in the feeders and on the ground. Its a tough time for them now, especially some of the migrants that have already returned. Keep the feeders going! (2002) Fox sparrow |
5 Chipmunk(1994) | 6 Mourning
Cloak(1993)
(2003) All told about 20" of snow! |
7 winter wren(1993) | 8 | |
| 9 (2005)
Comptom's Tortiseshell taking advantage of the sandy area by pumphouse
near Hudson River. So curiuos! Flitting around and checking us out.
(2003) Juncos, chickadees, nuthatches and one lonely robin at the feeders to day. Oh yes, of course the red squirrel too! |
10 (2005)
First winter wren, hermit thrush and red winged blackbird this season for
me
fox sparrow (1993) |
11 | 12 (2003) Buds on the red maples are getting ready to burst. One of the key features I use to tell red maples from sugar are the red, round buds on the red as opposed to slender, pointed buds on the sugar maple. At this time of year the red maple buds swell, as they prepare to flower (and you thought the trillium was the first flower!). Take a look, its easy to see now. | 13 (2003) First Great Blue Heron (that I've seen) Probably returning from over wintering somewhere along the Atlantic coast | 14 (2003) This kind of weather is more like it! 50's and sunshine. | 15
(2005) Coltsfoot blooming. Incredible weather; sunny, warmish days and
cool nights.
(2003) Chipping sparrow |
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| 16 (2005) kids scoping out the frog pond down the road every day, but last night pay dirt! Saw our first wood frog and that evening the first loan croak. | 17
(2005) Wood frog chorus and mourning cloak
(2004) First Woodcock |
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Painted Lady
(2003) First chorus of wood frogs this evening. A small vernal pool down the road fills first with wood frogs. Wood frogs who actually freeze solid during the winter are the first frogs to appear in icy pools. They will breed quickly and in large numbers then returning to the woods. Look for brownish frogs with a black robber's mask. Listen for a harsh croaking, a lot like geese. They don't spend too much time in their breeding pools so its a real treat to hear. |
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(2005) First Spring Peepers tonight!
(2004) Winter wren this morning, phoebe later and spring peepers started tonight (2003)
First chipmunk today! Chipmunks are not true hibernators but remain under
ground, relatively inactive but using the caches of food stored in their
burrow.
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(2003) Lots of things today. pair of eastern phoebes, painted lady butterfly.
All quite in the frog pond. Loads of eggs and all the wood frogs have returned to the woods. Winter Wren(1996) |
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| 23 Yellow-rumped, red-eye vireo, hermit thrush (1996) | 24 (2003) Coltsfoot blooming. Song Sparrow | 25
(2005)
Winter just will not leave snow accumulating in the morning. (2003) Hiked up the Calamity Brook trail from the Upper works to the suspension bridge. Lots of things to see. Tracks of fox, grouse, mice, red squirrel. Caught a fleeting glance of a flying squirrel. Icy vernal pools filled with wood frog eggs. Heard my first winter wren of the season. Trail follows a somewhat improved logging road that's graded with rock from the titanium mines. Find small flashes of iridescent labradorite in the anorothosite |
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(2003) Heard my first yellow rumped warbler today.
Some in Town say they have been back for awhile, but I haven't heard them
before now on my end of town.
Heard the drumming of ruffed grouse male. Listen for the low muffled thump, thump, thump that increases in frequency near the end. The thumping comes from the flapping of the wings as they stand, usually on a fallen log. |
27 (2003) wood and hermit thrush, red eyed vireo, white throated sparrow and spring peepers! | 28 (2003)As I was driving back from Johnsburg this evening I startled one of my all time favoraite signs of spring, the American woodcock or as we like to call it the timberdoodle. As I passed an open field I caught in the headlights the erratic downward tumbling flight of a male trying to attract a mate. | 29 | |
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