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Just a few more things Steve and I found while on Skyline looking at the Serviceberry from a previous post. Black Oak (Quercus velutina) Post Oak (Quercus stellata) Shorleaf Pine (Pinus echinata) Southern Black Haw (Viburnum rufidulum) Hoary Puccoon (Lithospermum canescens) Cinquefoil (Potentilla simplex) Everyone, I think, is familiar with the bloom of the serviceberry or shadbush tree (Amelanchier arborea.) But most probably do what I do and put them out of there mind after the bloom is gone. But, as I discovered today when I took the photo below, they really do have berries. I wasn’t really [...] It’s Monday, so that means I spent my lunch hour walking around Watercress. I found a few new blooms including American Bladdernut (Staphylea trifolia,) Mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum) and (Lyre-leaf Sage (Salvia lyrata.) But the find of the day came from under a log along the spring branch. A Rove Beetle for sure, I believe to be Philonthus politus. [...] When Dayna and I left the house this morning, the plan was to go to an out of the way spot on Rogers Creek and catch and photograph a few fish. We did end up doing that – and I’ll cover that in a separate post tonight or tomorrow – but we found so [...] A few minutes spent wandering about the yard turned up a freshly bloomed Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida,) a “puddling” female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus,) a male Common Baskettail (Epitheca cynosura) – a new record for me at this property – and a predatory fly (robber fly probably, but can’t really tell) with it’s lunch. When I [...] |
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