This morning, after an absence of almost two weeks*, I took a walk up the unmaintained section of Brimstone Corner Road just to see what was around.
Ode-wise, the most common species were still the “early birds”… Hudsonian whitefaces (yellow individuals only) and chalk-fronted corporals (of both sexes). The numbers were small about six whitefaces and a dozen corporals in the three miles I walked.
I also observed a single brown-grey damselfly (probably a female bluet of some sort) and a female racket-tailed emerald.
There were a number of other small critters about. That is, besides the black flies and the mosquitoes (although neither of these were present in numbers large enough to be bothersome). I saw two red efts and a small (about the length of the first joint of my thumb) wood frog. Small numbers of at least three species of butterflies and one moth were also out and about.
Plant-wise, the spring ephemerals (trillium, etc.) are gone but a number of small summer flowers are in bloom or just about to open up.
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* I spent ten days in Maryland visiting my mother who is in a rehab facility after breaking both a wrist and a hip.
Welcome home!
Trust your Mom’s rehab is going as well as expected.
Good selection of “Small Criters.”
Comment by Joe — 8 June 2018 @ 10:40 PM