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--Boundary_(ID_8e+Gu088T0sMbsycZuXOAg) Content-type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Nancy Nickerson quickly added these notes to our previous notes. =20 Thanks, Nancy! from Jim in Wolfville. Begin forwarded message: > From: Nancy Nickerson <nicknl@ns.sympatico.ca> > Date: July 1, 2009 5:32:59 PM ADT > To: "'James W. Wolford'" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca>, 'Melanie =20 > Priesnitz' <melanie.priesnitz@acadiau.ca>, 'Harold Forsyth' =20 > <harold.forsyth@ns.sympatico.ca> > Subject: RE: June 30/09 Nature Counts walk at Irving Ctr./Woodland =20 > Trails > > Additional notes on the fungi from the June 30/09 Nature Counts walk: > > The stalked polypore on the log was the Blackfoot Polypore or =20 > Elegant Polypore (Polyporus varius). > The colony of erect tan fungal fingers on a log was the Clublike =20 > Tuning Fork (Calocera cornea), a jelly fungus. > The flat white slime mold on wood was one of the two varieties of =20 > the Coral Slime (Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa var.porioides). > I also collected an =93oyster mushroom=94 on a poplar trunk, and =20 > identified it as the Aspen Oyster (Pleurotus populinus). > According to my notes, these are the first records of Calocera =20 > cornea, Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa var. porioides and Pleurotus =20 > populinus in the Nature Counts database. The previous record of =20 > Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa in the database was var. fruticulosa. > > During a visit to the Trails this morning (July 1) I saw a pair of =20 > blue-headed vireos chasing a blue jay near the Norway spruce =20 > forest. I=92m not sure if blue-headed vireo is already in the =20 > database. If not, it can be added. > > Cheers, > > Nancy > > From: James W. Wolford [mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca] > Sent: July 1, 2009 3:58 PM > To: Melanie Priesnitz; Harold Forsyth; Nancy Nickerson; Jim Wolford > Subject: June 30/09 Nature Counts walk at Irving Ctr./Woodland Trails > > Please send along any additions or corrections to Melanie and the =20 > rest of us. Thanks to Harold for the notes. Jim > ---------------------------- > > JUNE 30, 2009 - NATURE COUNTS weekly evening biodiversity walk at =20 > the Irving Botanical Gardens (BG) and Woodland Trails (WT), Acadia =20 > University. > > Sunny, partly cloudy, and warm and muggy -- 23 C. We had four =20 > participants: Nancy Nickerson, Harold Forsyth, Karla Kuklis?, and =20 > myself, Jim Wolford. Also Wade Coldwell joined us briefly. Noboday =20 > led, and we just very slowly walked first in the Gardens and then =20 > some of the Woodland Trails, with Harold volunteering to write down =20= > some highlight notes. > > PLANTS IN BLOOM: bush honeysuckle (BG), Canada anemone(BG), wild =20 > rose sp. (BG), multiflora rose(BG & WT), sheep laurel or lambkill =20 > (BG & WT), partridgeberry (Mitchella repens)(BG), buttercup spp.? =20 > (tall? buttercup and creeping? buttercup)(BG&WT), common speedwell =20 > (Veronica officinalis)(BG&WT), raspberry (BG), mouse-eared? =20 > hawkweed (BG), narrow-leaved cattail (shedding pollen)(BG), blue or =20= > cow vetch (BG&WT), another vetch (slender vetch?) with tiny bluish =20 > flowers (BG), common bedstraw (WT), garden lupine (BG&WT), three-=20 > toothed cinquefoil (BG), large bog cranberry (BG), harebell (BG), =20 > yellow hop clover (BG), oxeye daisy (BG&WT), blue-eyed grass (BG), =20 > an unknown species of Penstemon? (gray? or hairy?)(BG)=20 > (Scrophulariaceae)(has been blooming for over a week or perhaps two =20= > weeks?), ragged Robin (just a few left now)(BG), tall meadow rue=20 > (BG), common yarrow (BG&WT), stitchwort (chickweed)(BG), water =20 > hemlock (BG), garden valerian or wild heliotrope (BG&WT), showy =20 > lady's-slippers still with a few old flowers (BG), red clover =20 > (BG&WT), white clover (BG&WT), spreading dogbane (BG), a tall =20 > fleabane sp. (BG), bog huckleberry (at its best)(BG), swamp candles =20= > (BG), common elderberry (BG), goutweed (the variegated form along =20 > the Woodland Trails is not in bloom or much less so than the =20 > ordinary goutweed)(WT), nipplewort (WT), prickly wild lettuce (with =20= > yellow flowers)(thistle-like leaves)(WT), dock sp. (Rumex)(WT), =20 > moneywort (WT), privet (WT), Montague? lily (one plant, almost in =20 > flower)(WT), orange hawkweed (WT), blackberry (WT)(not many flowers =20= > left), bittersweet or nightshade (WT), glossy buckthorn (WT), black =20= > knapweed (WT) (newly in flower), common bedstraw (WT), bulrush sp. =20 > (WT)(Scirpus), wild radish (WT)(just one seen). > > ROADSIDE PLANTS (Univ. Ave.): bristly locust in bloom, common St. =20 > John's-wort in bloom, white sweet clover in bloom, goat's-beard =20 > (mature fruits), bird's-foot trefoil in bloom, rabbit's-foot clover =20= > in bloom, heal-all in bloom, Timothy grass (Phleum) in bloom, =20 > orchard grass (Dactylis) in bloom, other grasses unidentifiable, =20 > evening primrose (just a few in bloom), pineappleweed in bloom. > > PLANTS WITH FLOWER-BUDS: white Joe-Pye-weed (with something eating =20 > the leaves)(BG), jewelweed or touch-me-not (Impatiens)(BG), swamp =20 > milkweed (BG), shinleaf or whitish-flowered pyrola (WT)(almost in =20 > flower). > > PLANTS IN FRUIT: "shadbush" (Amelanchier sp.)(BG), bayberry with =20 > very young fruits (BG), Am.? fly-honeysuckle with ripe red fruits =20 > (BG), red-berried baneberry with ripe red tempting berries (BG), =20 > roseroot (Sedum) with very young fruits (BG), red elderberry with =20 > ripe-looking berries (again tempting)(BG). > > OTHER PLANTS: ground nut vines more prevalent this year than in =20 > past years and giving herbaceous plants a hard time (BG), water =20 > plantain leaves noted along stream (BG). > > FERNS (all in BG): Christmas fern rich in sporangia, same for wood =20 > or spinulose fern, same for lady fern, maidenhair fern (we didn't =20 > look for sporangia), ostrich fern (no fertile fronds yet), same for =20= > sensitive fern. > > FUNGI (WT): Nancy collected a stalked polypore for identification =20 > (one of many on a fallen log), also a very tiny colony of erect tan =20= > fungal fingers on a log, colonies of a flat white slime mold on wood, > > GARDENS BIRDS: n. flicker, chimney swift, Am. goldfinch, song =20 > sparrow, red-breasted nuthatch, Am. crow, black-capped chickadee. > > WOODLAND TRAILS BIRDS: n. cardinal (2 seen), downy woodpecker (one =20 > was a newly fledged juvenile), red-eyed vireo, bl.-c. chickadees, =20 > Am. robins, r.-n. pheasant crowing repeatedly, Am. crows, blue =20 > jays, cedar waxwings, yellow-rumped warbler singing, white-throated =20= > sparrow, raven (flew over). > > INSECTS (all in BG): spangle galls on red and sugar maple leaves =20 > (caused by a midge), multi-spotted Asian lady beetle (one seen on =20 > foliage), an unidentified but cooperative basking skipper =20 > (Lepidoptera), one huge gray horse fly. > > OTHER INVERTEBRATES: two kinds of gall mite galls on red maple =20 > leaves (one is like upright pimples, other is flat and red-coloured)=20= > (BG), a small jumping spider found on Nancy's jacket (BG), a small =20 > orb-web spider found without a web and feeding on a prey item (WT), =20= > land snails abundant on foliage (BG&WT). > ------------------------------ > --Boundary_(ID_8e+Gu088T0sMbsycZuXOAg) Content-type: text/html; charset=WINDOWS-1252 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> Nancy Nickerson quickly added these notes to our previous notes. = =A0Thanks, Nancy! from Jim in Wolfville.<br><div><br><div>Begin = forwarded message:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: = </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica">Nancy Nickerson <<a = href=3D"mailto:nicknl@ns.sympatico.ca">nicknl@ns.sympatico.ca</a>></font><= /div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">July 1, 2009 5:32:59 PM = ADT</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">"'James W. Wolford'" <<a = href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</a>>, = 'Melanie Priesnitz' <<a = href=3D"mailto:melanie.priesnitz@acadiau.ca">melanie.priesnitz@acadiau.ca<= /a>>, 'Harold Forsyth' <<a = href=3D"mailto:harold.forsyth@ns.sympatico.ca">harold.forsyth@ns.sympatico= .ca</a>></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>RE: June 30/09 Nature Counts walk at = Irving Ctr./Woodland Trails</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; = min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: = Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; = font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; = orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; = white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: = 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><o:smarttagtype = namespaceuri=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" = name=3D"City"><o:smarttagtype = namespaceuri=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" = name=3D"PlaceType"><o:smarttagtype = namespaceuri=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" = name=3D"PlaceName"><o:smarttagtype = namespaceuri=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" = name=3D"place"><div class=3D"Section1"><div style=3D"margin-top: 0cm; = margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size=3D"2" color=3D"navy" = face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; = color: navy; ">Additional notes on the fungi from the June 30/09 Nature = Counts walk:<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; = font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size=3D"2" = color=3D"navy" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-size: 10pt; = font-family: Arial; color: navy; "><o:p>=A0</o:p></span></font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; = margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New = Roman'; "><font size=3D"2" color=3D"navy" face=3D"Arial"><span = style=3D"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">The stalked = polypore on the log was the Blackfoot Polypore or Elegant Polypore = (Polyporus varius).<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; = margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New = Roman'; "><font size=3D"2" color=3D"navy" face=3D"Arial"><span = style=3D"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">The colony = of erect tan fungal fingers on a log was the Clublike Tuning Fork = (Calocera cornea), a jelly fungus.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; = margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New = Roman'; "><font size=3D"2" color=3D"navy" face=3D"Arial"><span = style=3D"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">The flat = white slime mold on wood was one of the two varieties of the Coral Slime = (Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa = var.porioides).<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; = font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size=3D"2" = color=3D"navy" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-size: 10pt; = font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">I also collected an =93oyster = mushroom=94 on a poplar trunk, and identified it as the Aspen Oyster = (Pleurotus populinus).<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; = margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New = Roman'; "><font size=3D"2" color=3D"navy" face=3D"Arial"><span = style=3D"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">According = to my notes, these are the first records of Calocera cornea, Ceratiomyxa = fruticulosa var. porioides and Pleurotus populinus in the Nature Counts = database. The previous record of Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa in the database = was var. fruticulosa.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; = margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New = Roman'; "><font size=3D"2" color=3D"navy" face=3D"Arial"><span = style=3D"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; = "><o:p>=A0</o:p></span></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0cm; = margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size=3D"2" color=3D"navy" = face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; = color: navy; ">During a visit to the Trails this morning (July 1) I saw = a pair of blue-headed vireos chasing a blue jay near the Norway spruce = forest. I=92m not sure if blue-headed vireo is already in the database. = If not, it can be added.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; = margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New = Roman'; "><font size=3D"2" color=3D"navy" face=3D"Arial"><span = style=3D"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; = "><o:p>=A0</o:p></span></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0cm; = margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size=3D"2" color=3D"navy" = face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; = color: navy; ">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; = margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New = Roman'; "><font size=3D"2" color=3D"navy" face=3D"Arial"><span = style=3D"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; = "><o:p>=A0</o:p></span></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0cm; = margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><st1:city w:st=3D"on"><st1:place = w:st=3D"on"><font size=3D"2" color=3D"navy" face=3D"Arial"><span = style=3D"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; = ">Nancy</span></font></st1:place></st1:city><font size=3D"2" = color=3D"navy" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-size: 10pt; = font-family: Arial; color: navy; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; = margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New = Roman'; "><font size=3D"2" color=3D"navy" face=3D"Arial"><span = style=3D"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; = "><o:p>=A0</o:p></span></font></div><div><div class=3D"MsoNormal" = align=3D"center" style=3D"text-align: center; margin-top: 0cm; = margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Times = New Roman"><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt; "><hr size=3D"2" width=3D"100%"= align=3D"center" tabindex=3D"-1"></span></font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; = margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New = Roman'; "><b><font size=3D"2" face=3D"Tahoma"><span style=3D"font-size: = 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold; = ">From:</span></font></b><font size=3D"2" face=3D"Tahoma"><span = style=3D"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0</span>James W. Wolford [<a = href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca</a>]<= span class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0</span><br><b><span = style=3D"font-weight: bold; ">Sent:</span></b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0</span>July 1, 2009 3:58 = PM<br><b><span style=3D"font-weight: bold; ">To:</span></b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0</span>Melanie Priesnitz; Harold = Forsyth; Nancy Nickerson; Jim Wolford<br><b><span style=3D"font-weight: = bold; ">Subject:</span></b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0</span>June 30/09 Nature Counts walk = at Irving Ctr./Woodland Trails</span></font><o:p></o:p></div></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; = margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New = Roman'; "><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Times New Roman"><span = style=3D"font-size: 12pt; "><o:p>=A0</o:p></span></font></div><div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; = margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New = Roman'; "><b><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Times New Roman"><span = style=3D"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; ">Please send along any = additions or corrections to Melanie and the rest of us. Thanks to Harold = for the notes. Jim</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; = margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New = Roman'; "><b><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Times New Roman"><span = style=3D"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; = ">----------------------------</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></div></div><di= v><div style=3D"margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; = margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New = Roman'; "><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Times New Roman"><span = style=3D"font-size: 12pt; = "><o:p>=A0</o:p></span></font></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; = font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font size=3D"1" = face=3D"Helvetica"><span style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: = Helvetica; font-weight: bold; ">JUNE 30, 2009 - NATURE COUNTS weekly = evening biodiversity walk</span></font></b><font size=3D"1" = face=3D"Helvetica"><span style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: = Helvetica; "><span class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0</span>at the = Irving Botanical Gardens (BG) and Woodland Trails (WT),<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0</span><st1:place = w:st=3D"on"><st1:placename w:st=3D"on">Acadia</st1:placename><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0</span><st1:placetype = w:st=3D"on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>.</span></font><o:p></o:= p></div></div><div style=3D"min-height: 14px; "><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; = font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size=3D"1" = face=3D"Helvetica"><span style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: = Helvetica; "><o:p>=A0</o:p></span></font></div></div><div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; = margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New = Roman'; "><font size=3D"1" face=3D"Helvetica"><span style=3D"font-size: = 9pt; font-family: Helvetica; ">Sunny, partly cloudy, and warm and muggy = -- 23 C. We had four participants: Nancy Nickerson, Harold Forsyth, = Karla Kuklis?, and myself, Jim Wolford. Also Wade Coldwell joined us = briefly. Noboday led, and we just very slowly walked first in the = Gardens and then some of the Woodland Trails, with Harold volunteering = to write down some highlight = notes.</span></font><o:p></o:p></div></div><div style=3D"min-height: = 14px; "><div style=3D"margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: = 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New = Roman'; "><font size=3D"1" face=3D"Helvetica"><span style=3D"font-size: = 9pt; font-family: Helvetica; = "><o:p>=A0</o:p></span></font></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; = font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font size=3D"1" = face=3D"Helvetica"><span style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: = Helvetica; font-weight: bold; ">PLANTS IN BLOOM:</span></font></b><font = size=3D"1" face=3D"Helvetica"><span style=3D"font-size: 9pt; = font-family: Helvetica; "><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0</span>bush honeysuckle (BG), Canada = anemone(BG), wild rose sp. (BG), multiflora rose(BG & WT), sheep = laurel or lambkill (BG & WT), partridgeberry (Mitchella repens)(BG), = buttercup spp.? (tall? buttercup and creeping? buttercup)(BG&WT), = common speedwell (Veronica officinalis)(BG&WT), raspberry (BG), = mouse-eared? hawkweed (BG), narrow-leaved cattail (shedding pollen)(BG), = blue or cow vetch (BG&WT), another vetch (slender vetch?) with tiny = bluish flowers (BG), common bedstraw (WT), garden lupine (BG&WT), = three-toothed cinquefoil (BG), large bog cranberry (BG), harebell (BG), = yellow hop clover (BG), oxeye daisy (BG&WT), blue-eyed grass (BG), = an unknown species of Penstemon? (gray? or = hairy?)(BG)(Scrophulariaceae)(has been blooming for over a week or = perhaps two weeks?), ragged Robin (just a few left now)(BG), tall meadow = rue(BG), common yarrow (BG&WT), stitchwort (chickweed)(BG), water = hemlock (BG), garden valerian or wild heliotrope (BG&WT), showy = lady's-slippers still with a few old flowers (BG), red clover = (BG&WT), white clover (BG&WT), spreading dogbane (BG), a tall = fleabane sp. (BG), bog huckleberry (at its best)(BG), swamp candles = (BG), common elderberry (BG), goutweed (the variegated form along the = Woodland Trails is not in bloom or much less so than the ordinary = goutweed)(WT), nipplewort (WT), prickly wild lettuce (with yellow = flowers)(thistle-like leaves)(WT), dock sp. (Rumex)(WT), moneywort (WT), = privet (WT), Montague? lily (one plant, almost in flower)(WT), orange = hawkweed (WT), blackberry (WT)(not many flowers left), bittersweet or = nightshade (WT), glossy buckthorn (WT), black knapweed (WT) (newly in = flower), common bedstraw (WT), bulrush sp. (WT)(Scirpus), wild radish = (WT)(just one seen).</span></font><o:p></o:p></div></div><div = style=3D"min-height: 14px; "><div style=3D"margin-top: 0cm; = margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size=3D"1" = face=3D"Helvetica"><span style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: = Helvetica; "><o:p>=A0</o:p></span></font></div></div><div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; = margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New = Roman'; "><b><font size=3D"1" face=3D"Helvetica"><span style=3D"font-size:= 9pt; font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: bold; ">ROADSIDE = PLANTS</span></font></b><font size=3D"1" face=3D"Helvetica"><span = style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica; "><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0</span>(Univ. Ave.): bristly locust = in bloom, common St. John's-wort in bloom, white sweet clover in bloom, = goat's-beard (mature fruits), bird's-foot trefoil in bloom, = rabbit's-foot clover in bloom, heal-all in bloom, Timothy grass (Phleum) = in bloom, orchard grass (Dactylis) in bloom, other grasses = unidentifiable, evening primrose (just a few in bloom), pineappleweed in = bloom.</span></font><o:p></o:p></div></div><div style=3D"min-height: = 14px; "><div style=3D"margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: = 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New = Roman'; "><font size=3D"1" face=3D"Helvetica"><span style=3D"font-size: = 9pt; font-family: Helvetica; = "><o:p>=A0</o:p></span></font></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; = font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font size=3D"1" = face=3D"Helvetica"><span style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: = Helvetica; font-weight: bold; ">PLANTS WITH = FLOWER-BUDS</span></font></b><font size=3D"1" face=3D"Helvetica"><span = style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica; ">: white Joe-Pye-weed = (with something eating the leaves)(BG), jewelweed or touch-me-not = (Impatiens)(BG), swamp milkweed (BG), shinleaf or whitish-flowered = pyrola (WT)(almost in flower).</span></font><o:p></o:p></div></div><div = style=3D"min-height: 14px; "><div style=3D"margin-top: 0cm; = margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size=3D"1" = face=3D"Helvetica"><span style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: = Helvetica; "><o:p>=A0</o:p></span></font></div></div><div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; = margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New = Roman'; "><b><font size=3D"1" face=3D"Helvetica"><span style=3D"font-size:= 9pt; font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: bold; ">PLANTS IN = FRUIT</span></font></b><font size=3D"1" face=3D"Helvetica"><span = style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica; ">: "shadbush" = (Amelanchier sp.)(BG), bayberry with very young fruits (BG), Am.? = fly-honeysuckle with ripe red fruits (BG), red-berried baneberry with = ripe red tempting berries (BG), roseroot (Sedum) with very young fruits = (BG), red elderberry with ripe-looking berries (again = tempting)(BG).</span></font><o:p></o:p></div></div><div = style=3D"min-height: 14px; "><div style=3D"margin-top: 0cm; = margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size=3D"1" = face=3D"Helvetica"><span style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: = Helvetica; "><o:p>=A0</o:p></span></font></div></div><div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; = margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New = Roman'; "><b><font size=3D"1" face=3D"Helvetica"><span style=3D"font-size:= 9pt; font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: bold; ">OTHER = PLANTS</span></font></b><font size=3D"1" face=3D"Helvetica"><span = style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica; ">: ground nut vines = more prevalent this year than in past years and giving herbaceous plants = a hard time (BG), water plantain leaves noted along stream = (BG).</span></font><o:p></o:p></div></div><div style=3D"min-height: = 14px; "><div style=3D"margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: = 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New = Roman'; "><font size=3D"1" face=3D"Helvetica"><span style=3D"font-size: = 9pt; font-family: Helvetica; = "><o:p>=A0</o:p></span></font></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; = font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font size=3D"1" = face=3D"Helvetica"><span style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: = Helvetica; font-weight: bold; ">FERNS</span></font></b><font size=3D"1" = face=3D"Helvetica"><span style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: = Helvetica; "><span class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0</span>(all in = BG): Christmas fern rich in sporangia, same for wood or spinulose fern, = same for lady fern, maidenhair fern (we didn't look for sporangia), = ostrich fern (no fertile fronds yet), same for sensitive = fern.</span></font><o:p></o:p></div></div><div style=3D"min-height: = 14px; "><div style=3D"margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: = 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New = Roman'; "><font size=3D"1" face=3D"Helvetica"><span style=3D"font-size: = 9pt; font-family: Helvetica; = "><o:p>=A0</o:p></span></font></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; = font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font size=3D"1" = face=3D"Helvetica"><span style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: = Helvetica; font-weight: bold; ">FUNGI</span></font></b><font size=3D"1" = face=3D"Helvetica"><span style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: = Helvetica; "><span class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0</span>(WT): Nancy = collected a stalked polypore for identification (one of many on a fallen = log), also a very tiny colony of erect tan fungal fingers on a log, = colonies of a flat white slime mold on = wood,</span></font><o:p></o:p></div></div><div style=3D"min-height: = 14px; "><div style=3D"margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: = 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New = Roman'; "><font size=3D"1" face=3D"Helvetica"><span style=3D"font-size: = 9pt; font-family: Helvetica; = "><o:p>=A0</o:p></span></font></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; = font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font size=3D"1" = face=3D"Helvetica"><span style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: = Helvetica; font-weight: bold; ">GARDENS BIRDS</span></font></b><font = size=3D"1" face=3D"Helvetica"><span style=3D"font-size: 9pt; = font-family: Helvetica; ">: n. flicker, chimney swift, Am. goldfinch, = song sparrow, red-breasted nuthatch, Am. crow, black-capped = chickadee.</span></font><o:p></o:p></div></div><div style=3D"min-height: = 14px; "><div style=3D"margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: = 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New = Roman'; "><font size=3D"1" face=3D"Helvetica"><span style=3D"font-size: = 9pt; font-family: Helvetica; = "><o:p>=A0</o:p></span></font></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; = font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><st1:city = w:st=3D"on"><st1:place w:st=3D"on"><b><font size=3D"1" = face=3D"Helvetica"><span style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: = Helvetica; font-weight: bold; = ">WOODLAND</span></font></b></st1:place></st1:city><b><font size=3D"1" = face=3D"Helvetica"><span style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: = Helvetica; font-weight: bold; "><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0</span>TRAILS = BIRDS</span></font></b><font size=3D"1" face=3D"Helvetica"><span = style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica; ">: n. cardinal (2 = seen), downy woodpecker (one was a newly fledged juvenile), red-eyed = vireo, bl.-c. chickadees, Am. robins, r.-n. pheasant crowing repeatedly, = Am. crows, blue jays, cedar waxwings, yellow-rumped warbler singing, = white-throated sparrow, raven (flew = over).</span></font><o:p></o:p></div></div><div style=3D"min-height: = 14px; "><div style=3D"margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: = 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New = Roman'; "><font size=3D"1" face=3D"Helvetica"><span style=3D"font-size: = 9pt; font-family: Helvetica; = "><o:p>=A0</o:p></span></font></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; = font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font size=3D"1" = face=3D"Helvetica"><span style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: = Helvetica; font-weight: bold; ">INSECTS</span></font></b><font size=3D"1" = face=3D"Helvetica"><span style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: = Helvetica; "><span class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0</span>(all in = BG): spangle galls on red and sugar maple leaves (caused by a midge), = multi-spotted Asian lady beetle (one seen on foliage), an unidentified = but cooperative basking skipper (Lepidoptera), one huge gray horse = fly.</span></font><o:p></o:p></div></div><div style=3D"min-height: 14px; = "><div style=3D"margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; = margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New = Roman'; "><font size=3D"1" face=3D"Helvetica"><span style=3D"font-size: = 9pt; font-family: Helvetica; = "><o:p>=A0</o:p></span></font></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; = font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font size=3D"1" = face=3D"Helvetica"><span style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: = Helvetica; font-weight: bold; ">OTHER = INVERTEBRATES</span></font></b><font size=3D"1" face=3D"Helvetica"><span = style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica; ">: two kinds of gall = mite galls on red maple leaves (one is like upright pimples, other is = flat and red-coloured)(BG), a small jumping spider found on Nancy's = jacket (BG), a small orb-web spider found without a web and feeding on a = prey item (WT), land snails abundant on foliage = (BG&WT).</span></font><o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0cm; 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