Trails

TRAIL SYSTEM MAP

On the trail:
May 10
-False Solomon's Seal blooming along Chipmunk Trail
-Rose-breasted Grosbeak carrying nesting material and
working on nest
-Yellow Warblers singing right outside Nature Center

May 8
-91 species of birds seen and heard

May 6
-Orchard Oriole seen and heard near Director's residence
-Summer Tanager (female) seen by staff and visitors, a
rare visitor to this area

May 5
-17 species of warblers seen and heard

May 4
-Vole impaled on sharp twig by a Shrike
-Nashville Warbler climbing through twigs and singing
-Palm Warblers all over the trails
-Wild Strawberry blossoms
-Blue-gray Gnatcatchers chasing each other
-Beautiful Scarlet Tanager male in Hussong Woods
-Rose-breasted Grosbeak singing in the apple blossoms
-young male Baltimore Oriole singing and bouncing
through leaves

April 21
-A pair of Blue-winged Teal on Hussong Marsh
-Hermit Thrush jumping on snags
-Ruby-crowned Kinglet bouncing through branches
-Eastern Phoebe catching insects
-2 Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers chasing each other
-Stinging Nettle growing up

April 20
-Cabbage butterflies fluttering
-Ferns coming up in the marsh (fiddleheads)
-Trout Lilies blooming
-Jewelweed leaves peeking out of the forest floor
-Woodchucks out eating, then scurrying to their burrows
-Lesser Scaup diving by the floating boardwalk
-Yellow-rumped Warbler

April 19
-Brown Thrasher bouncing around under the brush
-Blue-gray Gnatcatcher flitting from branch to branch
-Painted Turtle sunning on a log in Hussong Marsh
-Bluebells blooming along the trail
-bumblebee buzzing near the ground
-waterleaf leaves growing in the woods
-mayapple leaves have flower buds nested between
them, ready to blossom soon
-violets blooming all along edges of trail
-dragonfly hawking insects on the boardwalk

April 14
-Cedar Waxwings in the trees
-A pair of Wooducks flying across Hussong Marsh
-Dragonflies mating at Whirligig Pond
-Lots of mosquito pupae wriggling in Whirligig Pond
-An Osprey circling overhead
-Leopard Frogs calling
-May Apple leaves and buds along Hussong Trail

April 12
-A male Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle Warbler) zoomed
past and perched on a branch close by
-A pair of Song Sparrows in a small tree along the
boardwalk
-An Eastern Comma Butterfly sunning itself along
the back fence of the deer yard
-Virginia Bluebells are ready to bloom along Hussong Trail
-Trout Lily (Dog-tooth Violet) leaves all over
Hussong Woods

April 8
-Wild Turkey tracks in the snow
-A pair of Sandhill Cranes standing together in the middle
of the trail
-A pair of Bald Eagle adults circling over Hussong Marsh
-A Yellow-bellied Sapsucker circling around a tree trunk

April 5
-Mourning Cloak butterfly fluttering through the woods
-Hermit Thrush bouncing around on fallen logs
-Wood Frogs calling along Hussong Marsh
-Tree Swallows swooping and diving for insects

April 2
-A pair of Eastern Phoebes catching flying insects
-Brown Creepers crawling up and down trunks