July 2011

"It's our flag too."

NATURE THINGS TO OBSERVE ON THE TRAILS THIS MONTH: 1. Beginning of dog days named for Sirius the Dog Star¸which rises with the sun. 2. Day lilies bloom. 3. Listen for the whine of the cicadas. 4. Indian pipes appear in the woods. 5. Listen for the intermittent “weep” of the great crested flycatcher and the trilling chatter of the kingbirds. 6. Watch for monarch butterflies on milkweed plants. 7. fireflies appear. 8. meadowsweet and steeplebush bloom. 9. loosestrife flowers in wet areas. 10. snowy tree crickets  and cone headed grasshoppers sing. 12. pickerelweed blooms at pond edges.


Projects: We’re putting up labels on plants at both the bird spot one and bird spot two locations. Submit wild plant locations to us for labeling. In the library is a new Solair Plant atlas showing the plants and their locations by name and GPS. A GPS map is being developed based on current topo surveys.