Having walked north to Goosefare Brook and then south as far as Ferry Beach, we decided to loop through the State Park trails back to our car in the Bayview beach parking. This is what we saw:
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| Chipping sparrow |
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| Pickerel weed at the end of long pond |
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| We noticed how rotten this section of tree was and how deep the pileated woodpeckers had delved in it… |
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| …while the higher parts looked to be completely healthy wood. We weren’t sure why we were surprised, but we were. |
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| Peck’s yellow dust amanita |
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| Cucumber root |
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| There was a faint mist in the woods and it felt noticeably more humid even though the streams were dry… |
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| …presumably due to transpiration from all the plants |
We also heard several red-eyed vireos calling as we walked (six would be a conservative estimate) and at least two black-throated green warblers.
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