This Week at Nixon Park- October 17-24

Bald Eagle

Migration season continues, keep your eye on the sky and you may catch migratory species like the bald eagle above.

The barbules of beggartick seeds waiting to hitch a ride in fur or clothes.

Red-eared Slider and Painted Turtle basking, a freshly hulled black walnut stashed in the crook of a honeysuckle bush, Crab Spider *Xysticus funestus*, Brown Stink Bug

Northern Paper Wasp, Pearl Crescent Butterfly, Common Eastern Bumblebee, and Pure Green Sweat Bee

Seeing and hearing Carolina Wrens every day

Ruby-crowned Kinglet, curious, furious(?), and confrontational in measures far outweighing its size.

Cape May Warbler, not a great photo, but a relatively rare migrant for Nixon Park

Great Blue Heron, Chipping Sparrow, Song Sparrow, White-throated Sparrow, Goldfinch

Oh Sweet Canada!

It's well into migration season and one of our winter resident sparrows has begin showing up after a summer in the north. The melancholy sweet call of the White Throated Sparrow will accompany me through my winter walks. Their song is something like "oh sweet Can-a-

Fruiting Bodies

The largest part of most fungi is hidden underground or inside the fallen trees where they grow. An unseen web of fine mycelium threads supports each fungus's visible "fruiting body." The fruiting bodies appear in many forms, and one of the best times to see them

A flash of yellow

Over the past week or so the edge of the forest around the ponds has been alive with dozens of sparrow-sized birds darting in and out of the trees, swooping over the ponds for insects, diving back for cover and calling out a flat, husky "chek" as

Fall Flowers at Nixon Park

At the autumnal equinox earth reached the mid point in its slow annual tilt away from the sun. From this point the angle of the sun's rays grow steeper and the daylight hours shorter until we reach the shortest daylight at the winter solstice and begin the slow

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Oh Sweet Canada!

Fruiting Bodies

A flash of yellow

Fall Flowers at Nixon Park