Day 4 - the End?

Wow - another day when rain was forecast, but we had mostly sunny skies, and the temps soared into the 70s with very high humidity. It felt like July!

But how grateful we were, for the insects were out (so many queen bees), and we even found our first snakes of the year (including an apparent hibernaculum where a whole bunch of them were emerging).

Warblers sang, grouse drummed, frogs and toads were calling - it was beautiful.

Even slogging through flooded trails, it was exciting, for we had our first physical frogs (not just sounds), and tiny little fish, trapped in the flood water.

Butterflies and warblers for the most part elluded our cameras. Sigh. But take our word for it: we saw red admirals galore, and butterbutts! Hears, I'm sure, a black-throated blue warbler, and Merlin said we had a black and white (while refusing to record the drumming of the ruffed grouse).

As of 7:45 this evening, we stand at (drumroll please):
747 observations (about 40 shy of last year)
372 species (36 more than last year!!)
36 observers (1 more than last year)

So keep loading your photos and data tonight. You actually have a few days to do it.

The next week is the time to identify what has been posted. If you feel knowledgeable, even a little bit, go on into the project and look at what folks have posted. If you agree with the identification, click the "agree" button. This helps bring the images up to research grade, so folks who are doing research can "cut to the chase" to collect data.

Stay tuned for the final details...and thank you for participating!

Posted on April 29, 2024 11:51 PM by batgirl