WWW4 - Wicked Warbler Weekend IV - 4/24 and 4/25/10
WWW4 in Virginia with Debbie. Thanks to her great planning, and accommodating weather, we had a blast! She was a wonderful hostess. Thank you! :o)
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Saturday 4/24/10 - Not too long after starting out in the morning, we saw Wild Turkey on a hillside.
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MVA Award - Goat kid
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Black Vultures
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Field Sparrow - Out in the open, but camouflaged.
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Canada Goose and goslings
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At the McCormick Farm and Mill we were greeted by four Domestic Greylag (Greylag and (?) hybrids?)
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Mill wheel - Once used for grain farming, the fields are now primarily used as livestock pasture.
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Mill interior
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Wild Columbine - We begin the Marl Creek Trail at the farm.
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Wild Columbine
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Turtle alert!
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Something has got these two all excited.
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Solitary Sandpiper
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Mountain Andromeda aka Mountain Fetterbush gives white flowers in May
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Spotted Sandpiper
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May Apple
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Chokecherry (Prunus virginiana) Leaf and flower detail, lower bark, higher bark. See also Chokeberry.
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Rue Anemone (Anemonella thalictroides)
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Spring Beauty (Claytonia virginica)
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Wild Geranium blossom and buds
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Eastern Painted Turtle (Cbrysemys picta)
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Black Rat Snake - When you see a snake with blue eyes, like this one, it means it will be shedding its skin soon.
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Chokeberry (Aronia) blossoms
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Honey Bee Tree
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Buttercups
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Water snake
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Moss on rock
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Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) - This shows the variety in the leaves as they mature.
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Bloodroot and seed pod.
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Woodpecker ears :o)
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Still life
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Forest scene
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Nature's paint
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An old fountain and a pond, that's all that's left of a hotel/resort at another stop.
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4/25/10 - Sunday morning thunderclouds
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Cedar Apple Rust gall with spore horns on a Red Cedar.
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Leonard's Pond - This pastoral setting isn't the kind of place you expect to see shore birds.
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Spotted Sandpiper
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Curpin alert! (Spotted Sandpiper)
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Killdeer
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Likely Oilseed Rape. Farmers consider Wild Mustard a weed that invades their fields, so it's unlikely they'd plant a field of that.
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Oilseed Rape field.
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Freshly plowed undulating fields.
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"K's Pond". Home of Spatterdock.
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The weather is kind. It spritzes while we're in the car and the sun comes out when we stop to bird.
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Fiddleheads on Shenandoah Mountain and near Switzer lake that isn't Switzer lake. :o) Home of the Northern Parula!
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Bluets
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Partridge Berry (Mitchella repens)
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Green worm - feisty little thing about a half an inch long
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Millepede - (Apheloria virginiensis)
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}:o(
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Mom got crabby (again!). Time for a smoke!
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Back at Deb and Ralph's
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Lightning might strike, but that cigarette must be smoked.
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It looked threatening
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Clouds so low they scraped the tree tops
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And, poof, it was gone, blown away to bother someone else.
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Triple dog dare
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Thank you all, but esp. Debbie.
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