N & C's Nature Adventures and More

Black-crowned Night Heron Wild Columbine Red-headed Woodpecker Blackpoll Warbler Fledgling American Robin Mourning Warbler Common Nighthawk: hard to find and hard to describe! It's a primarily nocturnal hunter that can be found "sleeping" (or roosting) on branches in the daytime. Wood Thrush Flowering crabapple Mute Swan parents and their cygnets! Female Prothonotary Warbler Momma American Robin with not much room to spare! Notice the little beak poking out from under her :) Philadelphia Vireo Lupine Horned Lark   Great Egret   Black-capped Chickadee collecting nesting material from the reeds! Semipalmated Sandpipers Muskrat with a tasty snack Our first sighting of a big group of tadpoles! Flowering Mayapple

Male Scarlet Tanager showing his namesake striking colour! Female Scarlet Tanager, beautiful in her own right! Male Blackburnian Warbler, one of our favourites! Golden-winged Warbler, a rare species in decline and a first for us! Sapsucker damage at Maidstone Conservation Area Our Wood Duck tree! The fledglings have flown the coop! More evidence Magnolia blossom Wild Phlox Wild Honeysuckle Praying Mantis ootheca (type of egg mass) Suspected deer hoof, a pretty gruesome discovery... You just never know what you'll find on a hike!