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Red Clover (Trifolium pratense) Tentative ID

This may be a Red Clover. These flowers are abundant in mid-May around the detention ponds on the south side. Red clover was broug…
Eastern Bluebird

Likely a younger bird. Interested in what I was doing.
Dogbane Beetle (Chrysochus auratus)

I am reasonably confident in the identification here. The Dogbane Beetles mate and lay eggs through the summer. Eggs are laid leav…
Dogbane Beetle

Another view of the shiny, iredescent elytra (wing casing) and thorax.
Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)

This female bird was calmly walking through the field of the horse farm south of, and adjacent to, Galloway Ridge as she pecked at…
Downy Woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens)

Downy Woodpeckers have an interesting and somewhat complicated taxonomic history. According to Wikipedia,the Downy Woodpecker was…
Daisy and a Wasp

A tentatively identified Eastern Yellow Jacket (Vespula maculifrons), feeding on a daisy. These yellow jackets, and bees, are abu…
Eastern Eyed Click Beetle (Alaus oculatus)

Those are NOT big eyes, but rather markings on the wing covers, or elytra on this beetle. These large spots look very much like la…
Slaty Skimmer (Libellula incesta) Tentative

Starting in late May, there appeared an abundance and some diversity of Odonata - dragonflies, skimmers, darners, and dashers arou…
Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) - Tentative

I am going to call this one a Blue Dasher. The terminal segments are black and there is dusky coloration at the terminal half of t…
Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) - Tentative

And this is probably either a female or a juvenile Blue Dasher.
Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) - Tentative

Probably another Blue Dasher. Females, which are about the same size as males, have shorter, yellow-striped abdomens like this one…
Sedges

As May progressed, the Sedges became more abundant in the shallow areas of the detention ponds. I was taken by the sharp color con…
Red Shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus)

The day I took this shot, there were several Red Shouldered Hawks reeling about over Galloway Ridge, and especially between the de…
Black Berries

Getting plump and just waiting for the deer to dine.
Tufted Ttimouse (Baeolophus bicolor)

The Tufted Titmouse is closely related to the Carolina Chickadee and is common throughout the state and are found throughout the e…
Colored Water

Early one morning after an evening rainfall, as we were closing a bridge on the Galloway Trails, Anne noticed some foam on the wat…
A Skipper Butterfly

The Skippers are a group of small moth-like butterflies. This may be one of the grass Skippers
Comma Butterflys (Polygonia comma) - Tentative

I am going to call this the Comma rather than the Question Mark, Butterfly due to the lack of strong color on the border of the hi…
Old Man of the Woods

A knot on a dying tree along the trail. Fungi have already colonized the inner tree and there are insects - termites? actively wo…
Detention Pond

The Pickerel Weed has really begun to encroach on the open areas of the detention ponds, while at the same timer flowering with p…