Spring Wildflowers
Yale Botanist Michael Donoghue leading a spring botany and wildflower walk.
Yale Botanist Michael Donoghue leading a spring botany and wildflower walk.
Birder Mike DiGiorgio leads a group in the early spring along the Summer Hill Trail.
Photo by Dave Stephenson, near Indian Rock Shelters Trail
Fall on the Greist Pond loop of the Ironwoods Trail.
Young hikers following a treasure hunt along the Neck River.
Kids discovering amphibians along our trails with Yale biologists Dave Skelly and Kealoha Freidenburg.
Author and biologist Tom Wessels taught us how to understand history by looking at the forest.
Julie Ainsworth leading a group out into the Ox Pasture in the spring time.
Photo by Anne Elliott, 2011 photo contest, Ironwoods Preserve
Photo by Emily Soboleski, 2011 photo contest, Shepherds Trail
Photo by Geoffrey Giller
Photo by Joan O’Neill
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MAY Marsh-Marigold, Bluets, Chickweed. Pussytoes, catbrier, Ferns unfolding, Violets, Blue Flags, Bittersweet, Trout Lily, Mayapple, Starflower, False Hellebore, Solomon’s Seal, Wood Sorrell, Indian Cucumber-Root, Bellwort, Jack-in-the-Pulpit
JUNE Butterflies, Wood Nymph. Fireflies. June Bugs, crickets, Bullfrog chorus. Bats in evening sky. Devil’s Paintbrush, Orange Hawkweed, Lady’s Slipper, Moccasin-Flower, False Solomon’s Seal, Butter-&-Eggs, Spotted Wintergreen, Partridgeberries, Wild Strawberries, Mountain Laurel, Water-Lilies.
JULY Sundew in bogs, Arrowheads, Wild Roses, Day Lilies, Pokeweed, Jewelweed, Morning-Glory, Pinesap, Rattlesnake-Plaintain, Pipsissewa, Indian Pipes, Red Admiral Butterf]y, Praying Mantis, Katydid, Snowy Tree Cricket, Paper Wasps build nests. Deer Flies.