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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JAN Snowy Owls in open fields and coastal areas. Stoneflies emerge. First heavy snows, footprints. Honeybee flights. Hunger Moon of the Ameircan Indian. Stock birdfeeders well, put out suet.
FEB Redpoll flights. Feb. 2 is Groundhog Day. Tiny black snowflies at the sunny base of trees. Great Horned Owls nest. Foxes yip at night. Snow Buntings move northward along the coast. Red-wings return.
MARCH Geese and ducks move north. Blackbirds, Song and Fox Sparrows, Mourning Cloak Butterflies. Spotted Salamander migration. Robins, Wood Frogs, Peepers, Skunk Cabbage, Pussy Willow, Snowdrops.
APRIL Red Maples flower. Tree Swallows, House Wrens, Wood Pewees, Phoebes, catbirds, Flickers. Toads call, Turtles crawl. Spring Azure Butterfly. Anemone, Spring Beauty, Hepatica, Bloodroot, Wild Ginger, Dwarf Ginsing, Trilliium, Vibod-Betony, Wild Geranium, Blue-Eyed Grass, Cinquefoil.