tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4108348739354373762024-03-06T19:33:59.567-08:00Through The Looking GlassAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11648992524079593966noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410834873935437376.post-21578632771469859552018-09-09T15:50:00.000-07:002018-09-09T15:50:27.627-07:00Spring in El Chalten, Laguna Capri Trail<br />
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<b><span style="color: #a2c4c9;"> El Chalten is a small mountain village in </span></b><b><span style="color: #a2c4c9;">Los Glacieres National Park, in Argentina's </span></b><b><span style="color: #a2c4c9;">Santa Cruz Province. It is on the side of Rio Fitz Roy. The town is is a hub for international hikers. The winds can be fierce and persistent there, because the village is on the edge of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field and not far from the sea. The beauty is astonishing, from the spires of the mountains to the delicate wildflowers at your feet</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-size: small;"><b>The Laguna Capri trail starts at the other end of town.</b></span></td></tr>
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<b><span style="color: #a2c4c9;">but was still astonished by the variety of floral beauty</span></b></h3>
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<b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Smyrna Dunes Park is 73 acres of wild Florida, overlooked by towering condos, a last refuge for the natural world. The park is surrounded by water on three sides, and consists of five ecosystems, ocean, river (Indian River), scrub zone and salt-water marsh. I was there a year ago February. This was my last vacation with my husband, who succumbed to Alzheimer's three months later. It is only now that I have the peace of mind to write this blog.</span></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: small;"><b>There are many waterfalls in El Yunque. <br />Cocoa Falls is right along the road..</b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #93c47d; font-size: small;"><b>As was this lovely scene.<br /> There was also a Banaquit building a nest, right <br /> over the road, but too shadowed to get good pictures.</b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #e06666;">Flowers were everywhere</span></h3>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><b><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: small;">The Hibiscus <i>(Thespia grandiflora</i>) is the state flower</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: small;"><b>The flowers are inconspicuous among the bracts.<br />Ginger is native to Maylasia.</b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #e06666; font-size: small;"><b>A gecko explores a Purple Spike Bromeliad.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">There are over 240 endemic, introduced, and exotic species of trees and other plants in the Luquillo Forest. There are four forest types: Tabonuco, Colorado, Palm and Dwarf. </span><span style="color: #93c47d;">I met only a hapgazrad few of the trees. </span> </h4>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><b><span style="color: #93c47d; font-size: small;">A Sierra Palm forest, overtaking the The Bano De Oro,<br /> built in the 1930's by the CCC<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #93c47d; font-size: small;">My favorite Tree is a is a Fern <br />(Fern Class, Polypoidiopsida, Order Dicksonia).</span></b></td></tr>
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<b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Iceland is famous for stunning landscapes: waterfallls, glaciers and volcanoes. It's plant life however, also deserves attention. While low in species numbers, Iceland flora is jewel like and fascinating. It aptly illustrates the tenacity of life in a diversity of unlikely conditions.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Pleistocene glaciations wiped out Icelandic Boreal Forests. Succeeding glaciations left fewer and fewer species of flora. Iceland is far from Europe and North America, so species were not easily reintroduced onto the island. The only forest forming tree to return to the present interglacial was the downy birch</span><span style="color: #93c47d;">.</span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<b><span style="color: #6aa84f;"> Other tree species native to Iceland are the uncommon Rowan (Sorbus aucuparia), the extremely rare aspen (populus tremula) and abundant shrubby willows. </span></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #76a5af; font-size: small;">Birds fledged in the garden. Blue Jay, <i>Cyanocita cristata.</i></span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><b><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-size: small;">Liatris ligustylis opens. Liatris genus is a favorite native of pollinators.<br />A West Virginia White, <i>Pieris virginiensis,</i> has landed.</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-size: small;"><b>August! The Monarchs finally arrive!<br />On <i>Liatris aspera</i></b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-size: small;"><b>I hold my breath every year until they arrive!</b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-size: small;"><b>A Great Spangled Fritillary,<i> Speria cybele </i>on New York Iron Weed, <i>Veronia noveboracensis.</i><br />A Fritillary is a rarity in this garden!</b></span></td></tr>
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000;"> To paraphrase Sara Stein.. Our gardens are now the Ark. </span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #93c47d;"><b>Another worthy escape from fantasy Florida, is the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. "Refuge" says it all. Wildlife needs refuge from relentless development. As usual, there is never enough time, so this early spring tour is confined to the Black Point Wildlife drive, a seven mile </b></span><b style="color: #93c47d; text-align: center;">loop through salt marsh.</b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: small;">Perhaps I can catch dinner?<br />'Aigrettes' are the breeding plume feathers'<br />so many birds were killed to obtain.</span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>Yes, it is still there..at least that's what it said on a sign outside Blue Springs State Park, in Orange City Florida. Spanish Moss (not a moss, but a lichen) , palmettos, cypress forests, alligators, manatees, not malls. Abundant bird life, not indistinguishable subdivisions. The real world beyond Disney World.</b></span><br />
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<b style="color: #6fa8dc; text-align: justify;">The mysterious Nile! Its source a mystery for 2.000 years. Herodotus (c.484-425BC), the Ancient Greek "Father of History", was probably the first to compile theories of the river's origins. He even made an expedition to Africa to determine the origin for himself, navigating as far as the modern Aswn in Egypt. He decided that the source was unknowable, due to the land of "Wild Beasts". </b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">The monumental trials of later explorers, with swamps, diseases, animals, natives and Arab slave traders, proved him not far from wrong. Herodotus dismissed the theory that the origin of the Nile was snowmelt, arguing that the persistent heat of the equatorial regions precluded such an explanation. However, that explanation was closest to the truth.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>A trader named Diogenes, traveling west from the African coast around 50 CE, reported his discovery of a great lake and snowy mountains in the African interior. Historians suspect that these were the present day Lake Nyassa or Victoria and the Ruwenzori Mountains. From Diogenes account, the snowy mountains feeding the lakes and hence the Nile, were entered into Ptolemy's (</b></span><b style="color: #6fa8dc;">the great second century Alexandrian geographer and cartographer) </b><b style="color: #6fa8dc;"> grand Geograpica as the fabled "Mountains of the Moon"</b><br />
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<span style="color: #76a5af;"><b>The Richard Burton and John Speke expedition, 1856, also approached the Nile from the west coast of Africa, via Zanzibar. They "discovered" Lake Tanganyka together, but on a side expedition without Burton, Speke "discovered" Lake Victoria and Ripon Falls. He surmised that the river emanating from the falls was the Nile, and thus, that Lake victoria was the source of the Nile.</b></span></div>
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<b style="color: #76a5af;">It was only a surmise, with no proof, and Burton had other theories. This lead to an extended debate in the Royal Geographic Society, which was to be settled by a public debate between Burton ans Speke. Directly before this could occur, Speke accidently (?) shot himself while hunting.</b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #76a5af;">David Livingstone failed to find the source in 1866. It was left to Henry Morton Stanley in his remarkable "Walk Across Africa" to prove Speke right. By 1877, the mystery of the White Nile was solved. Even now however, the answer is more complex, including the snows of the Ruwenzori mountains and Lake Albert.</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>One fine morning last September, I found myself in the Ugandan Rift Valley, on 'Safari' at Murchison Falls National Park. "Finding" myself there had not been easy, it was a crazy eight hour drive from Kampala, followed by an evening Nile River crossing, to reach the Garden of Eden. </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>And so I deem it to be, as the African Rift Valley is where our deepest ancestors came down from the trees of the receding forests and emerged onto the savannah.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>Murchison Falls National Park, is named after the eponymous falls, contained within its boundaries. It is the oldest of Uganda's National Parks and is located on the last leg of the Victoria Nile, joining Lake Albert. The Nile bisects the park. Wildlife in MFNP is mostly concentrated on the Northern side of the Nile River, and tracks have been developed for visitors such as myself to view wildlife. </b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #e69138;">I appreciated that this park requires drivers to stay on the track. I was uncomfotable on a previous excursion to a private reserve in South Africa, where drivers used land cruisers to bulldoze through the terrain.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Uganda has a great deal to offer the intrepid traveler, and saving what is left of this astounding biodiversity, depends largely upon tourist dollars. If ecological tourism can provide livings for the local population, there will be less pressure from subsistence hunting or clearing land for farming. Should you decide to travel to Uganda, check out </span><span style="color: #93c47d;"><a href="http://www.naturelinksafaris.co.ug/"><span style="color: #93c47d;">http://www.naturelinksafaris.co.ug/</span></a>.</span><span style="color: #6aa84f;"> They are a small local tour group, reliable and honest, and they made our visit to Uganda special.</span></b><div>
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<b><span style="color: #45818e;">The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water ~Buganda Proverb</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Suddenly summer is on the wane, asters, goldenrods and cool season grasses are blooming. Time to look back on the summer that was. I garden for the birds and the bees. An all out effort for hummingbirds the last two years has made my yard a riot of Salvias and Lobelias. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Fennel, parsley and milkweeds are larval hosts for Swallowtails and Monarchs respectively, and as a volunteer for the Long Island Native Plant Initiative, I have spent the last four years adding many Long Island Ecotypic plants to the mix. To make room for these, I have extirpated aggressive and invasive plants that provided no wildlife value. If it doesn't attract buzz or flutter, it wont grow here for long..</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">The stars of this years garden were the two female Ruby Throated Hummingbirds, <i>Archilocus colubrus</i>, that visited almost daily during July and August. Mission Hummingbird was a success! Not only Lobeliaa and Salvias, but Cardinal Climber, Scarlet Runner Bean, Hyacinth Bean Vines, Monarda <i>Jacob Cline</i> and Zinnias were planted to attract them. I'd know they were coming by their staccato chirps and buzzing wings. Sometimes they would come right up to me.</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>The river is bifurcated by Montauk Highway, and </b></span><b style="color: #6aa84f;">flows through a culvert under the highway. T</b><b style="color: #6aa84f;">herefor there is no boating access between the upper and lower portions of the river. The upper Carmans River is accessed through Southhaven County Park. </b><br />
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<b style="color: #6aa84f;">The lower Carmans Rier flows through the Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge, but there is no access through the refuge. Paddlers launch the lower river at a privately owned dock on Montauk Highway, which charges for parking, rents canoes and kayaks, and gives tours. Use is free however, for Brookhaven Town residents. </b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">The lower Carmans River has its charms. There are secluded canals and byways with wildlife, but as the river heads towards the bay it becomes more and more open water, edged with Phragmites communis. Therefore, when I have time, I prefer the meandering upper river...</span></b><br />
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<b style="color: #6aa84f;">Lower Carmans River in the spring..</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">The upper river passage requires two cars, or a willing spouse/friend to pick you up at Southhaven County Park. Stop in at the park boathouse, pay the 3$ per boat fee, and they will direct you to the launch site, a few miles up-river.</span></b><br />
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<b style="color: #76a5af;">This national seashore was established by congress in 1971, to protect the natural environment as well as historical structures and archaeological sites. </b><b style="color: #76a5af;">Beautiful beyond belief, the sugar white sands and turquoise seas of these barrier islands </b><b style="color: #76a5af;">stretch 160 miles from Cat Island Mississippi to Okaloosa area, east of Fort Walton Beach Florida. </b><b style="color: #76a5af;">I visited this wonder in the Pensacola, Florida area last March, so these are early spring impressions.</b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #93c47d;">Birds love perching on the snags..this is the "snag gallery"</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #76a5af;"><b>We are sixteen days from the Vernal Equinox (March 20th) and since this winter has been the snowiest in recent memory, Polar Vortex inspired beauty abounded. I don't let the weather stop me from rambling..and there are many beautiful refuges and seashores to explore. So here is a potpourri of photos taken on Long Island winter rambles.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #76a5af;"><b>Cranberry Bog Preserve is a 165 acre refuge in Riverhead, New York. There is a mile long loop trail around Swezey Pond, which was made by damming the Little Peconic River to produce a bog for Cranberry growing venture. In the warm moths Lady Slippers and other native plants, including rare bog plants, can be found. On this day, all was white and still except for the whistle of a Kingfisher.</b></span><div>
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<span style="color: #76a5af;"><b>The Elizabeth Morton Wildlife Refuge is a 187 acre penninsula on Noyack and Little Peconic Bays. It is best known for it's stunning waterfront and for friendly birds. </b></span><b style="color: #76a5af;">Unfortunately the refuge is being over run by invasive plants..most notably mile-a-minute vine </b><b style="color: #76a5af;">Despite new signs everywhere, saying "don't feed the wildlife" folks still come to feed the birds and they are tame. </b></div>
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<br /><b><span style="color: #e06666;">But I had better luck having ducks pose for me, near the Smithpoint Bridge, over Bellport Bay. Smithpoint is the gateway to the Fire Island National seashore.</span></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #76a5af;"><b>Ducks are not the only wildlife to overwinter on Long Island..Seal cruises offered by the Riverhead Foundation, leave from the Freeport Town dock in Nassau County, to explore Hempstead Bay. On the day I went out we found a group of 45 Harbor Seals. Harbor Seals can also be seen on foot, at Cupsogue Beach in Suffolk County.</b></span></div>
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<b> Opuntia are </b><b>also known as Nopales, from Nahuatle word, nopalli, referring to the 'paddles', Paddle Cactus or Prickly Pear (for it's fruit). </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #93c47d; font-size: small;"><b>Although the common Aloe houseplant look like Agaves, I learned that they are examples of convergent evolution, and are very different plants. The Aloes are "old world" plants, native to Sub-Saharan Africa, the Agaves are native to the Southwest. </b></span><b style="color: #93c47d; font-size: medium; text-align: center;">Agaves and Yuccas are Monocarpic..flowering only once in their lifetimes</b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">The North Rim of the Grand Canyon had always been my dream..so it's a good thing I started my trip there..as the government shutdown kept me from proceeding to the South Rim..Thus, there will be no blog, the sequel..Grand Canyon South Rim. Can't say it wasn't exciting to be a part of government incompetence..</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">But I am always seeking ecosystems..After driving through the desert and reaching the higher elevations of North Rim, the Boreal and Ponderosa forests were a cool surprise.. The Ponderosa Forest is found at an elevation of 8,000-7,200 ft, about the elevation of the Lodge..</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I have known of the existence of <i>The Baiting Hollow Hummingbird Sanctuary</i> for some time, but had never visited. This year however, I was determined, would be the "Year of the hummingbird"..and next year too..and the year after..well, you get the idea! </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Previously I would see one hummigbird, once a year in my garden, if I was lucky..At least I knew they came through. <i>This</i> year I planted <i>Lobelia cardinalis</i> (Cardinal Flower) and <i>Salvia coccinea </i>(Red Salvia), both native plants, and the hummers came..and stayed. I had daily sightings over a three week period. In the midst of that excitement, I decided to up the thrill and learning levels and visit the Hummingbird Sanctuary..I was not disappointed!</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The sanctuary is privately run and opened to the public free of charge during the month of August, other times by appointment. If you are on Long Island, or plan to be in the area at that time of year, here is a link to sanctuary information. <a href="http://lihummer.org/">http://lihummer.org/</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>You have to check the blog <a href="http://bhhummer.blogspot.com/">http://bhhummer.blogspot.com/</a> day-of to be sure the sanctuary is opened and you will have to sign a liability waiver, due to legal issues with neighbors, I believe..I am new to all this too..so please read carefully! Even if you are not planning to visit, the sanctuary website and accompanying blog provides a wealth of information..such as lists of hummingbird-friendly plants and sources to obtain them. </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>One has to admire, and be grateful to, Professor Paul Adams, of Stony Brook University, who provides this selfless service to birds, humans and the environment.</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Like Rachel Carson, I am afraid that one season I will find myself in the midst of a silent spring..or a silent summer, and so each winged creature is noted with pleasure..An imperfect and unfinished season of butterfly observations is presented here.. Last year's irruption of Painted Ladies has not reoccured....</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Cabbage Whites have been plentiful, and whilst I used to regard them with disdain, their ethereal color and random playfullness has endeared them to me..We might as well appreciate what remains..</span></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: small;">On Dittany (False Oregano) <i>Origanum dictamnus, a</i> native plant volunteer</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: small;"><b>Dreamy Duskywing, (<i>Erynnis icelus</i>) an early spring woodland skipper</b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: small;">Delaware Skipper (<i>Anatrytone logan</i>) in a dream world of Catchfly (<i>Silene armeria</i>), non-native</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: small;">And a close relative, Tiger Swallowtail (<i>Papilio glaucus</i>)<br />on <i>Zinnia elegans</i>. Zinnas are native to Mexico.</span></b></td></tr>
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<br /><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">I have seen only one Monarch..at the New York Botanical Garden native plant installation..that despite having several milkweed species in my garden..which usually sport monarch caterpillars...Other butterflies seen (and identified) but not recorded here..Common Wood Nymph (Cercyonis pegala) and Alfalfa Butterfly (Colias eurytheme)</span></b><br /><div>
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<b><span style="color: #45818e;">Fast forward to June and serendipity....Another Wood Duck sighting..this time at Avalon Nature Preserve in Stony Brook, N.Y... A native plant restoration project. <a href="http://www.avalonparkandpreserve.org/">http://www.avalonparkandpreserve.org/</a><br /></span></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11648992524079593966noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410834873935437376.post-57133994663706568712013-05-08T08:13:00.000-07:002013-05-08T08:13:57.164-07:00Some Butterflies of Panama<br />
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<b style="color: #6aa84f;">And indeed, several were found along this rain-forest path. Butterflies were in abundance wherever the white-clover like flower you will see in most of the pictures was growing. It is of the Gomphrena genus, but I have been unable to identify the species... The guides at Canopy Lodge, in Valle De Anton, where these pictures were taken, are knowledgeable and could identify the butterflies and most of the plants..but this white Gomphrena was an exception..</b></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>Canopy Lodge is in El Valle De Anton..away up in the mountains from the palm trees and coastal breezes. It is n</b></span><b style="color: #6aa84f;">estled in a rainforest where one can watch the birds at banana feeders from the common areas, or from your own front porch..and of course, take hiking excursions to observe numerous avian species..</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">The little female flew into a door one day, despite our spider web decals..but she was rescued and flew away...to be seen again each and every day</span></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: small;">Three Titmice </span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: small;"><b>Two Song Sparrows..isn't nature's camouflage grand?</b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: small;"><b>Four Black Capped Chickadees.. they like the bare Buddleia <br />whilst they crack open sunflower seeds</b></span></td></tr>
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<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">I finally made it to the Bosque Del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, along with 42,000 Snow Geese, 6,500 Cranes and 2 Eagles, but who's counting..Who <i>was</i> counting? </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">First up was a bird-spotting cruise on Elephant Butte lake..yes, butte..stop laughing... This is a man-made reservoir used by New mexico, Northern Mexico and Texas.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">The birds were mostly in the distance too, and since water levels were very low, we couldn't get much closer.. We spotted birds..lots of Eared Grebe spots, a Great Blue Heron or two surveying the scene from far, far away..and White Pelican dots..There were also thousands of Western Grebes and some Clark's Grebes too (I was told)..</span></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: small;">Tiger Swallowtail on garden Dahlia..</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: small;"><b>How many butterflies can dance on the head of a flower?<br />Northern Pearly Crescent on Small White Aster,<br /><i>Symphotrichium racemosa </i>(native, in the garden).</b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">the Monarch..</span></h4>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">Having now migrated and left us to the Autumn..</span></h4>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: small;"><b>Mid-Summer on Butterfly Weed ,<i> Asclepias tuberosa,</i> native, in the garden.</b></span></td></tr>
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