Saturday, May 28, 2016

Sunday, May 22, 2016

Middle Moors Hike May 22 2016



Birds Foot Violets, Viola Pedata


Black Huckleberry Gaylussacia Baccata

Bearberry

Hudsonia Ericoides,  Golden Heather

Beach Plum


Huckleberry

 Pout Pond Viola Lanceolata

Trailing Arbutus

Epigea Repens

Quaker Ladies, Hedyotis Caerulea


Sqaum Swamp Spring May 21 2016

Squam Swamp

Cinnamon Fern Rising

Early Canada Mayflower

Maeanthemum Canadense



Quaker Ladies, Hedyotis caerulea






Star flowers, Trientalis borealis, cover the forest floor

Tupelos

The Rapids



Squam Swamp violet, viola lanceolata

Sunday, May 1, 2016

Daffodil Weekend

April 29-May 1, 2016

Friday beach walk to Sconset:  200 black scoters diving,  2 northern gannets swooping and one seal a-swimming

Sunday Hike at Norwood Pond:  Ponds overfull,  with Almanac Pond flooded over both approaches

Amelanchier-  Shad Blow- brightening the Moors

Shad Blow-  Norwood Farm

Add caption

Towhee in Shad at Norwood Farm



Birds foot violets 



....and Buttercups








Female Bufflehead 

Fiddlehead emerging

Mayflowers-  not yet blooming on May 1

Almanac Pond-  spring flood