Squam Swamp in mid-July

Looking almost fall-like,  with mushrooms and fungi

Indian pipes

 

Fourth of July in the Middle Moors

Smells of swamp azalea, privet, honeysuckle
The middle of  arrowwood viburnum time...St Johnswort coming on
Stands of colicroot at Windswept Cranberry Bog

In the moors,  Indian pipes and pyrola rotundifolia

Windswept Cranberry Bog and Stump Pond

Wild Iris,  Blue Flag,  heaven

 

 

The first Swamp Azalea (Azalea Viscosa)  of the season on the west end of Stump Pond,  and Sheep Laurel  (Kalmia Angustifolia)   from the east end  

 

 

And Polygala Polyglama,  Racemed Milkwort

 



Squam Swamp in HighWater Time

Black White Warblers, Yellowthroats,  Yellow Warblers
Great Crested Flycatchers
Woodcocks
Towhees, Catbirds
Pitcher Plants
Ox Eye Daisies,  Blue eyed Grass

Yellow Moors

It's yellow time in Nantucket... the moors are covered with  yellow Hudsonia,  the Scotch broom  is popping along the bike paths, and the first ox-eye daisies are showing their centers. 

 

 

At Masquetuck, Black and White Warbler seen;  many yellowthroats heard,  and a Great Crested Flycatcher heard.    I flushed a Little Blue Heron  on Saturday June 1.  Wild blackberries and bluets blooming.    Cow-wheat covering the understory.

 

 

 

At Squam Swamp, the birding group saw a red-eyed vireo after listening to its persistent song.  Charlotte an I went in to the swamp to seethe Jack in the Pulpits.  We birders also saw an American redstart at the Wauwinet and Squam Road intersection.   Wild geraniums dotted the understory.

 

 

Evening walk in Squam Swamp:  Fiddleheads and Wood Anemones