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**Fred Richards comments, “It
feels like spring here in Taylor Village the last couple of days.
There have been a lot of moths on our porch. Today Sue and I were putting
up a deer fence to protect some young apple trees, and the mosquitoes were out
in abundance. The young trees had new leaves sprouting. Tonight, Sue
called me out to see something. A leopard frog was on the
porch. Seemed quite happy and active. I do not know if this is
proof of global warming, but it sure is impressive. November 6th.
Wow!"
**Georges Brun captured common
eiders flying over the Riverview Marsh Friday morning. He estimates the
flock was approximately 125-130 birds.
He comments, “They must have
exceptional radar flying in gray skies and foggy weather.”
**Leigh Eaton advises the Humphrey
Brook Trail east of Mill Road is undergoing a major upgrade with widening, bank
retention, and a new bridge.
Leigh recently walked this
trail for the first time and navigated the bridge on a girder as the bridge
work was still underway.
He spotted a couple of bald-faced
hornet nests, both 4-5 feet off the ground.
There appear to be a lot
of burls on many of the trees along the trail.
(Editor’s note: Leigh’s
photo does look like a specific burl, but burls are the result of so many
causes, from insects, fungus, tree damage, etc that it is often difficult to
specifically label them.
Leigh observed numerous virgin’s
bower expired plants and old man’s beard lichen, but very little evidence of
wildlife except for black-capped chickadees and red-breasted nuthatches.
**In a follow-up to Gabriel Gallant’s
comments about hearing spring peepers in yesterday’s edition, Nelson Poirier
was on a woods trail on Friday and heard a spring peeper vocalizing as well,
and videotaped the sound. It was distant and a close listen may be indicated.
It was interesting that the Merlin app was running and it heard it clearly, but it did not respond, as expected.
Single spring peepers are well documented to vocalize on warm days in late fall.
Are they adults tuning up
for next spring or immatures on a practice run? The peepers are the only ones
that know!
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