Green Ridge Forest (South)

Photos by Ken Clark, 2005/07/30.

A little brown bat resting on a tree.

Passing through a field full of wildflowers, including this Wild Bergamot.

A Spicebush Swallowtail on Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa).

Flowering Spurge (Euphorbia corollata).

Black-Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia serotina).

Winged Monkey Flower (Mimulus alatus).

We rarely spot wood turtles, but this time we found a pair! The one in back appears to have an ID hole drilled in the carapace.

Wild Sweet William or Meadow Phlox (Phlox maculata).

Rose Pink or Bitterbloom (Sabatia angularis).

For our lunchtime entertainment, Andy tells the light bulb joke to Don and Heather.

The group by our lunch swimming hole at the Long Pond "Smiling Rock." Long Pond, and the rest of Fifteen Mile Creek, was quite low today.

A female Brownish-gray Fishing Spider, holding an egg sac.

Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis).

Taking a dip at our second swimming hole stop.

The view of Fifteen Mile Creek from the swimming hole.

Climbing Fumitory, Mountain Fringe, Allegheny Vine (Adlumia fungosa).

A male Powdered Dancer damselfly.

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