Foggy morning start on the bluffside Image - Kris Lawson |
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At Frontenac State Park Nature School |
- alyssum, hoary
Dewy white heath aster - aster, blue wood
- aster, calico
- aster, Drummond’s
- aster, hairy
- aster, large-leaved
- aster, silky
- aster, smooth blue
- aster, white heath
- aster, white panicle
- black-eyed Susan
- blazing star, rough
- boneset, false
- buttercup, prairie
- cardinal flower
- cliffbrake, western dwarf
Drug eyebright
Ely MN - compassplant
- coneflower, grey-headed
- everlasting, pearly
- eyebright, drug
- fern, brittle bladder-
- fern, bulblet bladder-
- fern, interrupted
- fern, lady
- fern, northern maidenhair
- fern, sensitive
- fern, spinulose wood
- fern, sweet
- fleabane, prairie
- hawkweed, narrowleaf
- hawkweed, orange
- hawkweed, smooth
- Jerusalem, artichoke
- jewelweed, orange
- jewelweed, yellow
- goldenrod, Canada
- goldenrod, elmleaf
- goldenrod, field
- goldenrod, giant
- goldenrod, gray
- goldenrod, Missouri
Whorled milkweed flower - goldenrod, showy
- goldenrod, stiff
- goldenrod, tall
- goldenrod, zigzag
- milkweed, whorled
- primrose, evening
- snakeroot, white
- spurge, flowering
- sunflower, fewleaf
- sunflower, false
- sunflower, stiff
- tansy, common
- thistle, field
- vervain, blue
- vervain, hoary
- violet, bird’sfoot
- wild bergamot
- wormwood, field
- woundwort, marsh
- yarrow
- bushclover, roundhead
- cinquefoil, tall
- coreopsis, prairie
Goat’s rue, Ely MN - fameflower
- goat's rue
- goldenrod, showy
- Jack-in-the pulpit
- leadplant
- loosestrife, fringed
- milkweed, common
- partridge pea
- Pasqueflower, eastern
- puccoon, hairy (Carolina)
- sagebrush, white
- sweet cecily
- tarragon,
- thimbleweed, cylindrical
Fruited:
- bittersweet, American
- carrionflower, midwestern
- cucumber, wild
Midwestern carrionflower fruit - prairie rose
- Solomon's seal, false
- spikenard, American
- cattail
- flatsedge, tall
- grass, bluestem big
- grass, bluestem little
- grass, eyelash
- grass, beardless wildrye
- grass, Canada wildrye
- grass, prairie dropseed
- grass, smooth brome
- indiangrass, yellow
- lovegrass, purple
- panicgrass, Scribner’s
- switchgrass
- cryptobiotic soil crust (cyanobacteria, mosses, lichen, algae, microfungi)
- feathermoss, red-stemmed
- forkmoss, broom
- lichen, eastern specked shield
Chicken of the woods - lichen, hooded sunburst
- lichen, mortar dot
- lichen, orange firedot
- mushroom, amanita, false death cap
- mushroom, artist's conk
- mushroom, blew it
- mushroom, bolete, slippery jack
- mushroom, chicken of the woods
- mushroom, deceiver, purple-gilled
- mushroom, dryad's saddle
- mushroom, fairy fingers, purple
- mushroom, flat oysterling
- mushroom, funnel cup
- mushroom, golden trumpet (fuzzy foot)
- mushroom, honey
- mushroom, inky
- mushroom, lactarius (milkcap)
Stocking webcap mushroom - mushroom, lobster
- mushroom, mycena, orange
- mushroom, oyster
- mushroom, puffball
- mushroom, rosy russula
- mushroom, shaggy mane inky cap
- mushroom, stocking webcap
- mushroom, russula, rosy (bloody brittle gill)
- mushroom, turkey tail
- mushroom, yellow club
Birds:
- blackbird, red-winged
- blue jay
- bluebird, eastern
- cardinal, northern
- cedar waxwing
- chickadee, black-capped
- crow, American
- eagle bald
- finch, house
- goldfinch, American
- grosbeak, rose-breasted
- grouse, ruffed
- hawk, red-tailed
- killdeer
- kingfisher, belted
- lark, horned
- nuthatch, red-breasted
- nuthatch, white-breasted
Palm warbler
Image - Merlin Bird ID - ovenbird
- owl, barred
- pheasant, ring-necked
- raven
- robin, American
- sparrow, house
- sparrow, Lincoln's
- sparrow, savanna
- sparrow, swamp
- sparrow, vesper
- sparrow, white-throated
- thrush, hermit
- thrush, gray-cheeked
- thrush, water
- vireo, red-eyed
- vireo, yellow-throated
- warbler, palm
- warbler, yellow-rumped
- wood pewee, eastern
- woodpecker, hairy
- woodpecker, pileated
- woodpecker, red-bellied
- woodpecker, red-headed
- crane, sandhill
- goose, Canada
- heron, great blue
- loon, common
- pelican, American
- teal, blue-winged
- wood duck
- beetle, end band net-winged
- beetle, goldenrod soldier
Leonard’s skipper butterfly
Image - Kris Lawson - bumblebee, brown-belted
- bumblebee, common eastern
- bumblebee, half-black
- bumblebee, two-spotted
- bumblebee, yellow
- butterfly, clouded yellow
- butterfly, Leonard’s skipper
- butterfly, pearl copper
- butterfly, pearl crescent
- butterfly, regal fritillary
- butterfly, Monarch
- butterfly, mourning cloak
- caterpillar, milkweed tussock moth
- damselfly, tule bluet
- dragonfly, autumn meadowhawk
- dragonfly, green darner
- dragonfly, black saddlebags
What are YOU seeing on your hikes?
A month of hikes
Hikes below in colored, bold type or underlined have links to previous posts OR descriptions/location of the trails found online.
Bluffside Park, Winona MN (2); Holland Sand Prairie, Holmen WI (2), Frontenac State Park, Old Frontenac MN (2); Weaver Sand Dunes, Kellogg, MN (2); Wagon Wheel Trail, La Crescent MN; Hubbard Hills, Viroqua WI; Riverside Park/Marsh Trails, La Crosse WI (2); Amnicon Falls State Park, Superior WI; Echo Trail Road, Ely, MN; Gunflint Trail Road, Grand Marais, MN; Lytle's Landing, Brice Prairie WI, La Crosse River State Trail, La Crosse WI
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Undulating sand dunes at Kellogg Weaver Dunes Image -Nola Larson |
The "I Spy on the Trails" column is a phenology (the study of seasonal changes in plants and animals) journal to chronicle year-round the weather, plant life and wildlife I observe while hiking. It is very useful in helping me compare observations from year-to-year. The column is published monthly from September through April and then twice-a-month from May through August when warm weather brings the natural world back to vibrant life.
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What bee is that? Image - Kris Lawson |
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