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Beechwood \ Don Valley: Thursday, May 12, 2016

16 degrees and sunny at the start.

Beechwood \ Don valley

Bird Highlight: Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Botany Highlight: Early Meadow Rue

Early Meadow Rue (Thalictrum dioicum)

Species list: Canada goose, mallard, wood duck, spotted sandpiper, killdeer, ring-billed gull, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, eastern kingbird, eastern phoebe, tree swallow, bank swallow, rough-winged swallow, barn swallow, blue jay, black-capped chickadee, white-breasted nuthatch, gray catbird, American robin, blue-grey gnatcatcher, warbling vireo, tennessee warbler, northern parula warbler, yellow warbler, black-throated blue warbler, yellow-rumped warbler, black-throated green warbler, house sparrow, red-winged blackbird, baltimore oriole, common grackle, brown-headed cowbird, northern cardinal, rose-breasted grosbeak,  American goldfinch, song sparrow. (36 species)

Yellow Warbler

Poison Ivy (Taxicodendron rybergii)

Trout Lily (Erythronium americanum)

Blue-grey Gnatcatcher (photo: Judy-Ann Cazemier)

False Solomon’s Seal (False Spikenard) Maiananthum racemosum)

Wild Geranium (Geranium maculatum)

Riverbank Grape (Vitis riparia)

May Apple (Podophyllum peltatum)

Baltimore Oriole

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