Vista Trail, Rouge Park: July 2021

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The Vista Trail runs west of the Little Rouge Creek.

Muskrat

Some birds:

Song Sparrow
Eastern Kingbird
American Robin
Song Sparrow

MYSTERY BIRD

I will identify it at the end of the post.

Some botany:

Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria)
Roses
Daisy Fleabane (Erigeron annuus)
Bush-honeysuckle (Diervilla lonicera)
Red Baneberry (Actaea rubra)
Poison Ivy (Toxicodendron rydbergii)
Pointed-leaved Tick-trefoil (Desmodium glutinosum)
Purple-flowering Raspberry (Rubus odoratus)
Poke Milkweed (Asclepias exaltata)
Yarrow (Achillea millefolia)
Indian-hemp (Apocynum cannabinum)
Sensitive Fern
Pointed-leaved Tick-trefoil (Desmodium glutinosum)
Bladder Campion (Silene vulgaris)
Thimbleweed (Anemone canadensis)
Honeysuckle (Lonicera)
Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)

a Poison Ivy look-alike

Hog-peanut (Amphicarpaea bracteata)
Yellow Bedstraw (Galium verum)
Christmas Fern
Staghorn Sumac (Rhus typhina)
Timothy (Phleum pratense)
Rattlesnake-root (Prenathes alba)

MYSTERY BIRD

Warm reddish brown above with a conspicuous white eyebrow stripe indicates a Carolina Wren.

Carolina Wren

SONG LYRICS

Butterflies all flutter up
And kiss each little buttercup
At dawning
If I had Aladdin’s lamp
For only a day
I’d make a wish
And here’s what I’d say

Nothing could be finer
Than to be in Carolina
In the morning. – Gus Kahn (1886 – 1941)

Miles Hearn


3 thoughts on “Vista Trail, Rouge Park: July 2021”

  1. Charles Bruce-Thompson

    Hi Miles,

    Have you ever seen so much gypsy moth activity? The willows, oaks and poplars seem to be the worst affected

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  2. Lisa Volkov

    Gorgeous place! Beautiful botany and birds! So now I know what a Carolina Wren looks like (we’ve heard them) close up. What a lovely-looking bird. Thanks, Miles!

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