Nature in an Industrial Area: July 2021

milesghearn

5 years ago

You can’t get a much more industrial looking area than the Commissioners Street section near Cherry Beach.

MYSTERY BIRD

I will identify it at the end of the post.

I admire the many plant species that thrive here with no help from us.

White Sweet-clover (Melilotus alba)

Russian-olive (Elaeagnus umbellata)

Queen Anne’s-lace (Daucus carota)

Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)

Chicory (Cichorium intybus)

Showy Tick-trefoil (Desmodium canadense)

Curled Dock (Rumex crispus)

Bladder Campion (Silene vulgaris)

Showy Tick-trefoil (Desmodium canadense)

Canada Thistle (Cirsium pratense)

Riverbank Grape (Vitis riparia)

Showy Tick-trefoil (Desmodium canadense)

Canada Thistle (Cirsium pratense)

Field Sow-thistle (Sonchus arvensis)

Red-osier (Cornus sericea)

Canada Thistle (Cirsium pratense)

Tansy (Tanecetum vulgare)

Bird Vetch (Vicia cracca)

Virginia Creeper (Parthenocissus inserta)

Great Burdock (Arctium lappa)

St. John’s-wort (Hypericum perforatum)

Curled Dock (Rumex crispus)

Ninebark (Physocarpus opulifolius)

Spotted Knapweed (Centaurea stoebe)

Squirrel-tail Grass (Hordeum jubatum)

Field Sow-thistle (Sonchus arvensis)

Birdfoot Trefoil (Lotus corniculatis)

Tree-of-heaven (Ailanthus altissima)

Quack Grass (Elymus repens)

White Campion (Silene latifolia)

Tree-of-heaven (Ailanthus altissima)

Bull Thistle (Cirsium vulgare)

Cottonwood (Populus deltoides)

MYSTERY BIRD

Note the heavy black “sideburns”. A Peregrine Falcon

Peregrine Falcon

MAILBOX

Serene and superb 7 minute video of a beautiful spot on the Don.

NATURE POETRY

Hot July brings cooling showers, Apricots, and gillyflowers. – Sara Coleridge (1802–52)

(a gillyflower can refer to any of a number of fragrant flowers)

Miles Hearn

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