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9/4/02

Nature notebook

SMN
Birds:

° Yellow-bellied flycatcher, Canada warbler, black and white warbler, hooded warbler, norhtern parula, blue-winged warbler, chestnut-sided warbler, yellow warbler prairie warbler, blackburnian warbler, oven bird and northern waterthrush ( Jackson Park, Hendersonville 8/31 Bob Olthoff)

° Solitary sandpiper and immature bald eagle (Icard Dam Bridge on Lake Hickory 8/31, reported from Carolina birds listserv)

° Killdeer, spotted sandpiper, semipalmated sandpiper, western sandpiper, least sandpiper, Forster’s tern (Lovelady access on Lake Hickory 8/31, reported from Carolina birds listserv)

° Double-crested cormorant, great egret, snowy egret, cattle egret, blue-winged teal, American golden plover, lesser yellowlegs, solitary sandpiper, spotted sandpiper, least sandpiper (Rankin Bottoms, Cocke Co. TN 8/31 reported from Tennessee birds listserv)

° Cerulean warbler, black-throated green warbler, worm-eating warbler, Canada warbler, northern waterthrush, blue-headed vireo and red-eyed vireo (boat ramp on French Broad at intersection of Highway 25/70 and Brush Creek Road near Rankin Bottoms, 8/31 reported fromTennessee listserv.


Bugs:

°Butterflies - pipevine swallowtail, spicebush swallowtail, black swallowtail, eastern tiger swallowtail, checkered white, clouded sulphur, orange sulphur, cloudless sulphur, summer azure, eastern tailed-blue, pearl crescent, common buckeye, Carolina satyr, viceroy, monarch, silver-spotted skipper, least skipper, sachem ( Rankin Bottoms, Cocke Co. TN. 8/31 from Tennessee listserv)

° Dragonflies - eastern amberwing, twelve-spotted skimmer, common whitetail, slaty skimmer and eastern pondhawk (Ferguson fields in Swain County 8/30, Don Hendershot)


Wildflowers:

° Cardinal flower, Lobelia cardinalis; boneset, Eupatorium perfoliatum; pale-leaved sunflower, Helianthus strumosus; green-headed coneflower, Rudbeckia lacinata; two species of goldenrod, I believe to be rough-stemmed goldenrod, Solidago rugosa and tall goldenrod, Solidago canadensis but I didn’t have a key with me (at the entrance to the BRP off US 23/74, 8/30 Don Hendershot)

° White wood aster, Aster divaricatus; New England aster, Aster novae-angliae; cornel-leaved aster, Aster infirmus, whorled wood aster, Aster acuninatus; Silverrod, Solidago bicolor; and cowbane, Oxypolis rigidior ( seepage area at Scott’s Creek Overlook along BRP)