Mariton - New Crops

A new crop of wildflowers is in bloom this week.  Blue Cohosh (Caulophyllum thalictroides) has made its appearance.  Rue Anemone (Anemonella thalictroides) is blooming all over the place this week.  Last week there were just a few blossoms here and there.  Jack-in-the-Pulpit (Arisaema tryphyllum) is up and in bloom in many places.  Wild ginger (Asarum canadense) is blossoming, but the flowers are brown/purple, close to the ground and often hidden by the leaf litter.

Solomon Seal has flower buds, but they haven't opened.  I found one perfoliated bellwort blossoming, but most were just setting flower buds.  Maiden hair fern on the River Lookout Trail has come up, but is still very thin.  The Christmas Ferns and Evergreen Wood Ferns are sending up fiddleheads.

Two of the bluebird nests that were new last year have eggs.  One had three eggs, the other had one.  I imagine that both females are still laying.  The nest in the yard now has 5 eggs, and the female was sitting on nest when I checked the box. 

I am also beginning to hear warblers in the tree tops.  My ears are a little rusty.  I look forward to Tuesday morning when I will have to really get back into tune.