New Year's Day 2010
Watery portal (Borden Pond leveling drain)
Turtlehead pods
A gift from young visitors
Coyote tracks, 1.9.10
Lasting impression...coyote footprint
Shapeshift, Coyote's Trail
Beaver lodge, 1.9.10
Ice shelves
GM Walk, 1.17.10
Photographing ice formations
Ice cave
Tree fungus
Fungi remnants, 1.17.10
Beaver lodge
Winter signs
Great blue heron footprints
Muskrat lodge
GM walk, 2.13.10
Sweet gale, male flower 2.15.10
Sweet gale, female pods
Sweet gale, female
Muskrat feeding platform
Multi-story yellow warbler's nest
Solar leaf impressions
Ice swan
Ice platforms in floodplain forest
Ice edge...illuminated world
Ice scour
Fungus ID anyone?
Buttonbush at river's edge
Mature black gum tree
Black gum grove
Early riser - skunk cabbage
Breach, 3.7.10
Central dike trail
Dike trail
First caddisfly hatch
Frozen stars
Muskrat
Lycopodium submerged
Red squirrel
Winter skirt, red oaks
Lycopodium obscurum
Old walls
Split rock, stone turtle
Outlet
Dike Trail, east end
High water, 3.9.10
Inlet channel -- ice out
Silky dogwood
Silver maples in floodplain
One of MANY muskrats
3.9.10
Black Crappie
Muskrat lodge alley
Silver maple, male (staminate) flowers
Speckled alder bud
Speckled alder, male and female flower buds
Dusky cattail glow
Waters rising, 3.16.10
Upstream, 3.16.10
Old North Bridge
Boat House, Old Manse 3.16.10
Water over the Bridge, 3.17.10
Upstream, off Monument St.
Downstream from Monument St.
River crests, 3.17.10
Susan Russo inspects the flooding
Red maples
Dike trail entrance
Brochures get dunked
Bay Circuit Trail bench
To Edge Trail east
Edge Trail east
Edge Trail, east
Final word!
Edge Trail west
Parking lot entrance, 3.17 at 5 pm
Dike trail, 3.21.10
Garter snake
Overwintered cattail seeds
Parking lot reopens, 3.21.10
Touching - Skunk Cabbage
Wintergreen
Dike trail, east
Timber Trail
Old pine
View from road to Edge Trail east
Washed out culvert
GM walk, 3.21.10
Ribbon ice in GM parking lot
Spring suspense
GM walkers, 3.27.10
Ice feathers
Polypody fern
Edge Trail, "wetlands" overlook
Spring ice flower, 3.27.10
Flood waters, 4.2.10
Paddling into the parking lot
Flood tour, 4.3.10
Western impoundment looking east
Submerged Borden Pond trail
Red maple
Western entrance
River boat ramp
View from boat ramp
Flooding across from boat ramp
Hutchin's Farm
Hutchin's Farm shorefront
Concord River near GM
Entering over boat ramp
GM April walk
Carp invasion
Chickadees readying their nest
Poison ivy seed pods and new leaves
Dame's rocket (Hesperis matronalis)
Shadbush leaf buds
Receding flood waters
European mountain ash
Spring azure (Celastrina ladon)
Partridge berry
Shagbark hickory leaves
Timber Trail bench
Dike Trail
Lady fern fiddleheads
Screech owl
Hop hornbeam grove
Crab apple buds
Dead snapping turtle
Walkers and cattail refugees
Cattails upended, 4.25.10
Arrowwood (Viburnum dentatum)
Wood Anemone (Anemone quinquefolia)
Common blue violet
Common blue violet, beards
Black gum (Nyssa sylvatica)
Northern downy violet (Viola frimbriatula)
Big-tooth aspen (Populus grandidentata)
Grackles in twilight, 5.4.10
Sensitive fern
Equisetum
Red-winged blackbird
False baptisia and ladybugs
Mama goose sheltering five chicks
Silver maple samara (fruits)
Morrow's honeysuckle (Lonicera morrowii), 5.6.10
Canada mayflower (Maianthemum canadensis)
Wild oats (Uvularia sessilifolia)
American hazelnut (Corylus americana)
Early blue violet (Viola palmata)
Autumn olive (Elaeagnus umbellata)
Fused red and white oaks
Twilight Walk, 5.7.10
Canada goose family bedding down
Poison Ivy, 5.9.10
Poison Ivy - watch your step
Least sandpiper, 5.9.10
Great blue enjoying the rain
Heavenly crepuscular rays
Display
Marsh wren
Annual Concord birdwalk
Wood duck family
Breeding northern water snakes
May monthly walk, 5.29.10
Bryan Windmiller with Blanding's Turtle
European spindletree, 5.24.10
Wood duck family at dawn
Dawn weavers
Female snapper digging nest
Female snapping turtle looking to nest
Sunrise
Swan at dawn
Early morning mist
Morning preening
Silver maple forest
Webs
Kingbird
Geese arriving
Dew on multiflora rose leaves
Moment of Zen - water
Moment of Zen - stones
Catfish
Marooned cattails
Heart rock in flow
False Indigo, 5.24.10
Great blue heron
Mallard
Spring vista
Tufted loosestrife (Lysimachia thyrsiflora), 5.24.10
Tufted loosestrife, 5.24.10
Common buttercup
Ragged robin
Buttonbush
Wolffia and pollen
Rosy sunset
Multiflora rose
Common bladderwort (Utricularia macrorhiza)
Pickerel weed, 6.19.10
GM Monthly walk, 6.20.10
Black swallowtail caterpillar on Milk parsley
Giant bur-reed (Sparganium eurycarpum)
Downy swamp milkweed
Common mullein, 6.20.10
Mullein
Green frog
Engelmann's arrowhead (Sagittaria engelmanniana)
Bullhead lily
Pickerel weed
Fragrant water lily
Young American lotus leaf
Droplets on lotus leaf
Amidst lotuses
Beaver lodge and GB heron
Termites find waterlogged wwod, 6.27.10
Buttonbush, 7.10.10
Narrow-leaved cattail (female/male flowers)
Showy tick-trefoil (Desmodium canadense)
Milk parsley (Peucedanum palustre)
American lotus (Nelumbo lutea)
Great blue heron with fish
Common skullcap
Bugleweed (Ajuga repens)
Wild rice
Dragonfly silhouette, 7.10.10
Common whitetail (Libellula lydia) dragonfly
Common whitetail dragonfly, female?
Eastern amberwing (Perithemis tenera) dragongly
Twelve-spotted skimmer (Libellula pulchella) dragonfly
Dragonfly sp.
Halloween pennant dragonfly (Celithemis eponina)
Monarch and swamp milkweed
River, low water
Supports for new observation deck
Summer evening
First cardinal flower, 7.12.10
Pearl crescent butterfly, 7.13.10
Monthly walkers gather, 7.25.10
Walkers explore the dike trail
7.25.10
Lotus
American lotus
Widow skimmer (Libellula luctuosa)
Cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis)
Swamp rose-mallow (Hibiscus moscheutos)
Caterpillar hunters checking alder for harvester butterfly larva, 7.25.10
Harvester butterfly caterpillar (center) eating wooly aphids on alder
Caterpillar walk participants
Sam Jaffe and hog sphinx on grape
Spicebush sphinx caterpillar on sassafras
Looking for spicebush swallowtail caterpillar
Red-spotted purple caterpillar on cherry
Rising moon and caterpillar hunters
Black-crowned night heron
Showy tick-trefoil seeds
River sunset
Turkey roosting
Lotus view
Black-crowned night herons
Venus in the afterglow
Chickory, 8.7.10
Water-plantain (Alisma subcordatum)
Water-plantain (Alisma sp.), basal leaves
Polygonum sp.
Common milkweed pods
Evening primrose
Blooming mudflats
Arrowleaf flowers (Sagitarria sp.)
Lotus leaf
Lotus bud
American lotus bud
Lotus field
Lotus blossom
Omniscience - lotus pod
Lotus pod
Lady's thumb
Sunset walk, 8.7.10
Sunset view
Bumblebee (Bombus impatiens) on Devil's beggar-ticks (Bidens frondosa)
New observation platform, 9.6.10
Common eastern bumblebee on joe-pye weed
Foxtail barley (Hordeum jubatum)
Turtleheads (Chelone glabra)
Shell of freshwater snail
Marsh St. Johnswort (Triadenum virginicum), 9/12/10
Wild cucumber (Echinocystis lobata)
Swamp milkweed
Milkweed aphids (Aphis nerii) and a grazing ladybug larva
Pearl crescent butterfly (Phyciodes tharos)
Climbing false buckwheat
Nodding bur-marigold (Bidens cernua)
Pilewort
Ants and wooly aphids on alder branches
Cut-leaved grape fern (Botrychium dissectum), fertile frond
Base of cut-leaved grape fern (Botrychium dissectum)
Cut-leaved grape fern (Botrychium dissectum), fertile and sterile fronds
White turtlehead (Cheloni glabra)
White turtlehead (Chelone glabra) and Marsh St. Johnswort pods (Triadenum virginicum)
Three-seeded mercury (Acalypha rhomboidea)
Atriplex sp.
Purple-leaved willow herb (Epilobium coloratum), 9/18/10
Beetle on goldenrod, 9.15.10
Cut-leaved grape fern (Botrychium dissectum), sterile frond
Grapes
Devil's beggar-ticks (Bidens frondosa)
Lotus leaf reflections, 9.15.10
Jewelweed pod
Jewelweed seeds - Robin's egg blue surprise
Swamp or silky dogwood (Cornus amonum)
Graceful common milkweed seed
Comma butterfly
Refill, 9.29.10
Dogwood Sawfly larva (Macremphytus testaceus), 10.3.10
Ganoderma lucidum on silver maple
Common three-seed mercury (Acalypha rhomboidea)
Leaf miners
Honeysuckle, late bloomer
Wild cucumber (Echinocystis lobata) fruit with seed
Dried wild cucumber (Echinocystis lobata)
Swamp rose hips
Swamp mallow pods
View west from lower impoundment
Blue mushroom
Blue-stemmed goldenrod (Solidago caesia)
Water-pepper (Persicaria hyropiper), 10.12.10
Purplestem beggarticks (Bidens connata)
Lady's thumb (Polygonum caespitosum)
Watching fall migrants
Nightshade leaves (Solanum dulcamara)
Nightshade fruit (Solanum dulcamara)
Royal fern (Osmunda regalis)
Water pump, 10.12.10
Silver maple leaves
Autumn movement
Cattail seeds take flight
Wild rice, 10.23.10
Harrier hunting
10.23.10
Color layers
Muskrat lodges in the lotus field
Buttonbush seed heads
Umbel essence - Milk Parsley
American hornbeam (Carpinus caroliniana)
Pin cherry var.?
Ruby-crowned kinglet (female?)
Arrowwood
Bathing savannah sparrow
Observation deck
Silver maple roots
Silver maple
River birch
Concord River
Great Meadows looking west
Observation platform
Sparrow
Edge Trail
American chestnut
Sweet pepperbush glow
Bay Circuit Trail at GM
River reflections
Floodplain forest
Mums
GM December walkers