For the past week or so I’ve been noticing a lot of FLAT SPIDER WEBS in the grass — FUNNEL WEAVERS’ WEBS? Also, CAROLINA GRASSHOPPERS appeared about a week ago.
July 1979
Monthly Archive
July 30, 1979
July 29, 1979
Quite a few birds hanging around the yard near the lilac bush and suet feeder: DOWNY and HAIRY WOODPECKERS, SPARROWS.
July 24, 1979
In BLACK-EYED SUSANS, one flower head grows at the end of each stem. CHICORY — basal rosette of large dandelionlike leaves, stem tough and rough to the touch, branches, flowers grow in groups of 2-3 but only one blossom at a time.
July 16, 1979
WHIP-POOR-WILL whipping tonight.
July 12, 1979
Beginning to hear CRICKETS, GRASSHOPPERS, and CICADAS.
July 11, 1979
Saw a mother HAIRY WOODPECKER feeding a grown young one with suet this morning.
July 9, 1979
FIREWEED — magenta flowers, 4 petals and 4 narrow sepals(?), tall white stigma(?) with 4 tightly rolled structures at tip (on one flower, the roll has loosened), 8 filaments with anthers much lower than stigma, long (almost 2 inches in some) tube connecting flower to stem, leaves long and slender. Whole plant rises like a spire — longer bigger flowers toward the bottom, smaller shorter flowers toward the top. HUMMINGBIRD, HONEYBEES.
July 4, 1979
Haying in the Northeast Kingdom.
July 3, 1979
QUEEN ANNE’S LACE along the Interstate.
July 2, 1979
RED RASPBERRIES just beginning to ripen. MAIDENHAIR FERN growing in the crowded understory beneath maples among maple saplings, blue cohosh, Virginia creeper, and grass of some kind. Delicate, fragile, circular. Reddish black stalk, black branching branches holding leaflets, lower leaflets fan-shaped, more oblong as they move toward the tip, oriental looking.Three SILVERY SPLEENWORT and one LADY FERN with eyebrow spores.
