https://vermontalmanac.org/wp-content/uploads/VTALMANAC_LOGO_STACK_TAG-300x150.png
0
0
Virginia Barlow
https://vermontalmanac.org/wp-content/uploads/VTALMANAC_LOGO_STACK_TAG-300x150.png
Virginia Barlow2020-04-24 15:26:452020-05-06 16:40:06Earliest warblers, just before trees leaf out: yellow-rumped, pine, palm, black-throated green, black and white, Louisiana waterthrush.
https://vermontalmanac.org/wp-content/uploads/VTALMANAC_LOGO_STACK_TAG-300x150.png
0
0
Virginia Barlow
https://vermontalmanac.org/wp-content/uploads/VTALMANAC_LOGO_STACK_TAG-300x150.png
Virginia Barlow2020-04-23 15:28:562020-05-06 16:40:13While mesmerized at a vernal pool yesterday, I saw caddisfly larvae appearing to nibble at wood frog eggs. Today I saw the same thing in another pool and though I haven’t quite been able to verify this, caddisflies are known to eat salamander eggs. I’ll be publishing a ground-breaking article on this soon. Stay tuned.
https://vermontalmanac.org/wp-content/uploads/VTALMANAC_LOGO_STACK_TAG-300x150.png
0
0
Virginia Barlow
https://vermontalmanac.org/wp-content/uploads/VTALMANAC_LOGO_STACK_TAG-300x150.png
Virginia Barlow2020-04-22 15:26:172020-05-06 16:40:19Bitterns have been heard pounding in fence posts over the past few days. Not really, but the weird glonk glonk noise they make sounds a bit like someone driving in a post.
https://vermontalmanac.org/wp-content/uploads/VTALMANAC_LOGO_STACK_TAG-300x150.png
0
0
Virginia Barlow
https://vermontalmanac.org/wp-content/uploads/VTALMANAC_LOGO_STACK_TAG-300x150.png
Virginia Barlow2020-04-21 15:22:512020-05-06 16:40:27Canada geese bugging you? I’ve been told that if you string aluminum pie plates on a rope across your pond, they will leave – for someone else’s pond.
https://vermontalmanac.org/wp-content/uploads/VTALMANAC_LOGO_STACK_TAG-300x150.png
0
0
Virginia Barlow
https://vermontalmanac.org/wp-content/uploads/VTALMANAC_LOGO_STACK_TAG-300x150.png
Virginia Barlow2020-04-20 15:22:222020-05-06 16:40:34The brilliantly purple female flowers of beaked hazelnut are so tiny that you need a magnifying glass – or your binoculars backwards. It’s worth a close look.
https://vermontalmanac.org/wp-content/uploads/VTALMANAC_LOGO_STACK_TAG-300x150.png
0
0
Virginia Barlow
https://vermontalmanac.org/wp-content/uploads/VTALMANAC_LOGO_STACK_TAG-300x150.png
Virginia Barlow2020-04-19 15:21:422020-05-06 16:40:42The question mark is the largest of the anglewing butterflies. The beautiful adults overwinter and rarely visit flowers. Instead, they can now be seen seeking out carrion, rotten fruit, dung, and the nutrients found in puddles.
https://vermontalmanac.org/wp-content/uploads/VTALMANAC_LOGO_STACK_TAG-300x150.png
0
0
Virginia Barlow
https://vermontalmanac.org/wp-content/uploads/VTALMANAC_LOGO_STACK_TAG-300x150.png
Virginia Barlow2020-04-18 15:21:092020-05-06 16:40:47Yellow-bellied sapsuckers are beginning to return from points south. They lap up sap from holes in trees that they have drilled in the past few days and will eat any insects the sap has attracted.
https://vermontalmanac.org/wp-content/uploads/VTALMANAC_LOGO_STACK_TAG-300x150.png
0
0
Virginia Barlow
https://vermontalmanac.org/wp-content/uploads/VTALMANAC_LOGO_STACK_TAG-300x150.png
Virginia Barlow2020-04-17 15:20:372020-05-06 16:40:53Bluebirds have begun making decisions about where to build a nest. They check out the ones in our yard every year but usually settle on someplace else.
https://vermontalmanac.org/wp-content/uploads/VTALMANAC_LOGO_STACK_TAG-300x150.png
0
0
Virginia Barlow
https://vermontalmanac.org/wp-content/uploads/VTALMANAC_LOGO_STACK_TAG-300x150.png
Virginia Barlow2020-04-16 15:20:032020-05-06 16:41:00Spring is frustratingly slow this year – which really is no different from spring’s arrival every year. We have to remind ourselves…
https://vermontalmanac.org/wp-content/uploads/VTALMANAC_LOGO_STACK_TAG-300x150.png
0
0
Virginia Barlow
https://vermontalmanac.org/wp-content/uploads/VTALMANAC_LOGO_STACK_TAG-300x150.png
Virginia Barlow2020-04-15 15:19:342020-05-06 16:41:07Coltsfoot is one of the earliest wildflowers. Brought from Europe for use as a cough remedy, it has found a niche here in wet gravel at the edges of roads. It is less welcome in wetlands, where it displaces native species.