CLARK GULLY BOTANICAL WALK/HIKE
with Emily Debolt and Bruce Gilman on Saturday, April 13, 2024.
Meet us at 10am in the small DEC parking lot at the intersection of West Avenue and Sunnyside Road (between Middlesex and Naples - this is the lower parking lot!) We will walk along the north side of the stream at first, then cross over to the south side and proceed to the waterfall. There is a trail at the beginning, then it is hopping rocks and/or walking in the stream. At the conclusion of the walk we hope to also do a short walk to the Finger Lakes Trust overlook kiosk of the southern Middlesex Valley and observe and appreciate their conservation activities.
If you prefer to carpool from Canandaigua, please send an email to canandaiguabotanical@gmail.com and we will plan to meet at Sly Street at 9 AM.
If you are traveling south from Canandaigua on 364, stay straight onto West Ave at Middlesex. Sunnyside Road will be at the end of West Ave. Parking area will be a left turn off West Ave near the intersection.
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Eight hardy members met on a wet and 37' chilly morning to investigate Clark Gully.
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| Taking a closer look at the Black Oak buds |
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| Black oak tree with oriental bittersweet growing on it |
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| Sumac |
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| staghorn sumac |
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| smooth sumac |
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| herb robert |
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| coltsfoot in the stream bed |
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| bittercress under a large stone |
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| aster |
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| mullein and ? |
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| Emily points out purple flower raspberry |
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| Early meadow rue - male |
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| early meadow rue |
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| oat grass |
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| red elderberry |
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| witch hazel |
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| dog lichen |
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| broad leaved toothwort |
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| Pennsylvania sedge |
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| wild geranium |
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| Marginal wood fern |
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| "living on the edge" |
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| crowded parchment |
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| results of Emerald Ash Borer |
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| cottonwood catkins |
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| pussy toes |
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| round leaved hepatica |
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| small hemlock on edge of the ledge |
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| Our Plantman bringing sample up for closer look |
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| broadleaf sedge |
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| autumn olive (introduced) |
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| There's WALKING FERN up there |
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| White blossoms of Serviceberry / Shadbush |
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| Fred climbs for photo ops |
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| Freed and Chelsea |
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| White Trillium (bit too chilly to open) |
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| Very young jewelweed / touch-me-not / Impatiens capensis |
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| serviceberry / shadbush |
After our adventure in Clark Gully we took a walk across Sunnyside (in the wind and rain) to check out West River Preserve....
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| It's always good to end a walk with more (not less) people than you began with |
