In order to avoid the afternoon heat, we will meet at 9 AM at the Lehigh Crossing Park parking area; 7350 Victor Mendon Rd, Victor, NY 14564 (Route 251 between Rt 96 and Cork Road).
This event is in partnership with Victor Hiking Trails. Barb Starr will lead an informal walk around the pond to explain the Lehigh Crossing Pond Project and check out wildlife and plants that make this area home.
What a beautiful sunny morning for a dozen people to enjoy a stroll around the pond at Lehigh Crossings Park. Thanks to Barb Starr for telling us the history and all about the years of restoration she and others have devoted to this nature oasis.
Enjoy Fred's collage by clicking here!
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monarch Today I learned the names of three different dragonflies! |
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| widow skimmer dragonfly |
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halloween pennant dragonfly |
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| blue dasher dragonfly |
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| portajohn in parking area before walk to pond |
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| orange honey suckle |
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| red honeysuckle |
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| green frogs |
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| pink flags show mowers where not to mow |
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| wild mint |
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| white sweet clover |
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| this area used to be blocked by phragmites |
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| birdsfoot trefoil |
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| blue vervain |
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| boneset |
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| invasive buckthorn |
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| burnweed |
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| clouded sulpher |
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| common centaury |
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| common milkweed |
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| crownvetch |
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| deptford pink |
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| dogbane beetle |
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| evening nightshade |
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| hawkweed |
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| horsenettle |
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| joe pye weed |
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| joe pye weed |
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| back side of leaf with gall on front |
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hedgehog gall wasp gall on white oak leaf |
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| milkweed beetle |
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| elegant grass veneer moth |
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| invasive mugwort |
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| butterflyweed |
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| north of the pond |
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| evidence of turtle nest to north of pond |
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| poison ivy |
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| small flowered willowherb |
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| snake in pond |
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| snapping turtle in pond |
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| saint john's wort |
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| tall meadow rue |
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| white sweet clover |
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white pine |
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| looking at willow galls |
