Tuesday, July 14th at 10 AM
Letchworth State Park with Matt Nusstein
The meeting location would be the Octagon parking area (42.588397, -78.015896) of Lower Falls at Letchworth State Park. There is a $10/vehicle state park fee. If you have a person in the car 62 or older you may enter without a fee on weekdays. Wood Library also has State Park passes to borrow for entry any day of the week.
Click here to see Fred's Letchworth collage.
It was a sunny and hot morning but the haze of the Canadian wildfires did not appear until the following day. Eleven "nature nerds" did well to investigate the plants of the lower falls footbridge trail.
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| white snakeroot |
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| looks like a lot of jewelweed will be blooming soon |
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| avens |
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| quaking aspen |
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| white sweet clover |
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| knapweed |
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| slippery elm, with pine and tulip tree |
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| American Spikenard |
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| white baneberry in with ginsing |
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| American basswood |
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| wild bergamont |
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| fairy bells |
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| black raspberries |
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| bottlebrush grass |
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| Canadian Juniper growing off the edge of the east cliff |
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| fall webworm moth caterpillar |
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| yellow mt saxifrage |
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| columbine |
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| early goldenrod |
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| fireweed on east cliffside |
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| tags on hemlock trees identifying chemical or biological treatment |
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| Herb Robert / wild geranium |
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| large bunch of honeysuckle |
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| joe pye weed |
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| looking north from the footbridge |
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| looking south from footbridge |
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| maidenhair fern |
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| red baneberry |
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| sarsaparilla |
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| sensitive fern |
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| slippery elm tree with tulip tree in background |
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| checking out the spikenard |
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| saint john's wort |
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| sumac |
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| pea |
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| hemlock |
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| white baneberry |
Many of you may be aware of the photo collages Fred Shares on facebook. I had a thought to try to share them here on our weblog. Fred has agreed to share other collages - either on event specific posts or as a separate link from the left column. I hope to add more in the near future.