Friday, October 9, 2026 at 10 AM
Join us on Friday, October 9th at 10 AM
as we check out the trails of the
Townsend-Grady Wildlife Preserve, Townsend Rd., Branchport, NY 14418
Natalie Cunningham, Education Program Coordinator, will show us around the Sugar Creek Trail at the north end of the west branch of Keuka Lake.
Parking is available off Townsend Road near 54A in the grass lot on the right side, next to the kiosk.
It was a gorgeously sunny cool morning as we gathered to enjoy the Townsend-Grady Wildlife Preserve.
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| Black walnuts |
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| White pine with long sticky cones |
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| Beggarticks |
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| ground nut |
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| sensitive fern |
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| goldenrods |
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| possible cardinal flower? |
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| cat tails |
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| milk weed pods |
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| dodder on dogwood |
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| crown vetch |
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| Button bush |
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| cocklebur |
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| yellow waterlily seed pod |
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| lots of aster |
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| New England Aster |
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| water hemlock with molded purple stem |
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| two types of jump seed growing side by side |
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| Joe Pye Weed |
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| high bush cranberry |
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| blue berries of Virginia Creeper (leaves below) |
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| poke weed |
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| aspen trees |
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| black oak across the road got our attention |
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| Confirmation made it was black oak |
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| knapweed |
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| wild basil |
