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Nature Lives!
A Friends of Fresh Pond Reservation Program
March 27, 2010
Led by Larry Millman, Tom Murray, and Elizabeth Wylde

SPECIES OBSERVED
 
Birds
Canada Goose
Mallard
Double-crested Cormorant
Hooded Merganser
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Mourning Dove
Downy Woodpecker
Blue Jay
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmoouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
American Robin
1 Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Song Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Hose Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

Fungi
Apiosporina morbosa (Black Knot)
Crucibulum laeva
(Bird's Nest Fungus)
Daedaleopsis confragosa
(Thin Maze Polypore)
Exidia recisa
(Black Witches Butter)
Fuligo septica
(Scrambled Egg Slime)
Ganoderma applanatum
(Artist's Conk)
Ganoderma lucidum
(Ling Chih)
Hypoxylon fragiforme
(Beech Hypoxylon)
Irpex lacteus
(Milk White Toothed Polypore)
Nectria cinnabarina
Piptoporus betulina
(Birch Polypore)
Polyporus brumalis
(Winter Polypore)
Trametes gibbosa
Ustulina deusta
(Carbon Cushion)


Mammals

Gray Squirrel

Lichens
Foliose type

 

  Invertebrates
Anyphaenidae family (Ghost spider)
Cesonia bilineata
(Ground spider)
Claenius sp.
(Vivid metallic ground beetle)
Collembola family
(Springtail)
Diplopoda class
(Millipede)
Drusilla canaliculata
(a rove beetle)
Ellychnia corrusca
(Diurnal firefly)
Eucinetus morio
(Plate-thigh beetle)
Geophilomorpha family
(Soil centipede)
Habrocerus capillaricornis
Heterothops fusculus (dark form)
(a rove beetle)
Limax maximus
(Leopard slug)
Lithobiomorpha order
(Stone centipede)
Melanotus sp.
(Click beetle)
Myrmica rubra
(European fire ant)
Neriene clathrata
(Herb hammock spider)
Neohypnus obscurus
(a rove beetle)
Opiliones order
(Daddy long legs)
Parcoblatta sp.
(Wood roach)
Platydracus zonatus
(a rove beetle)
Polydesmus angustus
(Flat-backed millipede)
Prenolepis imparis
(False honey ant)
Rugilus rufipes
(a rove beetle)
Sepedophilus testaceus
(a rove beetle)
Telephanus atricapillus
(Silvanid beetle)
Tortricid Moth
Trochosa sp.
(Wolf spider)
Xysticus sp.
(Crab spider)


Plants (Leafing Out)

Forsythia
Avens
Wild Garlic
Yellow Iris
Honeysuckle bushes
Garlic Mustard
Mullein