Much has changed along the trail during the month of June. Multiflora rose had just started to flower in early June but now is finished; all the other flower photos below are from today, June 27. Our local breeding birds keep singing, and the birds shown below are all regulars (June photos). A beaver is active in pond 10 every day, and a green heron is often there, too. The sighting of the month, however, was a nesting ruby-throated hummingbird!!! (thanks to Carol Adams for finding it) – a wonderful sighting. In several places, cabbage white butterflies are “puddling” on moist soil where they can take up sodium. The current KT challenge for each of you is to sit on each of the four new benches now in place along the trail; doing so will let you observe nature in four different habitats…
