20 July 2024
Yesterday was my first alternative to go to Schenley Park in additional than every week.
- Deep purple flowers on New York ironweed (Veronia noveboracensis)
- Feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium) in bloom, a non-native plant from Eurasia.
- Japanese bottlebrush grass (Elymus hystrix) with tiny spider threads.
- Pavement glowing within the solar? No, pond scum on Panther Hole Lake.
- Useless grownup noticed lanternfly nose-down with legs flexed open. Shadyside, 18 July.
- Oh deer … Particulars close to their pictures.
I took a short stroll in my neighborhood on Thursday 18 July and located a lifeless grownup noticed lanternfly, my first this 12 months however I used to be out of city. It’s nose-down to the pavement as a result of its legs are flexed open.
Oh deer. Yesterday I noticed 4 deer in Schenley Park; three on this household. The 2 noticed fawns seem like a month youthful than this 12 months’s cohort that have been born in Could. If that’s the case, it was as a result of their mom bred later than the remainder of the herd, maybe as a result of she was a fawn herself final 12 months.
Within the picture above, discover how little meals there’s on the bottom. With out a lot to eat, deer in Schenley Park browse on meals they don’t like, such because the Japanese knotweed under.
Neighborhood gardens have much more meals, so guess the place the deer go. Final month I noticed two in a backyard with vegetation as much as their shoulders. Not for lengthy, although. As I watched one among them opened its mouth to take a big chunk.
