HC Conservancy - September 2014
/The sculpture of the owl in the natural play area for children is taking on a darker patina as is weathers.
I took lots of milkweed pictures; the pods are maturing and beginning to split…and lots of milkweed bugs.
The meadow has some fall blooms. Purple is a popular color (thistles and ironweeds and poke weed)
But yellow of goldenrods are overwhelming.
There was a cut up tree trunk along the stone fence that had quite an assortment of shelf fungus.
Along that same stone fence were two snake skins - one hanging from a tree that seemed to be growing roots into its own trunk and another along a tree branch.
A tidy nest was visible in the very young tree - probably fresh from this summer but now abandoned.
And last but not least - a huge caterpillar of a cecropia moth! I’m glad one of my fellow hikers spotted it!