2018 Belmont BioBlitz – part 1
/
I’ve been volunteering for the Howard County Conservancy’s Belmont BioBlitz field trips since they started in the fall of 2014. We had a 3-day BioBlitz this week with students coming from 2 schools. On the first morning the day started out foggy and stayed cloudy. While we were waiting for the buses to arrive with the students, I took some pictures.
The horse chestnut tree was blooming although the blooms were past their prime and some had fallen to the ground already. I took a picture of one with the macro lens on the cell phone.
All the vegetation was covered in water droplets. Even grass seeds look like little works of art with the droplets.
The buses came up the tree lined drive. There are more gaps in the tree line now that the ashes have been cut down.
We headed back to our assigned ‘zone’ in the woods – finding white pines along the way to document and then a box turtle and violets gone to seed on the forest floor.
Stay tuned for more BioBlitz finds in tomorrow’s post.
