September 27th. Back on the trail after a week in New Hampshire attending my son's wedding on the beach at Mountain Lakes in Woodsville.
Many more pictures here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/stanmalcolm/albums/72177720311573548

 

Lots more color on the Red Maples (Acer rubrum).

 

 

 

New York American-aster (Symphyotrichum novi-belgi).

 

Next, an afternoon walk east of Cook Hill Road. Jimsonweed (Datura stramonium var. tatula).

 

 

 

 

 

Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) in the marsh exit stream.

 

A Green Frog (Rana clamitans) in a damp trailside ditch.

 

White form female of either a Clouded Sulphur (Colias philodice) or an Orange Sulphur (Colias euretheme).

 

The "alba" gene can be present in either sex but is only expressed in females.

 

A Cabbage White (Pieris rapae) which when I was a child was called a European Cabbage Butterfly. It was first introduced circa 1860 in Canada.

 

Differential Grasshopper (Melanoplus differentialis).

 

September 28th. A bit more red in the Red Maples (Acer rubrum). Winterberry (Ilex verticillata) at lower right.

 

 

 

September 30th. Red Maple (Acer rubrum) and Common Cattails (Typha latifolia) at Cranberry Bog.

 

A mostly normal looking male Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) though with a few light feathers on the head and neck.

 

Hmm, I'm guessing this is a young male beginning to transition to adult male plumage.

 

Normal female plumage on the near duck, but just a patch of male green on the far duck.

 

A male with a more speckely head.

 

 

 

Typical female.

 

Same bird; different angle.

 

Joineed by a young male (if my theory is correct) showing mostly immature feathers. Just a hint of green on the top of its head.

 

The male is showing some adult breast feathers.

 

 

 

 

 

October 1st. Foggy at the marsh after two days of rain.

 

 

 

Sun barely visible.

 

 

 

Muddy here, but washouts in the usual places.

 

Eastern Chipmunk (Tamias striatus) making it's "chucking" call.

 

 

 

 

 

October 2nd. Winterberry (Ilex verticillata).

 

 

 

Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) in haze far across the marsh.

 

The same photo, edited more aggressively.

 

An afternoon walk east from Depot Hill Road in Cobalt. A female Fall Field Cricket (Gryllus pennsylvanicus).

 

Hickory Tussock Moth caterpillar (Lophocampa caryae).

 

 

 

 

 

The last few blooms of Butter-and-eggs (Linaria vulgaris).

 

Eversource has rerouted the power lines that run through the area under Route 66.

 

Presumably at some point the poles and wires will be removed.

 

October 3rd.

 

 

 

Poison Sumac (Toxicodendron vernix).

 

Wild Grapes (Vitus sp.).

 

Didn't expect to see Tree Swallows (Tachycineta bicolor) again this year, but a bunch (about 10 in this photo) were circling the marsh.