October 19th. Various afternoon stops in East Hampton and Westchester.

 

 

 

Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selfheal (Prunella vulgaris).

 

October 20th. Light rain beginning.

 

 

 

October 21st. A brief stop at Cranberry Bog to check on the Mallards (Anas platyrhynchos).

 

Lots of Mallards.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

October 22nd. Yay, it's not raining! But rain yesterday brought down a lot of the Fall foliage.

 

 

 

Last Spring's Baltimore Oriole nest still hanging, barely.

 

Backlit Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe) atop a Wood Duck house.

 

 

 

October 23rd. An afternoon walk east from Route 207. Mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) grooming.

 

One of the males has a leg band.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lots of Meadowhawk Dragonflies (Sympetrum sp.).

 

 

 

 

 

Green Frog (Rana clamitans) in a trailside ditch.

 

Pigskin Poison Puffball (Scleroderma citrinum).

 

The powerlines were my turn around point.

 

October 24th. A foggy 37 degrees at 7:45.

 

Sun trying to break through.

 

In Spring, foliage appears from the ground up; the trees being the last to show leaves. In Fall the process is reversed with the trees losing foliage first.