Spring colors always seem to come in waves. Late May brings blue spikes – baptisia, amsonia, columbine and sage,
tradescantia and my new little clematis integrifolia, ‘Blue Boy.”
Birds
blue jay
bluebirds
brown thrasher
cardinal
Carolina wren
catbird
chickadee
chipping sparrow
downy woodpecker
goldfinch
house finch
mockingbird
mourning dove
nuthatch
pileated woodpecker
robin
ruby-throated hummingbird
rufous-sided towhee
titmouse
white-throated sparrow
yellow-rumped warbler
Butterflies and moths
Atteva aurea, ailanthus webworm moth
Common buckeye
Eastern tiger swallowtail
Hummingbird moth
Pearl crescent
silver-spotted skipper
Insects
Daddy long-legs
eastern pondhawk dragonfly
great black wasp
inch worm
periodic cicadas
praying mantis
four-toothed mason wasp
Animals
moles
possum
rabbit
voles
Other
garter snake
rat snake
gray tree frog