Tag: Fauna
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Birds of 1972
CHECK LIST – BIRDS OF MITCHELL-SCARLETT WOODS Hermit Thrush Mallard Swainson’s Thrush Black Duck (N) Veery Blue Winged Teal Golden—Crowned Kinglet Wood Duck Cedar Waxwing Green Heron Starling (N) Turkey Vulture Red-Eyed Vireo Sparrow Hawk Warbling Vireo Bobwhite Black-and-white Warbler Ring-necked Pheasant (N) Blue—Winged Warbler Sora Rail Tennessee Warbler Killdeer (N) Nashville Warbler American Woodcock…
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Birds and Blooms Nature Walk – May 16
Birds and Blooms Nature Walk – Saturday May 16, 2026 @ 10:30 am. The migrating birds have been returning to their nesting grounds or moving north for some time already, but May is the peak of the warbler migration. We’ll pay attention to the many native plants that are blooming and the insects that pollinate them.…
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Spring is here; ducks have returned…
From Phil H.:A new species of ducks in Scarlett Mitchell Woods: A family of rubber ducks (Anatini Cummis) was spotted floating on the pond on April 1st. This particular species of ducks occasionally has numbers on their bottoms. Interestingly, this female specimen appears to wear lipstick. Historically rubber ducks were seen racing down the Huron…
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Snake
I was walking the loop walk in the summer of 2022 and miraculously saw this snake in the branches. As one can see the snake was well camouflaged. It is either a DeKay’s Brownsnake or a Brownsnake. I had tried to find these pictures a long time ago when Judy posted her story about the…
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Full Moon Serenade (Beaver Moon) – November 5, 2025 @ 7:00 PM
WHO: Everybody is welcome WHAT: Singing at the benches by the pond. WHERE: Meet at the main entrance to Scarlett Mitchell Woods (the kiosk west of Scarlett Middle School and south of the bus turnaround loop). WHEN: 7:00 PM Wednesday November 5, 2025 WHY: Get a different view of the woods in the dark. See…
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Weeds and Seeds Nature Walk – Saturday, October 11 @ 10:00 AM
WHO: Everybody is welcome WHAT: Walk along the edge of the woods, check out the Scarlett rain garden and walk down to the pond if mosquitoes allow to look for plants that bear the word WEED in their names and others that are often thought of as weeds, especially if they grow in your garden:…
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Fireflies
One of the amazing things of summer is seeing fireflies. Fireflies light up the night with their bioluminescence. Fireflies (lampyridae) are also called lightning bugs or glowworms. They are a family of elateroid beetles with more than 2,400 species. The firefly uses a chemical process to produce bioluminescence in a specialized organ called a lantern.…
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Chipmunks
Chipmunks are the smallest members of the squirrel family. They are not three cute singing animated brothers named Alvin, Simon, and Theodore. Real chipmunks live in burrows with extensive tunnel systems and multiple concealed entrances. They are found throughout the United States. Chipmunks have an omnivorous diet consisting of seeds, nuts, fruits, buds, other plant…
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Deer Ticks and Chiggers
Chiggers (Trombiculidae) are of the mite family and are called harvest mites in Britain but also known as berry bugs, bush-mites, red bugs or scrub-itch mites. Several species of chiggers in their lava stage bite their animal or human hosts and by embedding their mouthparts into the skin cause “intense irritation”, usually with severe itching…
