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Spring moves on. When this column appears, red maple flowers and bloodroot flowers will have disappeared, and probably most of our daffodils. Shad fishing will be in full swing, and the white flowers of the shadbush will be blossoming.
For readers who can spare two hours on Saturday morning, April 30, the Butterfly Barn is sponsoring a wildflower walk along a tributary of Calkins Creek, where both floodplain and woodland wildflowers will be flourishing. We will meet at 10:00 a.m. at the Butterfly Barn in Milanville, PA.
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| Shades of pink and purple colors on the hills in mid-April are caused by the flowers of red maple trees, among the most beautiful in nature. The photo shows male flowers in bud ( top) and a batch of them in flower (bottom).
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| White bloodroot flowers are among spring’s most ephemeral, often disappearing in a single day. This one appeared on April 19.
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| The mourning cloak, one of our earliest visitors, is a medium-sized butterfly that hibernates in autumn and survives the winter as an adult.
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| The first shad fisherman wets a line below Narrowsburg’s Big Eddy on the evening of April 12.
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