Howard County Bird Club
A Chapter of the Maryland Ornithological Society
Wildflower Walk
| Trip leader: Jo & Bob Solem | Date of trip: April 15, 2022 |
| Location: Hammond Village | Number attending: 19 |
| Details: Search for Golden Club (Orontium aquaticum) and enjoy a spring day. | |
Plants:
Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata)
Wild Garlic (Allium canadense)
Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)
Spring Beauty (Claytonia virginica)
Trout Lily (Erythronium americanum)
Lesser Celandine (Ficaria verna)
Creeping Charlie (Glechoma hederacea)
Purple Dead Nettle (Lamium purpureum)
Golden Club (Orontium aquaticum)
Kidney-leaved Buttercup (Ranunculus abortivus)
Multiflora Rose (Rosa multiflora)
Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus)
Ivy-leaved Speedwell (Veronica hederifolia)
Common Blue Violet (Viola sororia)
Eastern Hay-scented Fern (Dennstaedtia punctilobula)
Christmas Fern (Polystichum acrostichoides)
Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida)
Northern Spicebush (Lindera benzoin)
Birds:
Black Vulture 4
Turkey Vulture 2
Red-shouldered Hawk 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 3
Downy Woodpecker 1
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Blue Jay 1
American Crow 4
Carolina Chickadee 1
Tufted Titmouse 4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 8
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2
Carolina Wren 1
Eastern Bluebird 3
American Goldfinch 3
Chipping Sparrow 2
White-throated Sparrow 4
Eastern Towhee 1
Northern Cardinal 5