{"id":5225,"date":"2015-03-20T14:33:02","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T18:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenprovidencepark.org\/?p=5225"},"modified":"2015-03-20T14:33:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T18:33:02","slug":"spring-summer-2014-photojournal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenprovidencepark.org\/2015\/03\/20\/spring-summer-2014-photojournal\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring-Summer 2014 Photojournal"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a long, cold, snowy winter, 2014 brought a later spring than usual in Glen Providence Park <\/strong>– it\u00a0snowed as late as St. Patrick’s Day.\u00a0Early spring ephemeral flowers bloomed in the park about 4 days later than in 2013, which had been 17 days later than the very warm Spring of 2012!<\/span><\/p>\n

Spring bird sightings brought our Park Bird List<\/a> up to 112 species<\/strong> with additions including Wild Turkey(!), Worm-eating Warbler,<\/strong>\u00a0Cooper’s and Broad-winged\u00a0Hawks<\/strong>,<\/strong> and a Mother’s Day Yellow-throated Vireo!\u00a0<\/strong>We observed a <\/span>Pileated Woodpecker<\/strong> over several days as it bored a series of holes in a tree, and watched a pair of <\/span>Tufted Titmouse<\/strong> take deliveries of moss to their nest. Exciting sightings at the pond were <\/span>remarkably-patterned Wood Ducks,<\/strong> and\u00a0<\/span>Solitary Sandpipers!<\/strong><\/p>\n

For our third year, we tracked the timing of the emergence in the park of both emphemeral\u00a0Bloodroot flowers and American Toads.<\/strong> Each year, the toads have emerged at the pond 5-6 days after the Bloodroot buds appeared on the western hill, or 4-5 days after the full Bloodroot flowers. In 2014, the Bloodroot buds appeared on April 7, and the toads 5 days later on April 12 – the same day as the 60th Anniversary Great Media Easter Egg Hunt! <\/a><\/strong>You can read a father’s charming account<\/a><\/strong> of taking his daughters to the Egg Hunt and to see the toads at the pond. For more on “phenology,” the study of timing in nature, see our Spring 2013 photojournal<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Summer, Delaware County Parks & Recreation did substantial work in the park,<\/strong> with emergency streambank repairs<\/a><\/strong> by the pond, and repairs to the historical stage from a fallen 110-year-old White Ash. We watched fly fishing lessons<\/strong> at the pond by Delco Manning Trout Unlimited<\/strong> and Sporting Gentleman,<\/strong> enjoyed our third year of summer concerts<\/a><\/strong> in the park, and we celebrated our 3rd Anniversary!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Click on any photo below for a closer look, or scroll through them all. You can compare our 2014 spring and summer to other years in my photojournals<\/a>, starting in August 2011. And many of these photos have more detailed captions in our Facebook albums<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\t\t