Late spring means lots of wildlife activity- breeding, emergence, &c. Three recent encounters:
A newly emerged Cyrano Darner, Nasiaeschna pentacantha (thanks for the ID @debcha and M.!).
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I shall fly her on salmonflies and call her Carby.
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A bat (Little Brown, I think) found wandering the halls at work – kept overnight to make sure he was OK and then released.
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And a field mouse youngling on his or her way outside.
Hmm… Worth thinking about. Perhaps in the fall when the weather and fall-off in tourist traffic would make the walk even more pleasant.
After a few days waiting for the peat moss to hydrate, I figured things had settled as much as they were going to. First, I trimmed the excess pond liner and then in went the plants! Super-easy transplanting – scoop an appropriate hole with your hands, and tip in the greenery.
Click through to see notes on what went where.
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Sarracenia purpurea
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Sarracenia rubra
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Cypripedium reginae (1 year old plants, just getting started after dormancy)
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Sarracenia flava (also year-old plants)
They’re either ornata or rubricorpora – I lost the tag on the pot.
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And finally a tribute to Watkins Glen in the ’70s. I was there before the rowdiness got going, but read about it in car magazines. As I recall, burning the bus was the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back.
“The Bog wants the bus! The Bog wants the bus!”