April 3, 2004 - Great Dismal Swamp - Jericho Ditch, Railroad Ditch, Lake Drummond 46F - Sunny

Birds(* = our first sighting for this season)

American Crow - in fields along Jericho Ditch
American Kestrel - on power lines along White Marsh Rd.
American Robin - in fields along Jericho Ditch
Belted Kingfisher
Black and White Warbler
Black-Throated Green Warber
Blue Jay
Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher
Brown-Headed Cowbird
Carolina Chickadee
Carolina Wren
Common Yellowthroat
Double-Crested Cormorant
Downy Woodpecker
Common Grackel
Eastern Phoebe
Eastern Towhee
Golden-Crowned Kinglet
Great Blue Heron
Louisiana Waterthrush
Merlin
Mourning Dove
Northern Cardinal
Northern Flicker (Yellow-Shafted)
Pileated Woodpecker
Pine Warbler
*Prothonatary Warbler - heard, not seen - two different areas
Red-Bellied Woodpecker
Red-Shouldered Hawk
Ruby-Crowned Kinglet....I think
Tufted Titmouse
Turkey Vulture
White-Breasted Nuthatch
White-Eyed Vireo
White-Throated Sparrow
Wood Duck
Yellow-Rumped Warbler

Plants

Acer rubrum - Red Maple - samara's full, some leaves 5 cm
Arelia spinosaHercules Club, Devil's Walking Stick - 3-5cm new growth - just starting to open
Cardamine hirsuta - Hairy Bittercrress - blooming
Clethra alnifolia - Sweet Pepper - old seed pods persistant, leaf buds 1cm, some opening to 3 cm
Gelsimium sempervirens - Yellow Jasmine - blooming
Glechoma hederacea - Ground Ivy - blooming
Ilex opacca - Virginia Holly
Liquidambar styraciflua - Sweet Gum, Gum Ball Tree - buds 3 cm
Liriodendron tulipifera - lvs 3-4 cm
Lonicer japonica - Japanese Honeysuckel - lvs full/evergreen, no new flowers
Lyonia lingustrina - Male Berry - lvs full/evergreen, old seed pods persistant, no new flowers
Osmunda cinamomea - Cinnamon Fern - Fiddle heads 3 dm, just beginning to open
Persea borbonia - Red Bay w/ galls
Potentilla simplex - Common cinquefoil - blooming
Smilax laurifolia - Greenbrier
Smilax rotundifolia - Greenbrier - some w/ new leaves 2-3 cm, new berries approx 2 mm diam
Sorbus arbutifolia - full bloom
Stellaria media - Common Chickweed - blooming
Taraxacum officinale - Dandilion - blooming
Trillium nivale - Dwarf Trillium - blooming - some along Jericho Ditch
Vaccinium corymbosum - Highbush Blueberry - full bloom, leaves open approx 1-2 cm
Vicia americana - Purple Vetch - some w/ flowers
Viola cucullata - Marsh Blue Violet - blooming

Others
- lots of deer tracks
- bear and otter scat and otter slides
- Spring Peepers, Leopard Frogs