I managed to get in an abbreviated walk this morning, dodging rain drops and leaf drips and accompanied by thunder rumbling to the south and heavy humidity -- some would call it fog -- over the land and sea. The highlight was the first box turtle of the year, a very dark individual with a strange pattern of orange 'footprint'-like markings across its carapace. Probably a recognizable and easily identifiable individual; I'll look for him again and maybe try to get a photo.
Flower report. Lily-of-the-valley is at (or even past) its peak. Blue Toadflax, a small, surprisingly exotic-looking blue flower (look closely) of sandy areas, is out. There are also numbers of very tiny white and/or yellow flowers that need to be investigated and identified -- probably with a magnifying glass.
Yellow Warbler singing away but not a peep from either of the Yellowthroats. Maybe they need to dry off.
Eric Salzman
P.S.: For some reason, when I fussed a little with Mike Bottini's remarkable self-photographed River Otter, it turned from jpeg to tiff which apparently some people have trouble with. So, thanks to Mike Cooper, I'm resending it as jpeg.
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