Here
are some of the wildlife
that we have observed at the Purple loosestrife biocontrol
treatment sites (or, look at insects
or plants):
A
young Snapping turtle rests in the mid-day sun on a bed of sedges and
grasses.
A
Crayfish pauses in the Burma Rd. footpath at Fowl Meadow.
The
remains of a crustacean meal dot the walking path at Fowl
Meadow.
A
Northern leopard frog pauses in the midst of crossing the
walking path
at Fowl
Meadow.
A
short-tailed hummingbird
perches in
a shrub by the edge of the
emergent marsh at Fowl Meadow.
A
Spring peeper pauses in the midst of crossing a walking path
through
the
wetland.
A
snail has attached itself to the leaf of a Trembling aspen
tree along the Burma Rd.
footpath
at Fowl Meadow.
A
Willow tree provides a perch for a Goldfinch.
White-tailed
deer travel through the wet-meadow at Fowl Meadow
and
Brookwood Farm, too!
An
Eastern
kingbird is temporarily still, prior to its next airborne insect
meal.
Here
is evidence of wildlife at
other wetlands around the Neponset Watershed; we
may yet spot these species and more at our Purple
loosestrife biocontrol sites!
A
maintenance truck tire rut serves a double role as a
wildlife route
through
a wet meadow. See more tracks spotted in these tire
ruts,
below:
What
songbird hopped here, and why?
Whose
fuzzy feet, with claw prints, are these?
Can
you guess at the species of this small mammal?
The
paw prints of a slightly larger mammal...
A
remnant molar of prey that lay undigested in the scat
of...coyote? Whose molar was this?
Someone
ate well here, on a spot of drier ground in the midst of a
wet meadow. Pigeon, would you say? Perhaps the hunter was a
coyote or fox -
Here
is a deer scrape between the Neponset River and a wet
meadow,
just
off of busy Rte. 1 and a stretch of strip malls!
Read
an introduction to the wetland restoration project.
This
project was made possible through the support of the
Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program of the Natural Resources
Conservation Service, the Corporate Wetlands Restoration
Partnership, the MA DCR, OPPP, the NLT Foundation, the
William P. Wharton Trust, and The Norcross Wildlife
Foundation, Inc.
August
2009
