I went out there today and combined a couple of hikes to get 6 miles on the day. It was nice out there and I was greeted to a few glimpses of a Hummingbird, Pine Warbler and a first year male Summer tanager. The Walnuts and Pecans are falling and there were some cool breezes along the way. This is the same Winged Sumac Bill helped me identify earlier in the year. I barely worked up a sweat at a brisk pace. I realize I'm gonna have to study St. Peter's-wort and St. Andrew's-cross a little more carefully since they look eerily similar. According to the Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (p 710), St. Peter's-wort (Hypericum stans) has clasping leaves. That should give me enough to ID them. And what I thought was Golden Asters turned out to be Silver-leaved Grass (Heterotheca graminifolia). Plenty of Wild Senna out there with a few Sicklepods here and there. Lots of Clouded Sulphur Butterflies along with Buckeyes, a Pearl Crescent and a Gulf Fritillary. Saw a Mississippi Kite and one of the Red-shouldered Hawks that seem to live there. My time was 1:45:06 at 17:31 per mile.
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