Spring has arrived and the Veasey field is greening and bluebirds, tree swallows and bobolinks have returned. Two of the nest boxes in the field already have recently hatched bluebirds. The parents will be busy bringing food to their young as the young quickly grow and mature. Veasey Park has never had a bluebird fledge before June – maybe this year. Let’s wait and cheer these two bluebird families on.
The Highway Department has mowed the field trails so take a walk through the field and enjoy the birds. Lilacs and quince are now in bloom around the field adding color and scent.
If you take a walk though the woodland trails look for flowering wood anemone along the trails. Anemone has white flowers about 1-inch wide with five petals and reaches a height of 8-inches. Wood anemone is one of the early flowering wildflowers that thrives in wooded habitat and flowers early to take advantage of the additional sunlight penetrating the forest canopy that reaches the forest floor before trees have fully leaf-out.
Richard Lombard … May 2011
