Observations by rickkeyser

Yellow wildflower of small stature.

Crawling on a wooden post.

Song

Two males counter-singing over a light rain, a Baltimore Oriole and a Common Yellowthroat.

Chorus

Chorus from vernal pool

Day roosting.

Chorus - swimming in backwaters of the French Creek.

Chorus near dusk at Black Rock Sanctuary.
( Spring Peepers singing too. )

Shrub of about four feet height, similar in form to Amur Honeysuckle (L. maackii), but the pith of the stem is not hollow.

An adult male singing from a spreading oak tree.

Male and female

Not on a milkweed species when discovered: milkweed species growing nearby.

Large shelf mushrooms of ~15 cm diameter growing from a vertical tree trunk. Surprising to everyone, they attach themselves to the tree with a rotund stem.

Blossoms

Caterpillar

An adult male foraging in trees at mid- and high-levels

Stalk leaf with prop

Entire plant

Blossoms with prop

A juvenile showing pale streaking on its chestnut-colored neck was hunting in a small pond.

Not flowering