April 16, 2004 - Chesapeake Campus, Tidewater Community College -  60F - Sunny

Birds (* = our first sighting for this season)

American Robin - in fields along Jericho Ditch
Bald Eagle (Basic III - IV subadult)
Blue Jay
Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher
Brown-Headed Cowbird
Brown Thrasher
Canada Geese
Carolina Chickadee
Carolina Wren
Common Yellowthroat
Double-Crested Cormorant
Downy Woodpecker
Common Grackel
Eastern (Rufus-Sided) Towhee
European Starling
Fish Crow
Golden-Crowned Kinglet
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Herring Gull
Killdeer
Laughing Gull
Mourning Dove
Northern Cardinal
Northern Flicker (Yellow-Shafted)
Pileated Woodpecker
Pine Warbler
Red-Bellied Woodpecker
Red-Tailed Hawk
Red-Winged Blackbird
Ring-Billed Gull
Ruby-Crowned Kinglet
Tufted Titmouse
Turkey Vulture
Yellow-Rumped (Myrtle) Warbler

Plants

Acer rubrum - Red Maple - samara's full, some leaves 7 cm
Arelia spinosaHercules Club, Devil's Walking Stick - new growth opening - 6-10cm
Cardamine hirsuta - Hairy Bittercrress - blooming
Clethra alnifolia - Sweet Pepper - old seed pods persistant, leaf buds 1cm, some opening to 3 cm
Conopholis americana-Squaw-Root/Cancer-Root - 7 cm tall 
Gelsimium sempervirens - Yellow Jasmine - blooming
Glechoma hederacea - Ground Ivy - blooming
Ilex opacca - Virginia Holly
Liquidambar styraciflua - Sweet Gum, Gum Ball Tree - buds 3 cm - pollinating
Osmunda cinamomea - Cinnamon Fern - Fiddle heads 3 dm, just beginning to open
Persea borbonia - Red Bay w/ galls
Pinus taeda - Loblolly Pine - pollinating
Prunus serotina- Black Cherry - flws gone, fruit 1 mm
Pteridium aquilinum- Brachen Fern - 3-4 dm tall 
Smilax laurifolia - Greenbrier
Smilax rotundifolia - Greenbrier - some w/ new leaves 2-3 cm, new berries approx 2 mm diam
Stellaria media - Common Chickweed - blooming
Taraxacum officinale - Dandilion - blooming
Trifolium repens-White Clover - blooming

Others
- lots of deer tracks
- otter scat and otter slides