Bird feeder activity is down, both NJ and VT, since the hurricane and other storms. Have they moved away? Have their food resourses been damaged by the storms? Were the new fledglings killed? Or the adults? Anyone have any thoughts?
My geology site describing the geology of several popular hikes in the Upper Valley of the Connecticut River/Dartmouth area has finally debuted. Check it out. The link is to the right.
I have been trying to ID this shrub, growing in Zone 6 [NJ] under shade trees. It's 7-8 feet tall with 4-5 grayish trunks with stipules. The leaves, flowers and berries are shown, the leaves are a bit fuzzy underneath. Anyone? I used the Virginia Tech dendrology site and think that it's 'Ilex verticillata - winterberry holly'.
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I think that that is correct. There must be many of these bushes in the area because to get such lovely berries, you need both sexes of the plant.
I think you're right. My instinctive thought was winterberry.
Many of your summer birds are heading out of doge...particularly in VT. RB grosbeaks, goldfinches etc...leaving. But u should start to be getting the winter birds any day...juncoes, white throats, more chickadees, then later in winter the northern finches. It's kinda the lull between summer birds and winter birds.
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