Fall flowers are arriving!
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Joe-Pye Weed (Eutrochium)
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Flat-top White Aster (Doellingeria umbellata)
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Devil's Beggarticks (Bidens frondosa)
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Nodding Beggarticks (Bidens cernua)
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There aren't many dragonflies left, but I spotted this lovely one:
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Autumn Meadowhawk (Sympetrum vicinum)
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There are some truly impressive spiders in the outhouse!
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Fishing Spider (Dolomedes)
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Isn't it neat that you can sometimes look at a tree and know exactly which species of bird was there, even though you've never seen it? The horizontal rows of pecking are characteristic of a yellow-bellied sapsucker woodpecker. They eat bark, tree sap, and insects.
