
I did notice some Spice Bush, Lindera benzoin, flowering which I can now add to my collection of wildflowers photographed. This is the host plant to the Spicebush Swallowtail Butterfly who's caterpillar mimics a snake. I'll try and visit them later in the year to see if I can find any.

Along the way to the woods and back I came across a pavement ant war, where two colonies of Tetramorium cf. species E.were battling it out. A women thought I was recording this and commented "I'm sure that video will get like five million hits on youtube."



Also by the park there's a patch of Japanese Knotweed. This nonnative plant is so invasive that stems can actually push up through the road.