May 31

May 31, 2008 by OrientSee.

Today the wind was fierce and unrelenting. Most of the birds were invisible, even the Redwings. The Ospreys were active around the platform and a lone Snowy Egret was being blown from one puddle to another. A few Terns were fishing in the creek while the Mallards all hunkered down for a nap. So the plants were the attraction today. This proto-cone was on a tree next to the Suffolk Downs station.

A yellow Iris was nearly hidden by grass right by the margin of the marsh on Palermo St.

By Rosie’s Pond in a shady glade, these delightful flowers wave in the breeze. I’m not an expert birder but I feel even more inadequate to identify all the plants that I find in a walk. I think that a spieces count of  plants would be in the thousands just along my daily path. This diversity happens because Belle Isle is really a collision of habitats and that means edges. Edges are where the action is as each habitat struggles for dominion over another.  Out on the flats of the marsh or in the reed beds, there is less diversity.  (That doesn’t mean the phragmites stands are dull. There is just less action.)  Watching the borders is very interesting.

Ciao!

-Jorge

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