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Animals Animal Tracks Bears Eastern Gray Squirrel Fox   Rabbits and Hares   Skunks The Very Clever Racoon White-tailed Deer   Woodchuck	Trees Eastern Red Cedar Ferns, White Oak Tree Hickory     Norway Spruce Plantings Pyracantha  Serviceberry Sweet Gum  Tree Bark
Plants   Autumn Olive  Common Spicebush  Crown Vetch Invasive Plants Lichens May-Apple, Geranium Nonnative Invasive Plants  Viburnum  Winterberry Plant  Witch Hazel Plant	Flowers Bloodroot  Cardinal Flower and Black-Eyed Susan  Colts Foot and Other Spring Blooms  Deptford Pink Great Chickweed  Jewelweed Milkweeds Queen Anne's Lace Spring Beauty and Hepatica  Trilliums  Wildflowers
Insects   Good Insects Monarch Butterfly The Orb Weaver Spider  Spiders Walking Stick Insects  Woolly Bear Caterpillars	Miscellaneous                      Dead Wood Galls   Ornamental Grasses and Sedges Snakes Timber Rattlesnake and the Eastern Rat Snake  What is a Skink?
Birds A Big Black Bird - Grackles American Robin Beaks and Bills    Birds and Glass Window Collisions  Cedar Waxwing   Christmas Bird Count or CBC The Cowbird  Eastern Screech Owl Goldfinches and Thistles Juncos  Hawk Migration  House Sparrow or English Sparrow Red-Tailed Hawk Ruby-throated Hummingbird  The Turkey Vulture and Other Large Birds The Wren  Tufted Titmouse    Wild Turkeys & Mast	Bloodroot