Summer at the Park
Summer is the best time to experience the wide variety of wildlife that lives in the Preserve. The Friends organization is committed to ensuring the Preserve remains a safe haven for all the wildlife that coexists here in the Park. The birds are as varied as they are plentiful in the Preserve making it a bird watcher's paradise. Those recorded seen throughout this past spring include the Great Egret, Chimney Swift, Great Crested Flycatcher, Eastern Kingbird, Brown Thrasher, Yellow-throated Vireo, Louisiana Water Thrush, Black-Throated Green Warbler, Black-Throated Blue Warbler, Pileated Woodpecker, Eastern Wood-Pewee, Baltimore Oriole, Scarlet Tanager, Yellow-Billed Cuckoo, Cedar Waxwing, Indigo Bunting, Black-Crowned Night Heron, Warbling Vireo, Orchard Vireo. If you are bird watcher and sight an unusual or fascinating species in the Preserve, we would love to hear about it and would like to post it for other bird watchers to keep an eye out. Wildflowers are another wonderful reason to visit the Preserve in the spring. Visitors may have noted the Jack-in-the-Pulpit, Dwarf Ginseng, Wild Sarsaparilla, False Hellebore, Winterberry, Blue Flag and False Solomon's Seal. The wildflowers attract the butterflies and some noted visiting species have been the Eastern Comma, Red Admiral, Mourning Cloak and a Tiger Swallow. The Friends have been proud to be an integral part of bringing new varieties of butterflies into the Preserve and funded the enhancement of the Butterfly Gardens in the year 2000. There are over 100 specifies of butterflies in Westchester County and information on how you can attract butterflies into your own garden is available at the Preserve office. Special programs are ongoing and you should contact the Preserve at 914-631-1470, ext. 14, to obtain details and dates. |
