Kirk Nelson

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Amphibians

 

 

Fungi and Lichens (continued)

 

Holarctic Treefrogs (Dryophytes spp.)

1

 

Leafy Brain

1

Northern Leopard Frog

2

 

Northern Tooth

2
Wood Frog 2

 

Orange Peel Fungus

2

 

 

 

Pear-shaped Puffball

2

Birds

 

 

Purple-bloom Russula

1

American White Pelican

2

 

Purple-gilled Laccaria

2

Bald Eagle

1

 

Ravenel’s Stinkhorn

1

Baltimore Oriole

2

 

Shaggy Mane

1
Barn Swallow 1

 

Turkey Tail

2

Barred Owl

3

 

White Jelly Fungus

2
Blue-winged Teal 1

 

   

Brown-headed Cowbird

1

 

Insects and Arachnids

 
Canada Goose 1

 

bald-faced hornet

4

Eastern Kingbird

2

 

blue-fronted dancer 2

Eastern Towhee

2

 

blue-margined ground beetle

1

Great Blue Heron

3

 

bronzed tiger beetle

2

Great Egret

1

 

common green darner

1

Green Heron

4

 

common whitetail

2

Hooded Merganser

(1)

 

curve-tailed bush katydid

1

Olive-sided Flycatcher

1

 

eastern pondhawk

1
Pileated Woodpecker 1

 

ebony jewelwing 2

Red-bellied Woodpecker

2

 

impressive meloine beetle 1

Ring-necked Pheasant

2

 

margined burying beetle 2

Trumpeter Swan

8

 

Monarch 1

Turkey Vulture

2

 

red velvet mite (Trombidium sp.)

1

Wild Turkey

9

 

red-blue checkered beetle

1

Wood Duck

(1)

 

red-legged grasshopper

1
   

 

robber flies (Family Asilidae)

2

Crustaceans

 

 

Silvery Checkerspot

1

virile crayfish

2

 

six-spotted fishing spider

2
   

 

spotted orbweaver

6

Destinations

 

 

widow skimmer

1

Afton State Park

1

 

   

Baker Park Reserve

2

 

Mammals

 
Banning State Park 4  

American Beaver

2

Beaver Creek Valley State Park

3

 

American Badger

1

Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary

14

 

Prairie Deer Mouse

1

Cannon River Wilderness Area

7

 

Southern Red-backed Vole

2

Carver Park Reserve

5

 

Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel 1
Como Regional Park 5

 

White-tailed Deer

4

Crosby Farm Regional Park

13

 

   

Crow-Hassan Park Reserve

5

 

Plants

 
Dodge Nature Center 11

 

American bittersweet

4

Elm Creek Park Reserve

2

 

American lopseed 2

Fort Ridgely State Park

6

 

big bluestem 1

Fort Snelling State Park

24

 

bloodroot

2

Grey Cloud Dunes SNA

11

 

blue vervain

4

Henry’s Woods

8

 

bracted spiderwort

2

Hyland Lake Park Reserve

4

 

Canada anemone 3

Joseph A. Tauer Prairie SNA

5

 

cardinal flower

1

Lake Elmo Park Reserve

4

 

cockspur hawthorn

3

Laurentian Divide Recreation Area

3

 

common winterberry 3

Lebanon Hills Regional Park

22

 

cut-leaved toothwort

1

Lilydale Regional Park

14

 

Dutchman’s breeches

1

Lost Valley Prairie SNA

7

 

eastern purple coneflower 1

Minnehaha Regional Park

7  

European cranberrybush

5

MN Valley NWR, Long Meadow Lake Unit

14

 

great blue lobelia (var. siphilitica)

3

MNRRA, Coldwater Spring

9

 

hoary puccoon

2

Myre-Big Island State Park

8

 

Indianpipe

1

Ney Nature Center

9

 

kidney-leaved buttercup 2

Pilot Knob

9

 

leadplant 1
Pine Bend Bluffs SNA 2

 

New England aster 3

Prairie Creek Woods SNA

2

 

nodding bur marigold

2

Roberts Bird Sanctuary

11

 

pointed-leaved tick-trefoil

2
St. Croix State Park 3

 

prairie alumroot

2
Silverwood Park 6

 

prairie spiderwort

4

Spring Lake Park Reserve

6

 

rattlesnake master

4

Sunfish Lake Park

5  

silver maple

2
Tony Schmidt Regional Park 13

 

southern blue flag

6

Uncas Dunes SNA

2

 

spreading Jacob’s ladder

2

Vermillion Highlands Research Recreation and WMA

3

 

tall bellflower

2

Whitetail Woods Regional Park

5

 

tall thimbleweed

3

Wild River State Park

5

 

white doll’s daisy (var. recognita)

2

Wood-Rill SNA

3

 

white snakeroot

3

 

 

 

white wild indigo

2

Fungi and Lichens

 

 

yellow avens

4

Aborted Entoloma

2

 

yellow marsh marigold

2

Beautiful Russula

1

 

 

 

Chicken of the Woods

3

 

Reptiles

 

Crown-tipped Coral

2

 

Common Garter Snake

1

Dryad’s Saddle

3

 

Common Snapping Turtle 14

Elm Oyster

4

 

 

 

False Turkey Tail

1

 

Slime Molds

 

Gabled False Morel

3

 

red raspberry slime mold

2

Jellied False Coral Fungus

2

 

   
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Birds

 

 

Destinations

 

Eastern Towhee

1  

Cannon River Wilderness Area

1

Pileated Woodpecker

1      
Trumpeter Swan 1

 

   

Turkey Vulture

2