Kirk Nelson

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Amphibians

  

 

Fungi and Lichens (continued)

  

Holarctic Treefrogs (Dryophytes spp.)

 1

 

Jellied False Coral Fungus

 2

Northern Leopard Frog

 2

 

Leafy Brain

 1
Wood Frog 2

 

Northern Tooth

 2

 

  

 

Orange Peel Fungus

 2

Birds

  

 

Pear-shaped Puffball

 2

American White Pelican

 2

 

Purple-bloom Russula

 1

Bald Eagle

 1

 

Purple-gilled Laccaria

 2

Baltimore Oriole

 2

 

Ravenel’s Stinkhorn

 1
Barn Swallow 1

 

Shaggy Mane

 1

Barred Owl

 3

 

Turkey Tail

 2
Blue-winged Teal 1

 

White Jelly Fungus

 2

Brown-headed Cowbird

 1

 

    
Canada Goose 1

 

Insects and Arachnids

  

Eastern Kingbird

 2

 

bald-faced hornet

 4

Eastern Towhee

 2

 

 blue-fronted dancer 2

Great Blue Heron

 3

 

blue-margined ground beetle

 1

Great Egret

 1

 

bronzed tiger beetle

 2

Green Heron

 4

 

common green darner

 1

Hooded Merganser

 (1)

 

common whitetail

 2

Olive-sided Flycatcher

 1

 

curve-tailed bush katydid

 1
Pileated Woodpecker 1

 

eastern pondhawk

 1

Red-bellied Woodpecker

 2

 

 ebony jewelwing 2

Ring-necked Pheasant

 2

 

 impressive meloine beetle 1

Trumpeter Swan

 8

 

 margined burying beetle 2

Turkey Vulture

 2

 

 Monarch 1

Wild Turkey

 9

 

red velvet mite (Trombidium sp.)

 1

Wood Duck

 (1)

 

red-blue checkered beetle

 1
   

 

red-legged grasshopper

 1

Crustaceans

  

 

robber flies (Family Asilidae)

 2

virile crayfish

 2

 

Silvery Checkerspot

 1
   

 

six-spotted fishing spider

 2

Destinations

  

 

spotted orbweaver

 6

Afton State Park

 1

 

widow skimmer

 1

Baker Park Reserve

 2

 

    
Banning State Park 4  

Mammals

  

Beaver Creek Valley State Park

 3

 

American Beaver

 2

Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary

 14

 

American Badger

 1

Cannon River Wilderness Area

 7

 

Prairie Deer Mouse

 1

Carver Park Reserve

 5

 

Southern Red-backed Vole

 2
Como Regional Park 5

 

 Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel 1

Crosby Farm Regional Park

 13

 

White-tailed Deer

 4

Crow-Hassan Park Reserve

 5

 

    
Dodge Nature Center 11

 

Plants

  

Elm Creek Park Reserve

 2

 

American bittersweet

 4

Fort Ridgely State Park

 6

 

 American lopseed 2

Fort Snelling State Park

 24

 

 American pasqueflower (2)

Grey Cloud Dunes SNA

 11

 

 big bluestem 1
He Mni Can / Barn Bluff Regional Park 24

 

bloodroot

 2

Henry’s Woods

 8

 

blue vervain

 4

Hyland Lake Park Reserve

 4

 

bracted spiderwort

 2

Joseph A. Tauer Prairie SNA

 5

 

 Canada anemone 3

Lake Elmo Park Reserve

 4

 

cardinal flower

 1

Laurentian Divide Recreation Area

 3

 

cockspur hawthorn

 3

Lebanon Hills Regional Park

 22

 

 common winterberry 3

Lilydale Regional Park

 14

 

cut-leaved toothwort

 1

Lost Valley Prairie SNA

 7

 

Dutchman’s breeches

 1

Minnehaha Regional Park

 7   eastern purple coneflower 1

MN Valley NWR, Long Meadow Lake Unit

 14

 

European cranberrybush

 5

MNRRA, Coldwater Spring

 9

 

great blue lobelia (var. siphilitica)

 3

Myre-Big Island State Park

 8

 

hoary puccoon

 2

Ney Nature Center

 9

 

Indianpipe

 1

Pilot Knob

 9

 

 kidney-leaved buttercup 2
Pine Bend Bluffs SNA 2

 

 leadplant 1

Prairie Creek Woods SNA

 2

 

 New England aster 3

Roberts Bird Sanctuary

 11

 

nodding bur marigold

 2
St. Croix State Park 3

 

pointed-leaved tick-trefoil

 2
Silverwood Park 6

 

prairie alumroot

 2

Spring Lake Park Reserve

 6

 

prairie spiderwort

 4

Sunfish Lake Park

 5  

rattlesnake master

 4
Tony Schmidt Regional Park 13

 

silver maple

 2

Uncas Dunes SNA

 2

 

southern blue flag

 6

Vermillion Highlands Research Recreation and WMA

 3

 

spreading Jacob’s ladder

 2

Whitetail Woods Regional Park

 5

 

tall bellflower

 2

Wild River State Park

 5

 

tall thimbleweed

 3

Wood-Rill SNA

 3

 

white doll’s daisy (var. recognita)

 2

 

  

 

white snakeroot

 3

Fungi and Lichens

  

 

white wild indigo

 2

Aborted Entoloma

 2

 

yellow avens

 4

Beautiful Russula

 1

 

yellow marsh marigold

 2

Chicken of the Woods

 3

 

 

  

Crown-tipped Coral

 2

 

Reptiles

  

Dryad’s Saddle

 3

 

Common Garter Snake

 1

Elm Oyster

 4

 

 Common Snapping Turtle 14

False Turkey Tail

 1

 

 

  

Gabled False Morel

 3

 

Slime Molds

  
   

 

red raspberry slime mold

 2
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Birds

  

 

Destinations

  

Eastern Towhee

 1  

Cannon River Wilderness Area

 1

Pileated Woodpecker

 1      
Trumpeter Swan 1

 

    

Turkey Vulture

 2