May 10th, continued. A walk east from Cook Hill Road in Lebanon past the cattle barns.

 

The exit stream from the marsh...

 

...had several Painted Turtles (Chrysemys picta) catching some rays.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lots of Buttercups (Ranunculus sp.) in bloom...

 

...attracting various insect pollinators. This is a Syrphid Flower Fly (Family Syrphidae).

 

Two more Syrphids.

 

Wild Geranium (Geranium maculatum) was everywhere.

 

 

 

Solitary Bee (Family Andrenidae), a pollen feeder.

 

 

 

 

 

Spring-Beauty (Claytonia virginica) well past its prime.

 

Bluets (Houstonia caerulea).

 

 

 

Round-leaved Pyrola (Pyrola rotundifolia) is startying to put up bloom stalks.

 

Lots of little Violets blooming (Viola sp.).

 

I turn around at the powerline crossing.

 

 

 

Eastern Chipmunk (Tamias striatus).

 

Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale).

 

 

 

Ants (Family Formicidae) and what I think is a Cuckoo Bee (Family Apidae, Subfamily Nomadinae).

 

Dandelion seed head.

 

 

 

May 11th. Workers got an early start positioning...

 

 

 

...and driving down steel forms...

 

...until I think they hit rock. (I didn't stay around to see what they did to move forward.)

 

May 12th. Someone picked the two Pink Lady's-Slipper orchids that were blooming close to the trail. (Pictures of them in the previous page.)

 

Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) just built a nest on a pretty marginal spot out in Raymond Brook Marsh.

 

Big doings at Old Colchester Road. A pedestrian bridge for the workers, and a system of heavy bags and plastic to divert water under the old bridge.

 

Lowering in a bag.

 

 

 

 

 

Demolishing the last of the concrete walls of the old bridge.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Looks like that tunnel is isolated. I wonder how they'll take it out.

 

Back around 3 PM and don't know how they did it, but the tunnel structures are gone and the stream is running free.

 

 

 

A bundle of the former tunnel metal.