Spring flowers are blooming everywhere, and that means that our sister site Flora Pittsburghensis is filling up with more pictures. Here are a few to get you started, and you can see many more over there.
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Spring Wildflowers
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November Colors in Bird Park, Mount Lebanon
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Fall Colors in Bird Park
Fall colors today in Bird Park, Mount Lebanon. Sassafrass (Sassafrass albidum) is especially colorful right now, with some trees turning red and orange shades and others bright yellow.
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Fungus Shelves
In Bird Park, Mount Lebanon.
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Stream Valley in Bird Park, Mount Lebanon
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Fox Squirrel
Sciurus niger in Bird Park, Mount Lebanon. This is the largest of our tree squirrels, easily confused with the almost-as-big grey squirrel (Sciurus calolinensis), but usually distinguishable by a certain amount of brownish coloring, which the grey squirrel seldom has.
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Lichens and Bracket Fungi
On a fallen tree in Bird Park, Mount Lebanon.
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Bracket Fungi
Bracket fungus growing on a fallen tree in Bird Park, Mount Lebanon. -
Fallen Tree
The forest reclaims a fallen tree in Bird Park, Mount Lebanon.
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Bracket Fungus on a Log
Bracket fungus on a log in the woods in Bird Park. In the background, Phlox divaricata.
