Hi All, Friends of Sax-Zim Bog & Hawk Ridge had a joint bioblitz this year. The Bog to Ridge BioBlitz IV netted over 420 species! (374 at Sax-Zim Bog)
Over 40 folks turn up amazing bog biodiversity! NINETY NEW SPECIES added to the Sax-Zim Bog composite list on Saturday July 16th SEE PHOTOS AND COMPLETE LIST AT LINK BELOW: http://saxzim.org/bog-to-ridge-bioblitz-iv-nets-over-420-species-374-at-sax-zim-bog/ Our Saturday July 16 Bog Bioblitz drew over 40 folks on an absolutely gorgeous day! Highlights included 5 singing male White-winged Crossbills on McDavitt, a Black-backed Woodpecker on McDavitt, Gray Fox (Sparky), Bobcat (Norma Malinowski), Clinton found two new fish species for the Bog including Golden Shiner, Pinesap discovered at Cotton School Forest along with many orchids Malaxis uniflora, 100,000 Xyris montana plants (Minnesota Special Concern species), 28 species of butterflies including Baltimore Checkerspot and Bog Copper, Purple Fringed Orchid, Ragged Fringed Orchid, a first Bog record of Marsh Grass-of-Parnassus, 21 species of dragonflies, Sparky found a Broad-winged Hawk nest with two young, 2 FIRST STATE RECORD SPIDERS and more cool stuff….Details, more photos and a complete species list to follow in our e-Newsletter (next week). Thanks to all our leaders and participants! See you again next summer! On Sunday the 17th we had the “Ridge” part of the bioblitz at Hawk Ridge. 75 new species were added to the Hawk Ridge composite species list. Check out www.hawkridge.org for more details. The field trips tallied a total of 374 species of organisms (a bit less than last year) but we added an impressive 90 (!) species to the Composite Sax-Zim Bog List: 23 species of moths (20 NEW…thanks to Kristina Dexter and Clinton Nienhaus) 10 species of mammal (1 NEW…Bobcat seen by Norma Malinowski; also Gray Fox (Sparky), Striped Skunk (Jessica Dexter), Coyote, Snowshoe Hare, Franklin’s Ground Squirrel) 16 species of trees and shrubs (5 NEW…several willow species added by Kelly Beaster) 4 species of reptiles and amphibians (Mink Frogs calling, Garter Snake, Wood Frog) 85 species of birds (White-winged Crossbills, Black-billed Cuckoo, Black-backed Woodpecker, Broad-winged Hawk nest with 2 young, Sandhill Crane, 10 species of warbler, etc) 22 species of odonata (5 NEW…Williamson’s Emerald, Stream Cruiser, Northern Spreadwing, Sweetflag Spreadwing and Stream Bluet) 90 species of wildflowers (9 NEW…Pinesap, Marsh Grass-of-Parnassus, Pipsissewa, etc) 29 species of butterflies (5 NEW…Purplish Copper, Question Mark, Common Ringlet, etc) 28 species of grasses, rushes, sedges (8 NEW…Arrow Grass, Rough-leaved Ricegrass, Drooping Woodreed, etc) 5 species of fish (2 NEW…Golden Shiner, Fathead Minnow) 1 species of crustacean (1 NEW…Northern Crayfish) 27 species of spider (17 NEW…Tuft-legged Orbweaver, Splendid Dwarf Spider, White-banded Crab Spider) 4 species of lichen (2 NEW…Green Reindeer Lichen, Alternating Dog Lichen) 7 species of fern (1 NEW…Spinulose Shield Fern) 6 species of clubmoss (4 NEW…Bristly Clubmoss, Running Clubmoss, Shining Clubmoss, etc) 2 species of moss (2 NEW…Magellanic Bogmoss, Polytrichium moss) 2 species of horsetail 1 species of grape fern (1 NEW…Leathery Grapefern) 3 species of bumble bees (2 NEW…Fernald Cuckoo Bumble Bee, Indiscriminate Cuckoo Bumble Bee) 2 species of ladybird beetle (2 NEW…Seven-spotted Ladybird Beetle, Asian Multicolored Ladybird Beetle) 4 species of other insects (3 NEW…Phantom Cranefly, Woolly Aphid, Scorpionfly) Sparky Stensaas 2515 Garthus Road Wrenshall MN 55797 218.341.3350 sparkystens...@hotmail.com www.ThePhotoNaturalist.com www.KollathStensaas.com www.SaxZim.org ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
