Tuesday October 3, 2017 Nature Walk

 Today's birding was a little slow. We had 23 species of birds, moat of the usual suspects. A lot of  the birds were heard only. We had a good looks at Great Blue Heron and an Eastern Phoebe.

The walks are called nature walks for a reason. As we look for birds we also observe other facets of nature including plants animals, and insects. At the end of the walk we stumbled across what looked like a Praying Mantis. In looking it up in my insect book it looks like a Chinese Mantid. Both are introduced species. The Praying Mantis was accidentally introduced in 1899 on nursery stock from Europe. The Chinese Mantid was intentionally introduced in 1896