10/09/2026
Lake Wallace BioBlitz, Oct 9 - Oct 12
The list is reasonably finalized, below, but there's lots missing!
Be sure to send your sightings by comment or send a note to [email protected]
Join us at the Lake Wallace Sensory Trail tomorrow morning 9-11am to add to the list of lovely and fabulous diversity of life in and around Lake Wallace! I will certainly be scooping, sorting, and identifying at the far side of Foley Field around 10:30am onwards
Reasonably final results, 3:30pm Oct 9 - evening Oct 12
*imaged
Trees
Staghorn sumac
White Oak
Red Oak
Pin Oak
Red Maple
Sugar Maple*
Green Ash *
White Ash
Hickory sp
Black Cherry
White pine
Kousa Dogwood
Magnolia sp *
Hemlock *
Redcedar
Paper Birch
Gray Birch
Hawthorn sp
Honey Locust
Bigtooth Aspen
Black Oak
Scarlet Oak
Chestnut
Sassafras
Norway Maple
Swamp White Oak
Chestnut
Yew
Yellow Birch
American Hornbeam (aka Bluebeech, Musclewood, Ironwood)
American Elm (horticultural variety)
Crabapple
Shrubs
Burning bush
"Spindle" Euonymus *
Russian olive
Asian Honeysuckle
Multiflora rose
Chinese privet *
Mountain Laurel *
Red osier Dogwood
Grey Dogwood *
Common Buckthorn *
Glossy Buckthorn
Winterberry
Arrowwood?* Foley side of bridge, (Doublefile, subsp/hort variety?)
Smooth Arrowwood? * = Viburnum dentatum or Japanese Snowball or V Seibold?, by ½ bridge by the “Lampson Brook headwaters” sign
Common Elderberry * (by Rail deck, like skinny ash leaves)
Highbush Blueberries
Spicebush *
Canadian Serviceberry/Shadbush *
Flowering plants (non-woody or vines)
Fox grape
Virginia creeper
Bittersweet
Milkw**d
Cattail
Phragmites
Goldenrod sp
Zigzag or Bluestem? Goldenrod *
Swamp loosestrife *
Poison ivy
New England Aster
Raspberry
Blackberry (bramble)
Curly Dock
Jewelw**d
Queen Anne's Lace
Prickly cucumber
Bedstraw
Pokew**d
Maple-leaf Viburnum *
Crown Vetch *
Virgin's Bower
Yellow Toadflax/Wild Snapdragon
Chickory
Mullein
Smart w**d *
Mugwort
Ragw**d
Common Motherwort *
Ladies Thumb * (spike of tiny pinkish flowers)
Sweet Everlasting (aka Rabbit to***co, tight white flowers) *
Ground Ivy, Creeping Charlie *
Wintercreeper, Euonymus *
Tansy *
Variegated Yellow Archangel (near post #85, very invasive!)
Bouncing Bette
Buttercup cinquefoil
European Plantain
White Clover
Red Clover
Milkw**d
Duckw**d
Sarsaparilla (not Trillium)*
Pokew**d
False Solomons Seal
Canada Mayflower
Wintergreen
Partidgeberry
Beggar's ticks *
Bullrush *
Fox tail grass
Purple lovegrass
Non-flowering plants
Bracken fern
Hay scented fern
Sensitive fern
Christmas tree fern
Lycopodium
Spagnum moss
Duck w**d
Anacharis
Bladderwort
Milfoil (not elodea)
Spirogyra (algae, not the band)
Mammals
Chipmunk
Gray squirrel
Red Squirrel
Bear (s**t) *
Coyote (s**t) *
Horse (manure)
River Otter *video
Beaver (den)
Herps (reptiles & amphibians)
Bullfrog
Green frog
Tree frog
Salamander, aquatic adult (likely red-backed)
Painted turtle
Snapping Turtle
N Water snake
Garter snake
Birds
Blue Jay
Chipping sparrow
Song sparrow
White throated sparrow
Red winged blackbird
White breasted nuthatch
Gray Catbird
Raven
Red tailed Hawk, imm, caught a blackbird!
Eastern bluebird, harassing the hawk!
American Goldfinch
Red bellied woodpecker
Downey woodpecker
Flicker
Starling
American Robin
Tufted titmouse
Black capped Chickadee
Cedar waxwing
Yellow rumped Warbler
Canada Goose
Mallard
Pigeon
Eastern Phoebe
Mourning Dove
Tufted Titmouse
Common Grackle
Yellow bellied Sapsucker
Pileated Woodpecker
Chipping sparrow
Insects
Yellow jacket sp
Bumblebee sp
Cricket sp
Field cricket
Monarch
Gnats
Cabbage moth
Milkw**d beetle
Praying Mantis
Honey bee
Water Boatman
Backswimmer
Damselfly larva
Dragonfly larva
Mayfly larva
Caddisfly larva
Hellgrammite (Dobsonfly larva)
Other arthropods
Daphnia
Copepod
Amphipod (Scud)
Water Mite
Water Spider
Jumping spider *
Dog tick
Deer tick
Other invertebrates
NE Medicinal Leech
Snail Leech
Mud Snail
Ram's Horn Snail
Fingernail Clam
Fungi
Crustose lichen
Coral fungus
Shelf fungus/mushroom
Turkey tail mushroom
Lake Wallace Fall Fest
Clapp Memorial Library
Belchertown Recreation Department
Belchertown Community TV
Belchertown Senior Center
Belchertown Day School
Belchertown Playgroup
Christopher Heights of Belchertown
