Palmyra Cove Nature Park

I've taken a description of the park from their website.
Palmyra Cove Nature Park (PCNP) is 250 acres of green in a highly developed area on the Delaware River just south of the Tacony Palmyra Bridge. With its woodlands, wetlands, tidal cove and wild river shore line, PCNP serves as an important feeding site for migratory birds.
Here is their website.
http://www.palmyracove.org/

This was the first time I've been here and I was really impressed.There were lots of birds there today but I was unable to get any pics of those. I'll post quite a few pics of plants and other things and I'm hoping you can ID the plants for me.Thank you.

Here's the Tacony Palmyra Bridge that goes into Philadelphia which is right next to the beginning of the park.

This is Beaver Lake area and thats probably their construction on the opposite side.

Here are some of the plants I'll need ID's on please.

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A Monarch Butterfly I assume.

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far away shot

close shot

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sorry for the repeat

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last one

I'll leave you with a young deer we saw. Thanks for your help.

I wish I was able to explore that area with you Pelle. It certainly looks awesome.

Very nice shots, Pell. I think the butterfly is actually a Monarch look-alike called a Viceroy.

Thanks duckmother!

Mitt, Hi it was very nice. Lots of walking but thankfully there are many benches around so you can keep resting. We did not get to cover every single area it would just take too long but we did a good bit of it. We met someone from Philly that says he's there almost every day.

I really wish I could have gotten shots of all the Warblers that were there but alas my DH had most of the equipment and he was usually 100 or more feet ahead of me.:-)

I go over that bridge everyday but that old bridge never looked so good. Terrific pictures.

I've seen some huge turtles on the other side of the cove and just two weeks ago saw a fox walking around. I used to see deer but haven't seen them this year. Lots of different birds in the area and I've seen many red tail hawks. Canadian geese nest there in the spring too.

I love the area but haven't explored it yet.

Hi pelle - Not sure, but the first one might be Eupatorium serotinum.

http://www.missouriplants.com/Whiteopp/Eupatorium_serotinum_page.html


Your second white flower looks like Eupatorium rugosum.

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/1332/

The tree with red flower spikes is Staghorn Sumac, Rhus typhina. The next plant is Pokeweed, Phytolacca americana, a bird favorite, and the "last one" is Asclepias curassavica, a milkweed. The yellow one before that looks like another milkweed, and the other yellow flowers look like Solidago of some kind, but I'm not sure.

That looks like a nice place, never been there. I go to Tinicum Marsh sometimes, the other side of the Delaware I guess. That's a nice spot too, especially for bird watching

This message was edited Oct 1, 2008 12:29 AM

Thanks very much claypa!

Glad you liked the pics guys.

Hi Pell - the picture that is fourth from the bottom is Pokeweed (phytolacca). Here is an interesting link:

http://waynesword.palomar.edu/ecoph24.htm

Susan

Second and third from the bottom looks like it might be butterfly weed (asclepias)

http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=ASTU



This message was edited Oct 3, 2008 7:43 AM

Puuurty pelletory , a lot different than here .

Last two Milkweed, I have the same kinds. Nice pics, Pelle. Just found this thread.