NOW IT’S UP TO YOU!

For your added interest the following personal check list of 179 specimens discussed in this field guide allows for recording where and when you make your own discoveries at Castle Neck.

As a matter of convenience, animals are arranged by chapter and broad groupings.

Use the Field Note pages for additional observations.

PERSONAL CHECKLIST

Chapter I. “The Shifting Dunes”

Date seen Locality

Beach Porcupines
Erratics
Fulgurites
Garnets
Glacial till
Ventifacts

Chapter III. “Plants on the Dunes”

Mushrooms
Earth Star
Flowering Plants
Beach Clotbur
Beach Grass
Beach Pea
Beach Pinweed
Blunt-leaved Sandwort
Dusty Miller
Glasswort
Sea Lavender
Sea Milkwort
Seaside Goldenrod
Woolly Hudsonia
Trees and Shrubs
Bayberry
Beach Plum
Black Cherry
Pitch Pine
Poison Ivy
Quaking Aspen
(Some other flowers of Castle Neck at end of chapter.)

Chapter IV. “Life at the Edge of the Sea”

Seaweeds
Coralline Algae
Irish Moss
Kelp (Common)
(Fingered)
(Perforated)
Polysiphonia
Rockweed (Common)
(Nodose)
Sea Lettuce
Lower Animals
Anemone
Barnacle
Clam (Edible)
(Hardshell)
(Razor)
(Surf)
Clam Worm
Crab (Green)
(Jonah)
(Rock)
Horseshoe Crab
Jellyfish (Red)
(White)
Lobster
Moon Snail
Mussel (Edible)
(Ribbed)
Oyster
Periwinkle
Rock Purple
Sand Dollar
Sea Urchin
Shrimp (Prawn)
(Sand)
Slipper Shell
Sponge (Crumb-of-Bread)
(Finger)
Starfish
Fishes
Killifish
Pipefish
Sand Lance
Silverside
Skate
Stickleback

Chapter V. “Insects and their Kin”

Insect-Like Animals
Centipede
Harvestman
Millipede
Sow Bug
Spider (Crab)
(Jumping)
(Orange-and-Black Garden)
(Orb weaving)
(Sheet web)
(Wolf)
Tick
True Insects
Aphid (Woolly Alder)
Ant (Carpenter)
(Mound)
Bee (Bumble)
(Honey)
Beetle (Carrion)
(Click)
(Firefly)
(Ground)
(Japanese)
(Ladybug)
(May)
(Snout)
(Tiger)
Bug (Red-and-Black Milkweed)
(Stink)
Butterfly (Cabbage)
(Monarch)
(Skipper)
(Sulphur)
(Tiger Swallowtail)
(Wood Nymph)
Caterpillar (Salt Marsh)
(Tent)
Cricket (Field)
(Snowy Tree)
Damselfly
Dragonfly
Earwig (European)
(Seaside)
Fly (Crane)
(Deer)
(Horse)
(Robber)
(Syrphid)
Grasshopper (Short-horned)
Hornet (Bald-faced)
Lacewing
Mantis (Praying)
Mayfly
Measuringworm
Midge (Biting)
(Gall)
Mosquito
Moth (Cecropia)
(Luna)
(Sphinx)
(Tiger)
Scale (Oyster-shell)
Wasp (Potter)
Webworm

Chapter VI. “Meeting the Mammals”

Bat (Big Brown)
(Hoary)
(Little Brown)
(Pipistrelles)
(Red)
(Silver-haired)
Chipmunk
Cottontail (New England)
Deer (White-tailed)
Fox (Red)
Muskrat
Mouse (White-footed)
(Eastern Meadow)
(Meadow Jumping)
Mink
Raccoon
Shrew (Cinereus)
(Short-tailed)
Skunk
Squirrel (Eastern Gray)
(Red)
Woodchuck
Weasel (Long-tailed)

Chapter VII. “Wings over the Sand”

Blackbird (Redwinged)
Bunting (Snow)
Dove (Mourning)
Duck (Black)
Grebe (Horned)
Gull (Great Black-backed)
(Herring)
Hawk (Marsh)
(Sparrow)
Heron (Black-crowned Night)
Kingbird (Eastern)
Loon (Common)
Owl (Great Horned)
(Snowy)
Plover (Black bellied)
(Piping)
(Semipalmated)
Sanderling
Sandpiper (Semipalmated)
Sparrow (Ipswich)
Swallow (Tree)
Tern (Common)
Thrasher (Brown)
Towhee (Rufous-sided)
Warbler (Yellow)
Yellowlegs (Greater)
Yellowthroat
(Sixty common birds of Castle Neck at end of chapter)

FIELD NOTES

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Transcriber’s Notes