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
Map
Transcriber’s Notes
- Silently corrected a few typos.
- Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook is public-domain in the country of publication.
- In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by _underscores_.