What to Look & Listen for at the Conservancy in May

Pheasant Branch Conservancy is home to an amazing assortment of plants and wildlife all year long. Here are the birds, animals, and plants to look out for when you visit Pheasant Branch Conservancy in May.

Birds

• Mallards hatching
• Sandhill cranes hatching
• Whip-poor-wills*
• Catbirds*
• Warblers*
• Blue-winged teals*
• Orioles*
• Wood thrushes*
• Scarlet tanagers*
• Indigo buntings*
• Ruby-throated hummingbirds*
• Eastern wood pewees*
• Nighthawks*
• Veery thrushes

*spring migration arrivals

Other Animals

• Cabbage white butterflies
• Spring azure butterflies
• Beaver kits born
• Monarch butterflies*
• Cricket frogs
• Mink frogs
• June beetles

*spring migration arrivals

Trees, Grasses & Flowers

• Morel mushrooms
• Wild asparagus
• Dandelions
• Large trillium
• Bird’s-foot violet
• Wild gooseberry
• Columbine
• Shooting stars
• Wild geraniums
• Wild lupine
• Jack-in-the-pulpit
• Anemone
• Wild iris

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Meteorological Data

• Average temperature (high/low): 69°F/49°F
• Average precipitation (rain): 3.2”
• Average hours of daylight: 14.7