2006 CALENDAR 
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        All 
          2006 Photos
        January 
          6:   Great Blue Heron
          January 
          7:   Welcome to Fresh Pond in Winter (FFPR 
          Program)
          January 
          28: Specimen Trees at Fresh Pond (FFPR Program)
          January 
          29: White Oak (Quercus alba)
          January 
          31: River Birch (Betula nigra)
          
          February 
          2:  Witch Hazel (Hamamelis vernalis)
          February 
          3:   Crows
          February 
          4:   Welcome to Fresh Pond ( FFPR Program)
          February 
          5:   Pin Oak (Quercus palustrus)
          February 
          9:   Red-stemmed Dogwood (Cornus stolonifera)
          February 
          10: The Fresh Pond Golf Course
          February 
          13: Snow Day
          February 
          15: Witch Hazel (Hamamelis vernalis)
          February 
          16: Construction begins at Little Fresh Pond
          February 
          17: Weeping Willow, Salix babylonica
          February 
          19: The 
          Indoor Naturalist (FFPR Program)
          February 
          20: Frozen Pond
          February 
          21: Bird Sightings Board
          February 
          22: Cedar Waxwing
          
          March 
          2:   Silver Maple (Acer saccharinum)
          March 
          3:   Construction 
          at Fresh Pond Reservation
          March 
          4:   Welcome to Fresh Pond (FFPR Prpgram)
          March 
          5:   Nature Lives, A Winter Ecology Walk (FFPR Program)
          March 
          6:   American Beech (Fagus grandifolia) 
          March 
          8:   Waterfowl on Black's Nook
          March 
          12: Animal Sign at Fresh Pond (FFPR Program)
          March 
          16: Coir fascine
          March 
          17: Neville Mountain
          March 
          18: Little Fresh Pond from the North
          March 
          19: Shifting Patterns, Shifting Significance:
                              The 
          History of Fresh Pond in the Nineteenth Century (FFPR Program)
          March 
          22: Future Butterfly Meadow
          March 
          23: Beech Path, North End
          March 
          25: Early Spring Bird Walk (FFPR Program)
          March 
          28: Changing Landscape
          March 
          29: Canada Geese at Black's Nook
          
          April 
          2:   A Nesting Box for Small Birds at Black's Nook
          April 
          7:   Weeping Willows (Salix babylonica)
          April 
          8:   "Canceled" Birdwalk (FFPR Program
          April 
          11: Payson Park, Belmont (A Cambridge Reservior)
          April 
          12: Cattail (Typha latifolia)
          April 
          15: The Best Part of Spring is Just Around the Corner
          April 
          16: Narcissus
          April 
          17: Little Fresh Pond Dog Beach
          April 
          18: Fiddleheads of Christmas Fern (Polystichum acrostichoides) 
          
          April 
          20: Whitlow Grass (Draba verna)
          April 
          22: Shoreline Plants at Little Fresh Pond
          April 
          27: Shadbush, Juneberry, Service Berry (Amelanchier canadensis)
          April 
          29: Shifting Patterns, Shifting Significance
                           The 
          History of Fresh Pond in the Nineteenth Century (FFPR Program)
          April 
          29: Sensitive Fern (Onoclea sensibilis)
        May 
          2:   Common Blue Violet (Viola papilionacea)
          May 
          3:   Redbud (Cercis canadensis)
          May 
          4:   A Bench for Little Fresh Pond
          May 
          5:   Trout Lily, Dogtooth Violet (Erythronium americanum)
          May 
          6:   Garlic Mustard (Allaria officinalis)
          May 
          14: Woodland Horsetail (Equisetum sylvaticum), Sensitive Fern 
          (Onoclea sensibilis)
          May 
          15: Flood Time
          May 
          20: After the Bird Walk  
          (FFPR Program) 
          May 
          21: Life Under a Log (FFPR Program) 
          May 
          22: A Northeast Sector Walkabout (Water Dept. Program)
          May 
          23: Wild Geranium (Geranium maculatum)
          May 
          24: Lily-of-the-Valley (Convallaria majalis)
          May 
          25: "Lusitania Mountain" at Lusitania Field
          May 
          26: Yellow Iris, Iris pseudoacorus
          May 
          27: Oxeye Daisy (Chrysanthemum leucanthemum)
          May 
          29: Shrubby Cinquefoil (Potentilla fructosa)
          May 
          30: Highbush Cranberry (Viburnum trilobum)
          May 
          31: Ohio Pioneer Dotted Hawthorn 
          ( Crataegus punctata)
          
          June 
          1:   Northern or Yellow-shafted Flicker
          June 
          2:   Tower Mustard (Arabis glabra)
          June 
          4:   Copepods from Black's Nook
          June 
          4:   Pond Life at Black's Nook (FFPR 
          Program) 
          June 
          7:   A Quintessential Biodiversity Walk (FFPR 
          Program) 
          June 
          14: Larger Blue Flag (Iris versicolor)
          June 
          15: Elder (Sambucus canadensis)
          June 
          16: Panicled Dogwood (Cornus racemosa)
          June 
          17: A Sedge (Carex lurida)
          June 
          19: Cow Vetch (Vicia cracca)
          June 
          21: Summer Solstice Bird Walk (FFPR 
          Program) 
          June 
          23: Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)
          June 
          24: A 
          Slime Mold (Stemonitis axifera)
          June 
          26: A Northeast Sector Walkabout (Water 
          Dept. Program) 
          June 
          30: Mushrooms, 
          Genus Mycena
          
          July 
          1:   White Pine (Pinus strobus) 
          New 
          Cone 
          
          July 
          2:   Juneberry (Amalanchier canadensis) 
          July 
          3:   A Tour of the Water Treatment Plant (FFPR Program)
          July 
          4:   Motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca)
          July 
          5:   Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia serotina) and Honey 
          Bee (Apis mellifera)
          July 
          6:   Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa)
          July 
          7:   New Path 
          near Neville Place
          July 
          8:   New Lusitania Mountain?
          July 
          9:   Beat-the-Heat Bird Walk (FFPR Program)
          July 
          10: Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)
          July 
          11: Blue Vervain (Verbena hastata) 
          July 
          16: Purple-flowering Raspberry (Rubus odoratus)
          July 
          17: The Bench at Little Fresh Pond 
          July 
          18: Sifting Soil at Lusitania Field 
          July 
          19: Horse Nettle (Solinum carolinense)
          July 
          20: Water Chestnut (Trapa natans)
          July 
          22: Wildflower Identification Using Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (FFPR 
          Program)
          July 
          23: Spiders, Insects, and Other Creepy Crawlers (FFPR 
          Program)
          July 
          24: A Northeast Sector Walkabout (Water 
          Dept. Program) 
          July 
          24: Storm Damage at Black's Nook
          
          August 
          1:   Pink Sweet Pepperbush (Clethra 
          alnifolia) 
          
          August 
          2:   Interrupted Fern (Osmunda claytoniana) 
          August 
          4:   Umbrella Sedge (Cyperus strigosus)
          August 
          5:   Elder (Sambucus canadensis) 
          August 
          6:   The Case for Native Garden Plants (FFPR 
          Program)
          August 
          7:   Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria)
          August 
          8:   White Boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum)
          August 
          9:   Black-eyed Susan or Coneflower (Rudbeckia serotina) 
          
          August 
          11: Highbush Cranberry (Viburnum trilobum)
          August 
          12: American Filbert or Hazelnut (Corylus Americana)
          August 
          15: Tall Ironweed (Veronia altissima)
          August 
          16: Flat-topped Aster (Doellingeria umbellatus)
          August 
          17: Common Witch Hazel (Hamamelis virginiana) 
          August 
          18: Virginia Rose (Rosa virginica) 
          August 
          19: Partridge Pea (Cassia fasciculata)
          August 
          20: Red-stemmed or Red-osier Dogwood (Cornus stolonifera) 
          
          August 
          22: Black Swallowwort (Cynanchum louisiae) 
          August 
          23: Common Dodder (Cuscuta gronovii )
          August 
          24: Coxcomb Coral (Clavulina cristata)
          August 
          25: Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis) and Great Lobelia (Lobelia 
          siphilitica) 
          August 
          26: Wild Cucumber or Wild Balsam Apple(Echinocystis lobata) 
          
          August 
          27: Swamp Smartweed (Polygonum coccineum) 
          August 
          28: A Northeast Sector Walkabout (Water 
          Dept. Program) 
          August 
          28: Praying Mantis (Mantis religiosa)
          August 
          29: Pokeweed (Phytolacca americana)
          August 
          30: Wild Senna ( Cassia hebecarpa) 
          August 
          31: Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)
        September 
          6: White Wood Aster(Eurybia divericata)
          September 
          8:   Insects that Fly at Night (FFPR 
          Program)
          September 
          9:   Nodding Smartweed (Polygonum lapathifolium)
          September 
          10: Kingsley Park Lower Hillside 
          September 
          11: The Woods Near Sousa's Rock 
          September 
          12: Large Milkweed Bugs (Oncopeltus fasciatus) 
          
          September 
          14: Black and Yellow Agriope (Agriope aurantia) 
          
          September 
          15: Angular-winged Katydid (Microcentrum retinerve) 
          
          September 
          16: The Bench at Little Fresh Pond
          September 
          17: Rye (Secale cereal) 
          September 
          18: Tall Goldenrod (Solidago altissima)
          September 
          19: New England Aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae) 
          
          September 
          20: Jerusalem Artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus) 
          
          September 
          21: White Wood Aster (Eurybia divericata) 
          
          September 
          22:Whitemarked Tussock Moth caterpillar (Orgyia leucostigma) 
          
          September 
          23: Heart-leaved Aster (Symphyotrichum cordifolium) 
          
          September 
          24: Fall Wildflower Identification 
          (FFPR Program) 
          
          September 
          25: Plantings near the New Soccer Field
          September 
          26: Students Collecting Plankton at Black's Nook
        October 
          1: A Mushroom Marathon (FFPR 
          Program)
          October 
          1: Three Mushroom Photos.
          October 
          2: A 
          youngster admires the Water Department's Kubota truck
          October 
          4: Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)
          October 
          6: Bullseye--A view through the ring sculpture 
          October 
          7: Autumn Treasures: Nuts, Seeds, and Fruit (FFPR 
          Program)
          October 
          8: Insect Inventory in the Kingsley Park Bioswale 
          (FFPR 
          Program)
          October 
          9: Holiday at the Dog Beach 
          October 
          10: Sugar Maple Leaf (Acer saccharum) 
          
          October 
          11: Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexxipus)  
          October 
          12: White Ash (Fraxinus Americana)
          October 
          14: Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca 
          )
          October 
          15: Kingsley Park Hillside. White Pine (Pinus strobus), Sugar 
          Maples (Acer       saccharum), 
          and Red Oak (Quercus rubra) 
          October 
          16: View from in front of the Water Purification Facility 
          
          October 
          24: Osprey eating a fish 
          October 
          30: A tour of the Water Purification Facility-The Pump Room (FFPR 
          Program)
          October 
          31: A Halloween Gourd Party at Neville Place (FFPR 
          Program) 
          
          November 
          3: Sunset Over Little Fresh Pond
          November 
          4: Purple Loosestrife Biocontrol Project (FFPR 
          Program) 
          November 
          6: Kingsley Park Peninsula 
          November 
          16: Weeping Willow (Salix babylonica)
          November 
          19: Winter Wildflower Identification Program (FFPR 
          Program)
          November 
          24: River Birch, (Betula nigra) bark
          November 
          26: Smooth Hawksbeard (Crepis capillaris) 
          November 
          27: A Gaggle of Geese 
          November 
          28: Winterberry Holly (Ilex verticillata) 
          
        December 
          3:    Identifying Trees by their Buds 
          (FFPR 
          Program)
          December 
          10: Sunset over the Pond
          December 
          11: Available for Occupation; Nesting Boxes for Small Birds
          December 
          12: Meadow and Wetland at Lusitania Field 
          December 
          13: Coralberry (Symphoricarpos orbiculatus)
          December 
          18:  Twig Identification Contest at the Ranger Station
          December 
          20: River Birch (Betula nigra )
          December 
          21: Pond Monster?
          December 
          23: Two views of Blacks Nook 12 months apart
          December 
          25: Hackberry (Celtis occidentalis)
          December 
          30: Red Berries from two shrubs and a tree
        
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