PHOTO COURTESY OF GARRY KESSLER
Pine warbler (Setophaga pinus)
January 18, 2019, Page A8, A9
NATURE NOTES
By Annie Reid
Westborough Community Land Trust
Challenge yourself with the Nature Notes quiz
Ready for a long winter’s nap? Wait, not so fast! If you want to venture outside, check out this winter walk: see WCLT’s Try a Trail Close to Home: A Favorite Winter Walk.
PHOTO COURTESY OF EILEEN SAWYER
Queen Anne’s lace (Daucus carota)
PHOTO COURTESY OF GARRY KESSLER
Rose-breasted grosbeak (Pheucticus ludovicianus)
PHOTO COURTESY OF GARRY KESSLER
Cabbage white butterfly (Pieris rapae)
PHOTO COURTESY OF GARRY KESSLER
Little bluestem grass (Schizachyrium scoparium, Andropogon scoparius)
You can also perk up and look ahead to sights and sounds of nature in 2019 by taking our annual Nature Notes quiz to review the local nature featured in the past year.
Choose your answers from the drop down lists. Check your answers by clicking the "Show Answers" button. The answer page will contain links to the related 2018 “Nature Notes” columns so you can read last year’s columns, or any of more than 255 past columns. Just match the short descriptions below with the names in the alphabetical list that follows. Then check your answers in the Nature Notes Answer Key on page XX. The key also lists the related 2018 Nature Notes columns on the Westborough Community Land Trust (WCLT) web site (http://www.westboroughlandtrust.org/nn/nnindex.php), where you can read last year’s columns, or any of more than 255 past columns.