Trees & Wildlife at the Howard County Conservancy’s Mt. Pleasant Farm
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Birds at Mt. Pleasant
These birds have been sighted at Mt. Pleasant Farm by the Howard County Bird Club – View their Site Guide
Snow Goose | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | Brown Thrasher | Magnolia Warbler |
Canada Goose | Downy Woodpecker | Northern Mockingbird | Bay-breasted Warbler |
Tundra Swan | Hairy Woodpecker | European Starling | Blackburnian Warbler |
Wood Duck | Northern Flicker | Cedar Waxwing | Yellow Warbler |
Mallard | Pileated Woodpecker | House Sparrow | Chestnut-sided Warbler |
Northern Pintail | American Kestrel | American Pipit | Blackpoll Warbler |
Hooded Merganser | Merlin | Evening Grosbeak | Black-Throated Blue Warbler |
Northern Bobwhite | Peregrine Falcon | House Finch | Palm Warbler |
Rig-necked Pheasant | Olive-sided Flycatcher | Purple Finch | Yellow-rumped Warbler |
Wild Turkey | Eastern Wood-Pewee | Red Crossbill | Prairie Warbler |
Rock Pigeon | Acadian Flycatcher | Pine Siskin | Black-throated Green Warbler |
Mourning Dove | Alder Flycatcher | American Goldfinch | Canada Warbler |
Yellow-billed Cuckoo | Willow Flycatcher | Grasshopper Sparrow | Wilson's Warbler |
Black-billed Cuckoo | Least Flycatcher | Chipping Sparrow | Scarlet Tanager |
Common Nighthawk | Easter Phoebe | Clay-colored Sparrow | Northern Cardinal |
Chimney Swift | Great Crested Flycatcher | Field Sparrow | Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Eastern Kingbird | Fox Sparrow | Blue Grosbeak |
Black-bellied Plover | White-eyed Vireo | American Tree Sparrow | Indigo Bunting |
Killdeer | Yellow-throated Vireo | Dark-eyed Junco | Dickcissel |
Upland Sandpiper | Blue-headed Vireo | White-crowned Sparrow | Bald Eagle |
Wilson's Snipe | Philadelphia Vireo | White-throated Sparrow | Common Raven |
American Woodcock | Warbling Vireo | Vesper Sparrow | Black-capped Chickadee |
Spotted Sandpiper | Red-eyed Vireo | LeConte's Sparrow | Tundra Swan |
Solitary Sandpiper | Blue Jay | Nelson's Sparrow | Black-crowned Night Heron |
Bonaparte's Gull | American Crow | Savannah Sparrow | |
Laughing Gull | Fish Crow | Song Sparrow | |
Ring-billed Gull | Common Crow | Lincoln's Sparrow | |
Herring Gull | Horned Lark | Swamp Sparrow | |
Great Black-backed Gull | Bank Swallow | Eastern Towhee | |
Common Loon | Tree Swallow | Yellow-breasted Chat | |
Double-crested Cormorant | N. Rough-winged Swallow | Bobolink | |
American Bittern | Purple Martin | Eastern Meadowlark | |
Great Blue Heron | Barn Swallow | Orchard Oriole | |
Great Egret | Carolina Chickadee | Baltimore Oriole | |
Green Heron | Tufted Titmouse | Red-winged Blackbird | |
Glossy Ibis | Red-breasted Nuthatch | Brown-headed Cowbird | |
Black Vulture | White-breasted Nuthatch | Rusty Blackbird | |
Turkey Vulture | Brown Creeper | Common Grackle | |
Osprey | House Wren | Ovenbird | |
Northern Harrier | Winter Wren | Northern Waterthrush | |
Sharp-shinned Hawk | Sedge Wren | Golden-winged Warbler | |
Cooper's Hawk | Marsh Wren | Blue-winged Warbler | |
Red-shouldered Hawk | Carolina Wren | Black-and-white Warbler | |
Broad-winged Hawl | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | Tennessee Warbler | |
Red-tailed Hawk | Golden-crowned Kinglet | Orange-crowned Warbler | |
Rough-legged Hawk | Ruby-covered Kinglet | Nashville Warbler | |
Eastern Screech Owl | Eastern Bluebird | Connecticut Warbler | |
Barred Owl | Veery | Mourning Warbler | |
Great Horned Owl | Swainson's Thrush | Common Yellowthroat | |
Belted Kingfisher | Hermit Thrush | American Redstart | |
Red-headed Woodpecker | American Robin | Cape May Warbler | |
Red-bellied Woodpecker | Gray Catbird | Northern Parula | |
Mammals at Mt. Pleasant
American Beaver | Mink | Eastern Fox Squirrel |
Muskrat | Long-tailed Weasel | Eastern Chipmunk |
Virginia Opossum | Striped Skunk | White-footed deer Mouse |
Gray Fox | Common Raccoon | Meadow Shrew |
Red Fox | Eastern Cottontail | Northern Short-tailed Shrew |
Groundhog | Eastern Gray Squirrel | White-tailed Deer |
River Otter |
Mammal Not Spotted, But Possible
Various Bat Species |
Black Bear |
Bobcat |
Eastern Coyote |
Northern Flying Squirrel |
Various Mole and Shrew Species |
Reptiles at Mt. Pleasant
Eastern Box Turtle | Eastern Black Ratsnake | Northern Black Racer |
Snapping Turtle | Eastern Milksnake | Northern Brown Snake |
Spotted Turtle | Eastern Ribbonsnake | Queensnake |
Common Gatersnake | Hognose Snake | Ring-necked Snake |
Five-lined Skink |
Amphibians at Mt. Pleasant
American Toad | Spring Peeper | Northern Dusky Salamander |
Gray Tree Frog | Southern Leopard Frog | Northern Two-lined Salamander |
Green Frog | Wood Frog | Red Salamander |
Pickerel Frog | American Bullfrog | Spotted Salamander |
Fish at Mt. Pleasant
Blacknose Dace |
Longnose Dace |
Rosyside Dace |
Creek Chub |
Largemouth Bass |
Mottled Sculpin |
White Sucker |
Insects at Mt. Pleasant
Bee Species
Carlin's Andrena | Doubled Ceratina | Gotham Bee |
Spring Beauty Andrena | Nimble Ceratina | Wool Carder Bee |
Honey Bee | Two-spotted Long-horned Bee | Porter's Cuckoo-leaf-cutter |
Black-and-Gold Bumble Bee | Thistle Long-horned Bee | Say's Cuckoo-leaf-cutter |
Two-spotted Bumble Bee | Hibiscus Bee | Cuckoo-leaf-cutter Bee |
Golden Northern Bumble Bee | Northern Carpenter Bee | Common Little Leaf-cutter Bee |
Brown-belted Bumble Bee | Pure Green Augochlora | Flat-tailed Leaf-cutter Bee |
Common Eastern Bumble Bee | Sweat Bee | Silver-tail Petal-cutter Bee |
Perplexing Bumble Bee | Bruner's Dialictus | Alfalfa Leaf-cutter Bee |
Spurred Ceratina | Cresson's Dialictus | Bufflehead Mason Bee |
Hornfaced Bee |
Beetle Species
Emerald Ash Borer | Mottled Tortoise Beetle | Spotted Lady Beetle |
Margined Leatherwing | Sotted Cucumber Beetle | Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle |
Bronzed Tiger Beetle | Western Corn Rootworm | Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetle |
Punctured Tiger Beetle | Pigweed Flea Beetle | Golden Net-winged Beetle |
Locust Borer | Swamp Milkweed Leaf Beetle | Patent Leather Beetle |
Red Milkweed Beetle | False Potato Beetle | Oriental Beetle |
Striped Cucumber Beetle | Goldenrod Leaf Miner | Masked Chafer Beetle |
Green Tortoise Beetle | Clavate Tortoise Beetle | Japanese Beetle |
Dogbane Beetle | Twice-stabbed Lady Beetle | Round-necked Sexton Beetle |
Butterfly Species
These butterflies have been sighted at Mt. Pleasant Farm by the Howard County Bird Club. View their Site Guide
Swallowtail Butterflies: | Brush-footed Butterflies: | Skipper Butterflies: |
Pipevine Swallowtails | American Snout | Silver-spotted Skipper |
Black Swallowtails | Variegated Fritillary | Long-tailed Skipper |
Spicebush Swallowtail | Great Spangled Fritillary | Northern Cloudywing |
Giant Swallowtail | Meadow Fritillary | Hayhurst's Scallopwing |
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | Silvery Checkerspot | Juvenal's Duskywing |
Zebra Swallowtail | Pearl Crescent | Horace's Duskywing |
Whites and Sulphur Butterflies: | Question Mark | Wild Indigo Duskywing |
Cabbage White | Eastern Comma | Common Checkered-Skip |
Falcate Orangetip | Mourning Cloak | Common Sootywing |
Clouded Sulphur | American Lady | Swarthy Skipper |
Orange Sulphur | Painted Lady | Clouded Skipper |
Cloudless Sulphur | Red Admiral | Least Skipper |
Sleepy Orange | Common Buckeye | Fiery Skipper |
Red-spotted Purple | Peck's Skipper | |
Gossamer- Winger Butterflies: | Viceroy | Tawny-edged Skipper |
Harvester | Hackberry Emperor | Crossline Skipper |
American Copper | Northern Pearly Eye | Southern Broken-dash |
Coral Hairstreak | Little Wood Satyr | Northern Broken-dash |
Banded Hairstreak | Common Wood Nymph | Little Glassywing |
Juniper Hairstreak | Monarch | Sachem |
White M Hairstreak | Tawny Emperor | Hobomok Skipper |
Gray Hairstreak | Zabulon Skipper | |
Red-banded Hairstreak | Broad-winged Skipper | |
Eastern Tailed-blue | Dun Skipper | |
Summer Azure | Ocola Skipper |
Moth Species
Clemen's Grass Tubeworm Moth | Painted Lichen Moth | Skiff Moth | Red-humped Oakworm Moth |
Angel Moth | Common Idia Moth | Spotted Apatelodes Moth | Diamondback Moth |
Shy Cosmet Moth | Common Fungus Moth | Scalloped Sack-bearer Moth | Evergreen Bagworm Moth |
Sooty-winged Chalcoela Moth | Texas Mocis Moth | Afflicted Dagger Moth | Morning-glory Plume Moth |
Double-banded Grass-veneer Moth | White-marked Tussock Moth | American Dagger Moth | Lesser Cornstalk Borer Moth |
Eastern Grass-veneer Moth | White Edge Moth | Birch Dagger Moth | Mediterranean Flour Moth |
Pasture Grass-veneer Moth | Dark-spotted Palthis Moth | Green Marvel Moth | Diamorphic Macalla Moth |
Grape Leaffolder Moth | Brown Panopoda Moth | Speared Dagger Moth | Broad-banded Eulogica Moth |
Julia's Dicymolomia Moth | Maple Looper Moth | Yellow-haired Dagger Moth | Clover Hayworm Moth |
Waterlily leafcutter Moth | Black-banded Owlet Moth | Southern Oak Moth | Sycamore Webworm Moth |
Spotted Peppergrass Moth | Isabelle Tiger Moth | Greater Oak Dagger Moth | Locust Leafroller Moth |
Changeable Grass-veneer Moth | Speckled Renia Moth | Retarded Dagger Moth | Orange-tipped Oakworm Moth |
Bold-feathered Grass Moth | Spotted Grass Moth | Ipsilon Dart Moth | Io Moth |
Elegant Grass-veneer Moth | Deadwood Borer | Green Cutworm Moth | Tulip-tree Silkworm |
Lucerne Moth | Six-spotted Gray Moth | Many-dotted Appleworm Moth | Regal Moth |
Splendid Palpita Moth | Virginian Tiger Moth | Asteroid Moth | Rosy Maple Moth |
Bluegrass Webworm Moth | Florida Tetanolita Moth | Brown-hooded Owlet Moth | Imperial Moth |
Titan Peale's Pyralid Moth | Lunate Zale Moth | Grateful Midget Moth | Cecropia Moth |
Bicolored Pyrausta Moth | Variable Zanclognatha Moth | Variegated Midget Moth | Lesser Peachtree Borer Moth |
Variable Reddish Pyrausta Moth | Lettered Zanclognatha Moth | Scalloped Sallow Moth | Riley's Clearwing Moth |
Double-striped Scoparia Moth | Grayish Zanclognatha Moth | Beautiful Wood-nymph Moth | Dogwood Borer Moth |
Celery Leaftier Moth | Large Paectes Moth | Harris's Three-spot Moth | Elm Sphinx |
Genista Broom Moth | Black-smudged Chionodes Moth | Corn Earworm Moth | Catalpa Sphinx |
Snowy Urola Moth | Fall Cankerworm Moth | Lupatus Straw Moth | Virginia Creeper Sphinx |
Schlaeger's Fruitworm Moth | Oak Besma Moth | Explicit Arches Moth | Snowberry Clearwing |
Oak Leaftier Moth | Faint-spotted Angle Moth | Unarmed Wainscot Moth | Hummingbird Clearwing |
Arched Hooktip Moth | Tulip-tree Beauty Moth | Small Mossy Lithacodia Moth | Carolina Sphinx |
Rose Hooktip Moth | Beggar Moth | Black-bordered Lemon Moth | Small-eyed Sphinx |
Planthopper Parasite Moth | Grapevine Looper Moth | Flame-shouldered Dart Moth | Spotted Thyris Moth |
False Underwing Moth | Common Eupithecia Moth | Hebrew Moth | Apple Trumpet Leaf Miner |
Harnessed Tiger Moth | Confused Eusarca Moth | Small Brown Quaker Moth | Robinson's Acleris Moth |
Clover Looper Moth | Chickweed Geometer Moth | Ragweed Flower Moth | Red-banded Leafroller Moth |
Forage Looper Moth | Common Angle Moth | Yellow-striped Armyworm Moth | Parallel-banded Leafroller Moth |
Ilia Underwing Moth | Canadian Melanolophia Moth | Common Sragueia Moth | Oblique-banded Leafroller Moth |
Bride Underwing Moth | Juniper Geometer Moth | Greater Black-letter Dart Moth | Garden Tortrix Moth |
Black Bit Moth | Common Tan Wave Moth | Small Baileya Moth | The Batman Moth |
Yellow-collared Scape Moth | Friendly Probole Moth | Black-spotted Prominent Moth | Locust Twig Borer Moth |
Delicate Cycnia Moth | Large Lace-bordered Moth | Walnut Caterpillar Moth | Brighton's Epiblema Moth |
Salt Marsh Moth | Wavy-lined Emerald Moth | Yellow-necked Caterpillar Moth | Ragweed Borer Moth |
Milkweed Tussock Moth | False Crocus Geometer Moth | White Furcula Moth | Reddish Eucosma Moth |
Locust Underwing Moth | Saddleback Caterpillar Moth | Wavy-lined Heterocampa Moth | Sculptured Moth |
Virgin Tiger Moth | Purple-crested Slug Moth | Saddled Prominent Moth | Labyrinth Moth |
Sycamore Tussock Moth | Spiny Oak-slug Moth | Double-lined Prominent Moth | Black-shaded Platynota Moth |
Banded Tussock Moth | Spun Glass Slug Moth | White-dotted Prominent Moth | Tufted Apple Budmoth |
Baltimore Bomolocha Moth | Yellow-shouldered Slug Moth | Angulose Prominent Moth | Sparganothis Fruitworm Moth |
Gray-edged Bomolocha Moth | Nason's Slug Moth | Red-humped Caterpillar Moth | Ailanthus Webworm Moth |
Giant Leopard Moth | Smaller Parasa Moth | Black-blotched Schizura Moth | Clemen's False Skeletonizer Moth |
Fall Webworm Moth | Monkey Slug Moth | Unicorn Caterpillar Moth | Grapeleaf Skeletonizer Moth |
Damselfly Species
Ebony Jewelwing | Stream Bluet |
Variable Dancer | Citrine Forktail |
Azure Bluet | Fragile Forktail |
Double-striped Bluet | Eastern Forktail |
Familiar Bluet | Slender Spreadwing |
Dragonfly Species
Slender Spreadwing | Common Green Darner | Painted Skimmer |
Azure Bluet | Fawn Darner | Willow Skimmer |
Double-striped Bluet | Swamp Darner | Wandering Glider |
Familiar Bluet | Common Sanddragon | Spot-winged Glider |
Stream Bluet | Brown Spiketail | Eastern Glider Amberwing |
Citrine Forktail | Tiger Spiketail | Common Whitetail |
Fragile Forktail | Twin-spotted Spiketail | Autumn Meadowhawk |
Eastern Forktail | Halloween Spiketail | Black Saddlebags |
Violet (Variable) Dancer | Slaty Skimmer |
Fungi at Mt. Pleasant
Meadow Mushroom | Velvet Shank | Cinnabar Red Polypore |
Scaly Wood Mushroom | Oyster Mushroom | Turkey Tail |
Purple-spored Puffball | Fawn Mushroom | Violet Tooth |
Giant Puffball | Glistening Inkcap | Crown-tipped Coral |
Streaked Bird's Nest | Scaly Ink Cap | Crowded Parchment |
Gemmed Puffball | Tree Ear | Cherry Knot Gall |
Parasol Mushroom | Common Earthball | Walter's Earth Tongue |
Fly Amanita | White Green-algae Coral | Black Jelly Drops |
Crimped Gill | Stinky Squid | Yellow Fairy Cups |
Shaggy Mane | Mossy Maple Polypore | Stalked Hairy Fairy Cup |
Silver Leaf Fungus | Sulfur Shelf | Tar Spot of Maple |
Powder-scale Pholiota | Hairy Panus | Cedar Apple Rust |
Fused Marasmius | Milk-white Toothed Polypore | Beech Hypoxylon |
Broad Gill | Blackfoot Polypore | Alder Tongues |
Black-stalked Marasmius | Gilled Bracket | Witches Butter |
Orange Mycena | Hexagonal-pored Polypore | |
Walnut Mycena | Flecked-flesh Polypore | |
Luminescent Panelius | Cracked Cap Polypore |
Lichen at Mt. Pleasant
Crustose Lichens: | Foliose Lichens: |
Common Button Lichen | Candleflame Lichen |
Gray-rimmed Lichen | Common Greenshield Lichen |
Red Firedot Lichen | Wrinkled Loop Lichen |
Powdery Goldspeck Lichen | Powdery Axil-bristle Lichen |
Common Goldspeck Lichen | Southern Powdered Ruffle Lichen |
Brown-eyed Rim Lichen | Salted Ruffle Lichen |
Rock Disk Lichen | Rough Speckled Shield Lichen |
Fluffy Disk Lichen | Meally Rosette Lichen |
Stilling's Disk Lichen | Dragon Cladonia Lichen |
Speckled Blister Lichen | |
Black Stone Lichen | |
Common Powderhorn Lichen | |
Egg-yolk Lichen |
Plants at Mt. Pleasant
Native Tree Species
Box Elder | Flowering Dogwood | White Pine |
Red Maple | Hawthorn | American Sycamore |
Silver Maple | Common Persimmon | Black Cherry |
Sugar Maple | American Beech | Choke Cherry |
Serviceberry | Black Locust | White Oak |
Paw Paw | American Holly | Black Oak |
River Birch | Black Walnut | Chestnut Oak |
American Hornbeam | Eastern Red Cedar | Willow Oak |
Mockernut Hickory | Sweet Gum | Red Oak |
Pignut Hickory | Tulip Poplar | Black Willow |
Common Hackberry | Sweetbay Magnolia | Sassafras |
Eastern Redbud | Red Mulberry | Bald Cypress |
White Fringetree | Black Gum | Slippery Elm |
Silky Dogwood | Ironwood | American Elm |
Speckled Alder | Swamp Cottonwood |
Native Shrub Species
Devil's Walking Stick | Hydrangea | Smooth Sumac |
American Beautyberry | St. John's Wart | Staghorn Sumac |
New Jersey Tea | Inkberry | Pasture Rose |
Buttonbush | Winterberry | Allegany Blackberry |
Sweet Pepperbush | Virginia Sweetspire | Black Raspberry |
Red Twig Dogwood | Spicebush | Elderberry |
American Hazelnut | Black Chockberry | Coral Berry |
Witch Hazel | Ninebark | Blackhaw |
Gray Dogwood | Box Elder |
Native Vines Species
Poison Ivy | Virginia Creeper |
American Bittersweet | Riverbank Grape |
Coral Honeysuckle | Summer Grape |
Greenbriar | Virgin's Bower |
Fern Species
Ladyfern |
Eastern Hayscented Fern |
Christmas Fern |
Ostrich Fern |
Sensitive Fern |
New York Fern |
Cutleaf Grapefern |
Herbaceous Perennials and Wildflowers
Agrimony, Small-flowered Aster, Heath Aster, Purple-stemmed Avens, White Beggar-ticks, Swamp Bindweed, Hedge Black-eyed Susan Bloodroot Blue Curls Bluebells, Virginia Boneset Buckwheat, Climbing False Burdock, Common Buttercup, Bulbous Buttercup, Kidneyleaf Campion, White Chickweed, Common Chickweed, Star Chicory Clearweed Cleavers Clover, Rabbit-foot Clover, Red Clover, White Clover, Black Coneflower, Green headed/Tall |
Cress, Hairy Bitter Cress, Mouse-ear Cress, Winter Daisy, Oxeye Dayflower, Asiatic Dock, Bitter/Broad Dodder, Common Evening-primrose, Common Everlasting, Sweet Fleabane, Daisy Galinsoga Garlic, Field Gill-over-the-ground Goldenrod, Canada Goldenrod, Flat-topped Goldenrod, Rough-stemmed Ground Cherry, Smooth Heal-all Horse-nettle Horseweed Indian Hemp Indian Tobacco Jack-in-the-pulpit Jimsonweed Joe-Pye Weed, Hollow Knapweed, Brown |
Knapweed, Spotted Knotweed, Virginia Lady’s Thumb Lamb’s Quarter Lilies, Fawn Lobelia, Great May-apple Mercury, Three-seeded Milkweed, Common Milkweed, Swamp Mugwort, Common Mullein, Moth Mustard, Garlic Nightshade, Bittersweet Nightshade, Black/Common Pennycress, Field Peppergrass, Field Peppergrass, Wild Peppermint Perilla Periwinkle, Lesser Plantain, Broadleaved/Common Plantain, English Pokeweed Queen Anne’s Lace |
Ragweed, Common Ragweed, Great Rue-anemone Skunk Cabbage, Eastern Snakeroot, Clustered Solomon’s Seal, False Spring Beauty Spurge, Flowering Strawberry, Indian Tearthumb, Arrow-leaved Tearthumb, Halbard-leaved Tearthumb, Perfoliata Thistle, Bull Thistle, Canada Tich-trefoil, Hoary Toothwort, Slender Touch-me-not, Spotted Trout Lily Velvetleaf Vervain, White Violet, Common Blue Violet, Pale Watercress Water-pepper, Mild Wood-sorrel, Yellow Yarrow |