Down to the Wire--Day 26 Update--1000 Species Challenge

Only one new bird for the month--a Blue-headed Vireo that popped out in the trees while I was visiting with friends on my patio this morning.  At Amwell Lake I managed to find a Puffball as well as my first Odonates--actually the first dragonflies and damselfly that I've ever tried to ID, so hope I got them right :-)

Then I stopped by the Rutgers Landscape & Nursery on Hwy 202 south of Flemington and picked up over 80 additional plant species, and got some more ideas for landscaping our yard.

Northern Bluet, Amwell Lake, Hunterdon, NJ

Autumn Meadowhawk, Amwell Lake, Hunterdon, NJ

I only have a few more days in the month, and new species are harder to get all the time.  Looks like I need to plan on more than just the Rosemont College biodiversity class field trip on Saturday to put me over the top!

Total Cumulative Species: 906+

New Species

Blue-headed Vireo	Vireo solitarius
Puffball	Bovista pila
Autumn Meadowhawk	Sympetrum vicinum
Eastern Pondhawk	Erythemis simplicicollis
European Honey Bee	Apis mellifera
Northern Bluet	Enallagma annexum
Adam's Needle	Yucca filamentosa
American Holly	Ilex opaca
American Sweetgum	Liquidambar styraciflua
American Willow	Salix discolor
Arkansas Blue Star	Amsonia hubrichtii
Autumn Joy	Hylotelephium telephium
Black Tupelo	Nyssa sylvatica
Blue Pacific Juniper	Juniperus conforta
Butterfly Blue	Scabiosa columbaria
Carpathian harebell	Campanula carpatica
Cheddar Pink	Dianthus gratianopolitanus
Cinnamon Fern	Osmundastrum cinnamomeum
Common Holly	Ilex aquifolium
Cotoneaster Cranberry	Cotoneaster apiculatus
Crape Myrtle	Lagerstroemia indica
Curve-leaf Yucca	Yucca gloriosa
Darley Heath	Erica × darleyensis
Dense Blazing Star	Liatris spicata
Deutzia Hydrangea	Deutzia gracilis
European Hornbeam	Carpinus betulus
Flowering Dogwood	Cornus florida
Fountain Grass	Pennisetum alopecuroides
Foxglove Beard Tongue	Penstemon digitalis
Fraser's Photinia	Photinia x fraseri
Garden Catmint	Nepeta racemosa
Gold Flame Honeysuckle	Lonicera x heckrotti
Green Osier Dogwood	Cornus alternifolia
Honey Locust	Gleditsia triacanthos
Hosta	Hosta sieboldiana
Hydrangea	Hydrangea petiola
Hydrangea anomala	Hydrangea anomala
Japanese Anemone	Anemone tomentosa
Japanese Flowering Crabapple	Malus floribunda
Japanese Forest Grass	Hakonechloa macra
Japanese Lilac	Syringa reticulata
Japanese Snowball	Viburnum plicatum
Japanese Stewartia	Stewartia pseudocamellia
Japanese Stonecrop	Sedum makinoi
Japanese Wisteria	Wisteria floribunda
Korean Sun Pear	Pyrus fauriei
Large-flowered Tickseed	Coreopsis grandiflora
Maiden Grass	Miscanthus sinensis
Mediteranean Fan Palm	Chamaerops humiilis
Mexican Evening Primrose	Oenothera berlandieri
Montauk Daisy	Nipponanthemum nipponicum
Mountain Cornflower	Centaurea montana
Nandina	Nandina domestica
Pampas Grass	Saccharum ravennae
Persian Ironwood	Parrotia persica
Pin Oak	Quercus palustris
Prague Viburnum	Viburnam x praganse
Purple Willow	Salix purpurea
Red Carpet	Sedum spurium
Red Horse Chestnut	Aesculus x carnea
Redvein Enkianthus	Enkianthus campanulatus
Rose Mallow	Hibiscus moscheutos
Rosy Tickseed	Coreopsis rosea
Russian Sage	Perovskia atriplicifolia
Seaside Goldenrod	Solidago sempervivens
Short's Goldenrod	Solidago shortii
Showy Stonecrop	Hylotelephium spectabile
Siberian Bugloss	Brunnera macrophylla
Siberian Iris	Iris siberica
Silver Lime	Tilia tomentosa
Sneezeweed	Helenium x coppelia
Snow-in-Summer	Cerastium tormentorum
Solomon's Seal	Polygonatum multiflorum
South American Elephant Grass	Miscanthus sinensis
Spindle	Euonymus fortunei
Sugar Maple	Acer saccharum
Sullivant's Coneflower	Rudbeckia speciosa
Swamp White Oak	Quercus bicolor
Tropical Mandevilla	Mandevilla sp.
Violet	Viola etain
Virginia Knotweed	Persicaria virginiana
Weeping Willow	Salix babylonica
Weigela Florida	Weigela florida
White Snakeroot	Ageratina altissima
Windmill Palm	Trachycarpus fortunei
Winterberry	Ilex verticillata
Wood Oats	Chasmanthium latifolium