Collins Pond

We left Habitat Home and took the short quarter mile walk to Collins Pond, part of the Champaign County Forest Preserve District's Homer Lake Park.  The spring ephemerals are in more abundance and variety than we've seen on our property, as in the scene above showing lots of spring beauties and dutchman's breeches in the woods just above the Salt Fork River.  Several other photos of the flora and fauna are included below.

American toad (Bufo americanus)

another American toad (Bufo americanus)

Slider (Trachemys scripta)

White Trout-Lily (Erythronium albidum)

Dutchman's breeches (Dicentra cucullaria)

Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)

Left: Great waterleaf (Hyfrophyllum appendiculatum), basal variegated

Right: False hellebore (Veratrum viride)

easily uprooted small honeysuckle