Biodiversity – Mt. Pleasant

Trees & Wildlife at the Howard County Conservancy’s Mt. Pleasant Farm

For more information on biodiversity at Mt. Pleasant you can visit the Maryland Biodiversity Program’s site: https://www.marylandbiodiversity.com/sites/hcc/

Birds at Mt. Pleasant
These birds have been sighted at Mt. Pleasant Farm by the Howard County Bird Club – View their Site Guide

Common Loon Great Blue Heron Green Heron Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Canada Goose Mallard Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper’s Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Merlin Wild Turkey Killdeer Upland Sandpiper Common Snipe Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Caspian Tern Rock Dove Mourning Dove Barred Owl Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird House Sparrow

Belted Kingfisher Red-headed Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Eastern Wood-Pewee Willow Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird White-eyed Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue Jay American Crow Fish Crow Purple Martin Tree Swallow Barn Swallow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Carolina Wren House Wren

Winter Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Hermit Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling American Pipit Cedar Waxwing Blue-winged Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Magnolia Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green warbler Prairie Warbler Palm Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Northern Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Yellow-breasted Chat Scarlet Tanager

Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Clay-colored Sparrow Field Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln’s Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Bobolink Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole Purple Finch House Finch American Goldfinch

Mammals at Mt. Pleasant

These mammals have been sighted at Mt. Pleasant Farm. American Beaver Eastern Cottontail Rabbit Eastern Chipmunk Eastern Gray Squirrel Gray Fox Groundhog Long-tailed Weasel Meadow Vole Mink Opossum Raccoon Red Fox Striped Skunk Short-tailed shrew White-footed Mouse White-Tailed Deer

Habitat exists on Mt. Pleasant Farm that would support these mammals, although they have not been sighted. Bats Black Bear Bobcat Eastern Coyote Northern Flying Squirrel Various Mole & Shrew Species

Fish at Mt. Pleasant

Blacknose Dace Longnose Dace Rosyside Dace Creek Chub White Sucker Mottled Sculpin

Insects at Mt. Pleasant

Azure, Summer Azure, Spring Beetle, Common Ground Beetle, False Bombardier Beetle, Patent Leather Beetle, Six-Spotted Tiger Carpenter Bee Cricket, Field Honey Bee, Western Monarch Stinkbug, Brown Marmorated Wheel bug

Reptiles and Amphibians at Mt. Pleasant

These have been sighted at Mt. Pleasant Farm American Bullfrog American Toad Black Rat Snake Common Ribbon Snake Dusky Salamander Eastern Box Turtle Eastern Garter Snake Grey Tree Frog Hognose Snake Northern Brown Snake Northern Red Salamander Northern Two-lined Salamander Ring Neck Snake Spotted Salamander Spring Peeper Wood Frog

Habitat exists on Mt. Pleasant Farm that would support these reptiles and amphibians, although they have not been sighted. Copperhead

Trees at Mt. Pleasant

American Beech American Chestnut American Elm American Persimmon American Sycamore Bald Cypress Box Elder Black Gum Black Locust Black Walnut Black Willow Cigar Tree (Catalpa) Eastern White Pine Flowering Dogwood Hawthorn Hickory

Mimosa Mockernut Hickory Northern White Cedar, or Arborvitae Red Bud Red Maple Red Mulberry Red Oak River Birch Sassafrass Silver Maple Slippery/Red Elm St. Lucie Cherry Staghorn Sumac Tree of Heaven Tulip Tree White Oak

Woody Plants at Mt. Pleasant

Climbing Bittersweet Highbush Blackberry Black Haw Virginia Creeper Riverbank/Frost Grape Summer/Pigeon Grape Japanese Honeysuckle

Poison Ivy Wild Black Raspberry Multiflora Rose Spicebush Virginia’s Bower Wineberry

Herbaceous Perennials and Wildflowers at Mt. Pleasant

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