The Neighbor's Place at Sunrise

In an on-going attempt to learn everything that lives on my plot of land here, I found five new things last year:

• Lake Sedge.  I've seen it many times before but didn't know what it was.
• Compton's Tortoiseshell butterfly.   I've seen Milbert's Tortoiseshell but not this one.  Checked w/ the Wisconsin butterfly site and they agreed on the species.  Then checked back through my pictures and I couldn't find it so it's the first time I noticed it.
• Lesser Yellowlegs.  Saw this bird at Gorgeous Gorge.  I have seen it at the old-cesspool-come-lake in town but not here so decided it counted.
• Juvenal's Duskywing butterfly.  Again checked w/ the Wisconsin butterfly site and looked through my pictures.  It was a new little skipper for me.
• Cecropia Moth.  Remember seeing two of these giant moth's coming out of their cocoons last summer.

It's fun to realize there are always new things to find here.  Pretty sure that no matter what size area a person lives in, they would never be able to find and identify everything that lives alongside them.