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Emerald Necklace August 2021 | Vol VIDEO CLIPS FEATURE! Click this icon appearing in articles to view videos on the subject. ® AUGUST 2021 Reconnected New lakefront connections now open Take Flight at the Zoo Eagle Zip Adventure now open Summer Microadventures Five great day trips to take this month Eagle Zip Adventure at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo A LETTER FROM BRIAN ZIMMERMAN CONTENTS New Ways to Connect with Nature Happy August! This summer has been packed with adventure. 2 Letter from Brian & We’ve opened several new trails including the Red Line Greenway, Naturalist-Led Programs Whiskey Island Trail, Wendy Park Bridge and the Lake Erie Water Trail, The Noshery at Huntington Reservation, Brighton Park at 3 Hellbenders Brookside Reservation, The Lindsey Family Play Space at Edgewater Park and the Eagle Zip Adventure at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo! 4 Naturalist’s Almanac & While new trails are improving access and opportunities to Peering at the Perseids experience our Emerald Necklace, we’re also adding new ways for people to connect with nature once they arrive. 5 Lady Bugs or Lady Beetles & Wolf Spiders August is abuzz with opportunities to get outdoors and enjoy the final weeks of summer. Sleep outdoors under the stars at the Squire’s Castle Family Campout in North 6 Capital Improvement Chagrin or enjoy the family-friendly Backyard Nature Bash at West Creek. Wendy Park & Whiskey Island This month’s Emerald Necklace outlines all of the new adventures you can experience within Cleveland Metroparks. It’s also a field guide for the natural phenomena you can 7 Zoo News witness during your next visit including birds, insects, reptiles, wildflowers and even the Perseid meteor shower. 8 Nature Shop & If you haven’t yet made it out to this year’s Asian Lantern Festival, there’s only a few Upcoming Eventss weeks left to do so! Through our partnership with Meijer, this year’s festival is an all- new show, with over 1,000 unique large-scale lanterns, live performances on the Fifth 9 Golf & Swimming Third Bank Stage and culturally-inspired cuisine. Finally, as you head out to explore our more than 24,000 acres, take advantage of our 10 Top 5 Microadventuress free mobile app. We continue to roll out new features to make exploration easier than ever. And now you can access golf tee time bookings using the app! 11 Vibrant Vines & I’ll see you out there! Puffball Mushrooms 12 Directory & Map Brian Zimmerman Click or touch a section above to access Cleveland Metroparks CEO it directly. Click on the home button (example shown here) at the top corner of each page to return here. VIDEO FEATURE! Click this icon appearing in articles to view videos on the subject. Thursdays – Sundays Through Sunday, September 5 6:30 – 10:30 p.m. • New lantern displays Buy your tickets in advance • Live performances and save! • Authentic cuisine FutureForWildlife.org/lanterns 2 Emerald Necklace August 2021 | Vol. 70 #8 FEATURE ARTICLE Hellbenders, Snot Otters or Allegheny Alligators idden under large rocks in clean, While hellbenders cannot be found within cool, fast-moving rivers and streams Cleveland Metroparks, they are in Ohio, Hin the eastern United States lurks our with the largest population found in Little largest amphibian. Known by many aliases Beaver Creek in Columbiana County. – snot otter, Allegheny alligator, grampus, lasagna lizard – our largest salamander, Sizable Salamanders Cryptobranchus alleganiensis, is perhaps Growing up to two feet in length and known best by its most common name: weighing up to five and a half pounds, the skin, hellbenders are able to produce and the hellbender. This reclusive relative of hellbender is the third largest salamander secrete a slime through their skin coating our more commonly seen salamanders in the world, behind only its cousins the their entire body. This slime makes the (redback, spotted, two-lined, etc.) requires Chinese giant salamander (which can grow hellbender difficult to grasp, and has a a very specific habitat to survive. Fully to almost six feet in length and weigh foul taste, allowing the hellbender to aquatic, it is sensitive to pollution and low over 60 pounds) and the Japanese giant escape potential predation. oxygen conditions, and thus is only found salamander (which can grow to five feet in in clean, cool, and fast-moving waters, with length and weigh over 50 pounds). Being Helping Hellbenders very little sedimentation. They can be found dorsoventrally flattened (“squished” from Though the range of the hellbender from New York to Georgia, mostly along the the top and bottom), hellbenders squirm expands across much of the Eastern Appalachian Mountain range, but can be their stout, soft bodies under large rocks to United States, increased urbanization has found as far west as Oklahoma. hide from predators. A nocturnal species, led to habitat degradation and has caused hellbenders emerge from underneath their a sharp decline in hellbender populations. rocks to hunt crayfish, other invertebrates, Thankfully, there are multiple organi- and small fish. Mottled browns and tans, zations around the country, and a few with wavy folds of skin along its sides here in Ohio that are working to help. allow it to camouflage against the rocky The Ohio Hellbender Partnership is a substrates of streams and rivers. The wavy collection of organizations (the U.S. Fish folds of skin on the hellbender give it a and Wildlife Service, Ohio Division of greater surface area, allowing for more Wildlife, the Ohio EPA, multiple colleges Underwater view of hellbender oxygen exchange with the surrounding and universities, multiple zoos and more), water. Besides breathing through their that are working to conserve land, and raise and reintroduce hellbenders into streams. You too can help the hellbender and the overall quality of our streams by reducing the amount of stormwater coming from your property by implementing stormwater management features like rain barrels, rain gardens and bioswales. All of these features can be observed outdoors at the Watershed Stewardship Center in Cleveland Metroparks West Creek Reservation. Matt Knittel, Naturalist Hellbender – the largest salamander in the U.S. Watershed Stewardship Center clevelandmetroparks.com 3 NATURALIST’S ALMANAC August is alive with anticipation eep summer has arrived as August Bird Migration is Underway begins the turning point towards Late summer marks the end of breeding Dfall. Daylight shortens, insti- season for most birds, except for cedar gating flocks of migrating blackbirds to waxwings and American goldfinches, which congregate in large numbers. Bats begin are hard at work preparing nests and raising to disperse from maternity colonies and Common buckeye young in the heat of the year. The dawn chorus the first southerly migration of shore- of songbirds such as warblers, flycatchers, birds, warblers and orioles begins. Insect tanagers and grosbeaks has quieted, except diversity explodes with butterflies, moths, for red-eyed vireos singing high in the canopy dragonflies and damselflies leading the of lush forests. While it seems early, fall colorful parade in field and forest. August migration is already underway, as blackbird evenings provide a peek at the Perseid Black saddlebag flocks gather in fields and shorebirds return to meteor shower, particularly during the first wetlands and marshes. two weeks of the month. The opportunity to witness shooting stars while listening to Pollinating & Serenading Insects a concert of katydids, crickets and grass- The fields and wetlands are alive with the hoppers is a show not to be missed. American buzzing and fluttering of fantastic pollinating insects: bees and butterflies. Skimmers, Eastern milksnake goldfinch darners, bluets, spreadwings, baskettails, saddlebags and other unique odonates are busy foraging on the wing and laying eggs in ponds and lakes. Common buckeyes, one of the most brilliant of butterflies, can be found on sunny paths through meadows. Cicadas, Peering at the Perseids grasshoppers, crickets and katydids fill the afternoons, evenings and starlit nights with Summer is an amazing time to get out at night, when the loud serenades. temperatures are cooler, and the sky is filled with stars. Mid-August nights are especially magical because of the annual Perseid meteor Tall Towering Wildflowers shower, which is undoubtedly the best meteor shower of the year. The Perseid meteor is named after Perseus, the constellation and Greek The rich soil nutrients found in floodplain mythological hero. Meteors have been seen around this northern forests allow some of the tallest wildflowers constellation for over 2,000 years. in Cleveland Metroparks to thrive. Yellows of wingstem, green-headed coneflower and cup The swift and vivid meteors frequently leave long lines of light and plant can grow over ten feet tall, which are color behind them as they pass through Earth’s atmosphere. The highlighted with the lavenders of the shorter Perseids are one of the most productive meteor showers with 50- wild bergamot and wood sage. These insect- 100 meteors seen per hour. This summer light show is also known pollinated plants are great places to search for its fireballs, which are made of larger particles and create larger for predators, such as assassin bugs and crab explosions of light and color that last longer than an average meteor. spiders waiting patiently for their next meal. Where are the best places to view this spectacle? Dark skies with little light are not a necessity, but highly encouraged. South Chagrin, Warm Up To Reptiles North Chagrin, Brecksville, Bradley Woods, Hinckley and Huntington On cool mornings, native non-venomous reservations are wonderful locations to view the Perseids and their snakes can be seen on rock and log piles fireballs. Cleveland Metroparks reservations are open daily until 11 basking in the sun’s warming rays. There are p.m. and nighttime hikes and meteor watching is encouraged. The no harmful snakes in Cleveland Metroparks.
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