This stop is near one of the new bridges which crosses the near permanent spillway where the water flows over the rocks at this end of the Pond. Here, from time to time, blood worms, the larval form of midges, can be found. The old bridge was often nearly grown over at one corner by Poison Ivy, so be careful, it may have re-established itself here.
Near this stop is a good specimen of a Hickory Tree, some Rhododendron and, at the bridge, a type of cherry which is clearly home to a fungus which forms hard clumps of black growth on its limbs. From here, one can look back at the Hemlock tree, now heavily infected with wooly adelgids.
