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Prairie Flowers (partial)
Posted: under photography, Plantlife.
Tags: beauty, native plants, photography, prairie restoration May 29th, 2010
Near Meadow: Claspleaf Coneflower and Lemon Horsemint
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May 28
One Flower, Many Critters
Posted: under photography, Plantlife, Wildlife.
Tags: beauty, beetle, butterflies, photography, prairie restoration May 28th, 2010
The basketflower, Centaurea americana, looks much like a thistle at first…but the stem and leaves are not prickly at all. It’s a favorite of Black Swallowtail butterflies (and Giant Swallowtails, if there’s enough moisture for the flowers to last into summer) and many smaller butterflies. And also other insects.
Beetle flying toward Basketflower already occupied by Black Swallowtail
May 24
Amphibians
Posted: under Activities, Climate Change, Water, Wildlife.
Tags: Activities, amphibians, Animal behavior, beauty, documentation, observation, photography, wildlife management May 24th, 2010
Young Rana berlandieri with last of its tail showing.
May 20
Five Views of One Snake
Posted: under photography, Wildlife.
Tags: Animal behavior, beauty, observation, photography, reptile behavior, snake May 20th, 2010
If you’re one of the people who hate and fear all snakes, this might be a moment to remind yourself that this one is merely an image in the computer, as well as a small, slender, agile reptile that is harmless to us humans.
May 10
It’s All Wildlife…
Posted: under Activities, photography, Plantlife, Wildlife.
Tags: Activities, Animal behavior, beauty, butterflies, identification, insect, native plants, new species, photography, wildlife management May 10th, 2010
Because of time constraints (working on copy edits for new book) and weather, the brief walk on the land Saturday didn’t produce any usable bird pictures and I didn’t see any snakes or lizards, but I did see wildlife, large and small:
May 02
Copying Nature: Water Feature
Posted: under Activities, photography, Plantlife, Wildlife.
Tags: Activities, beauty, native plants, water resource management, wildlife management May 2nd, 2010
We’re already drying up, though much is still green and flowers are still blooming…the long-range forecast is for a “mild drought.” Last summer, in the worst of the drought, we reworked the backyard water feature (which had become overgrown with water irises, among other things.) We started it before we had the 80 acres, designing it for wildlife use from the beginning, with sunny, shady, quiet, and fast-moving sections of varying depths and shapes. In the extreme drought that ended last fall, it was crucial to our wildlife, because neither of the small guzzlers out on the 80 acres was big enough to sustain a good population of amphibians or odonates.