Wild Wild Woods

Eastern Bluebird mama delivers worms and insects to her brood in the nest box.  Bluebirds usually do not nest in the woods...

In the quiet woods, along the path, a fallen log has rotted and curved to become a fine trough.  Insects evidently hatch and grow there, and...

False Solomon's Seal Maianthemum racemosum grows in the shady wild wild woods.  Earlier this Spring, the rhizomes sent up zig-zag stems ...

The rabbit is so frustrated by the fence around the garden where lettuces and other attractive fare grow!  Today we saw her munching on milk...

Slender Beardtongue Penstemon gracilis is in bloom at the edge of the woods. Like other plants in the Penstemon family, each bloom has a fu...

 The Jack-in-the-Pulpit plants in the wild wild woods have finished flowering.  The 1/4" berries cluster and will stay on the stalk u...

The warm weather and frequent rains have been good for the green carpet in the woods.  Now that green carpet is beginning to bloom.  But it ...

My garden has been invaded by Common Milkweed Asclepias syriaca that used to grow closer to the woods.  I usually let some of the stems c...

This Spring, the pair of Northern Cardinals claiming the wild wild woods as their nesting territory came often to the tray feeder. The f...

One of the nestboxes we watch is used this Spring by House Wrens Troglodytes aedon .  Seven eggs hatched on June 8.  Today the cam recorded ...

One of the nestboxes we watch is used this Spring by House Wrens Troglodytes aedon .  She has been incubating these seven eggs for nearly ...

My knowledge of garden pests seems to have evaporated over winter . . . This 2-inch-long small green worm with a silvery stripe would usu...

The evergreen trees are showing this year's branch buds and new cones. As I wandered tree to tree, each species showed a d...

This dandelion seed head drips the remains of last night's rain drops.

False Solomon's Seal Maianthemum racemosum just showing the emerging flower cluster.

The maple trees are blooming, magnolia blossoms burgeoning . . .  but today, a hesitation while it snows in a last attempt at winter. ...

The maple trees are seeping sap and bursting buds.  The Robins are back for the nesting season.  I'm sure I've heard the sound ...

  While studying wildflowers among cactus in the Southwest, I spotted birds we probably won't see around here . . . . Gamb...

Also spotted at the wetlands preserve, these birds that winter in the south and migrate north in the western USA for nesting season. ...

Just returned from studying wildflowers in the Southwest USA.  At a wetland preserve area, we saw some of the birds that are winteri...

Bayberry Myrica pensylvanica On winter days like these . . .   cold and windy . . .   it may look like the trees ...

The Cooper's Hawk we often see in the wild wild woods was back again today.  First, we saw it sitting for several minutes in the sun on ...

The Pileated Woodpeckers come out of the wild wild woods occasionally to take suet at the feeder station.  Especially on a cold winter day,...