Babies!

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The air traffic is heavy. Where? Outside at our backyard nest box.

The parents are busy feeding the first of season babies! Yeah, the air traffic control seems to be working fine. 🙂
The thalloid liverwort have sent up their sporophytes!
Fringed Puccoon (Lithospermum incisum) has started blooming! From the Lady Bird Johnson Wild Flower center: Soak seeds in hot (135 degrees) water overnight, and plant immediately. Germination is unreliable. Propagation may be accomplished from 2-inch root cuttings. Treat cuttings with hormones and plant in fall. Mature plants may be divided.
Seed Collection: Late in summer, the plant produces smaller, almost invisible flowers which fertilize themselves without opening. It is from these late, hard-to-see flowers not the showy yellow ones that produce fertile seed. Inside each of four oblong nutlets is a bony, white seed.
I have always called this one Johnny Jump-up (Viola bicolor). They are easily missed unless you find a big crowded patch. They go by other names such as Field Pansy or Wild Pansy. However, I prefer the Johnny Jump-up for a name.

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  2. Such beautiful babies! And so soon in the year!
    That’s alot of work to plant fringed puccoon – glad they figured out on their own how to take care of business.

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