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Comments welcome. Thank you, Mary
Yucca seed pod all empty. Milkweed (Asclepias) seed pod and a few seeds left. Spring Beauty, makes me think spring will be here soon: after we get snow Sunday(?) …LOL Greenbriar leaf. The grass looks like it is trying to tie it down. So is this Stalked Lattice Stinkhorn (Lysurus periphragmoides) a bit like the…
Poor girl hit our sliding door. Jim got the first photo. This is a female Yellow-shafted Northern Flicker. You can see that she does not have a mustache like the males. The mustache is black (for a yellow-shafted) that starts at the base of the beak and runs under the cheek. She has the yellow-shafts…
I kinda of got sided tracked with various things. One was a real cool moss. I will share it tomorrow. A white-wing dove feather that I found along the fence. More of the feathers. It is interesting because this is the same place that I found the Mourning Dove feathers a few weeks back. The…
Here are the rest of the sights from yesterday’s adventure. These Devil’s Toenail fossils were arranged by nature. It looks like something I would do. Nature and I must think alike. Ha Ha! This was a nice mound of a squamulose lichen on the limestone hillside. Gracies stands above the grotto with running water. This…
It is always a great day when I get to go to the grasslands. And today was no exception with the perfect weather! This plant was my goal to see today! It is called Big-root Cymopterus (Vesper macrorhizus or the old name Cymopterus macrorhizus). Only one was found blooming today and it was pretty small….
Had some nice birds today. No this is not a bird, but it is evidence that the Loggerhead Shrike was hunting in the area late yesterday or early this morning. I saw the shrike yesterday, but there were no field crickets cached then. Today there was. Must have been a cricket day for the shrike….
Don’t get me wrong, I loved the rain we got, but it is always nice to have the sunshine back. This is just the shell of a snail. The snail can not detach itself from the shell. In the winter, snails will go under the leaf litter or other nooks and crannies and seal up…
What a surprise this morning to find a dusting of snow at our house. Especially because 33 degrees was our low. Folks in Decatur and to the west got more. The little shelf fungus caught some snow. Closeup of the shelf fungus. As you can see it is more like ice crystals. It was lightly…
The Spring Beauty (Claytonia virginica) was closed for business today. I don’t blame it with temp being near 41 degrees around noon. Temperature kept falling in the afternoon so by 5pm it was 38 and ’twas windy all day…brrrrr! The stinkhorn (Phallus) was out however. I cut it open to take a gander at its inners. Hollow…