Blue Jay Barrens

This has been a year of flood and drought at Blue Jay Barrens.  There have been several heavy rain events that dropped inches of water...

Rainfall patterns have been decidedly odd so far this year.  January and February both had below average precipitation.  March had 6.6 in...

The Wood Frog tadpoles have been growing rapidly and have just about eliminated algae and soft plant material from the pond.  In a typica...

Tadpoles distorted by curved glass.   This is a vision right out of my pre-school days.   I believed that a jar was wasted if it didn’t...

Six weeks ago, Blue Jay Barrens was experiencing a record flood event.   The rain creating that flood was the last significant rainfall...

I call this color Blue Heron Green because its development in the water garden is always preceded by the visit of a Great Blue Heron. This i...

This is what the pond looked like on Tuesday morning. During the spring it seemed to rain every other day and the pond never lacked for wate...