Blue Jay Barrens

I’ve had a family group of Common Flickers hanging around for a couple of weeks. They’ve been making extensive use of my woodpecker tree. He...

What a lovely sight to come across while walking in the woods. Well, if your goal is to maintain a healthy ecosystem full of native plants...

I think the Disney animators have been sneaking around my prairies because I’m seeing animal characteristics in all the flowers. Here’s a ...

While walking beside the house I noticed movement behind the dirty window in the cellar door and saw a butterfly fluttering against the gla...

In the yard beside our house, I found another ant colony sending off its fertile adults. Here are a couple of the young winged queen ants ...

This is the site of an old loggers landing. During a logging operation, cut logs are brought to these landings to be loaded on to trucks f...

There are many types of Barrens at Blue Jay Barrens. Barren development here is most influenced by the type of bedrock, position on the la...