Blue Jay Barrens

The warm, sunny weather has the trees and shrubs racing to display their blooms and get on with fruit production. This is the flower of Wild...

The Wild Turkey nesting season is underway and I’ve stumbled upon a nest with egg number one of what should turn out to be a clutch of about...

Having the fields mowed makes it easy to follow the growth of the early spring plants. The fields have only been mowed three times in 25 yea...

The birds have been busy filling Blue Jay Barrens with nests. This is the nest of the Eastern Phoebe. No eggs yet, but it won’t be long. The...

This tiny plant is called Ophioglossum or Adder’s Tongue Fern. At barely two inches tall, it produces a single, fleshy leaf. Mature plants w...

This Nodding Wild Onion, Allium cernuum , hasn’t been incarcerated because of bad behavior; it’s simply being held in protective custody. It...

The simplest of flowers often display the greatest beauty. It’s not hard to see where the Spring Beauty, Claytonia virginica , came by its...