Blue Jay Barrens

Last October I posted about a baby snapping turtle I found in the water garden. Since I didn’t want to end up with a large snapper in the w...

As I go around evaluating potential projects for the coming winter season, I check out recently completed projects to see if I achieved my d...

The drought has certainly stripped the color from the prairie landscape at Blue Jay Barrens. We’ve only had the one light frost, so I would ...

This is the most common time of year for finding evidence of reptile egg clutches. I’m always happy to see these signs that reptiles are suc...

One of the best autumn features is the colorful wooded landscape. Blue Jay Barrens has had a miserable showing of color this year. The large...

This is the time of year that I plan for the management work I’ll be doing this coming winter. For the past two years I’ve been removing inv...

The temperature dropped to 30 degrees yesterday morning and I decided to slip out back to see if the whiteness on the grass was actually fro...