Blue Jay Barrens

Prairie Dock doesn’t typically suffer much insect predation, so a clump of brown leaves in the Prairie Dock patch easily caught my attenti...

Squirrels have always been a common yard mammal at Blue Jay Barrens.   Gray Squirrels normally dominate, but during the past year, Fox Squ...

Two years ago I encountered this medium sized shrub in an odd corner near the road.   I couldn’t identify it at the time, even though ther...

My list of plant species found naturally growing at Blue Jay Barrens continues to expand.   The latest addition to the list, Number 535, i...

When managing land for biological systems, there are many factors over which you have no control.   Some of these have an enormous influen...

Eastern Moles tunneled extensively through my vegetable garden during this past winter.   They are no longer active and the tunnels they l...

The blooms of my favorite milkweed are quickly fading from the prairie landscape.   Spider Milkweed, Asclepias viridis, is an early season...