Tree swallow on a nest box.
A nest box along the Pike River.
Groundhog on a small hill.
Hawk in a tree.
A walk along the Pike River Pathway this afternoon just after the storms moved out.
#Birds #nature #wildlife #Wisconsin
This was supposed to be our "drying out period". Instead we got heavy downpours and hail.
Fly on marsh marigold.
#nativeplants #insects #garden #Wisconsin
Wild golden glow seedlings.
Hyssop seedlings
Zig zag goldenrod seedlings
Ninebark seedlings
Another peek in the milk jugs.
#nativeplants #garden #gardening #Wisconsin
Fast forward three months and honestly its going so well I don't know why I wasn't actively doing this before. I think I've seen growth in at least 12 of 14 containers. This will be my go-to method for seed starting from now on.
Rattlesnake master.
#nativeplants #nativegarden #gardening #Wisconsin
Yes, they've been blooming since March and they start producing buds when there's still snow on the ground. Here's what they looked like exactly one month ago today.
Bumble bee on geum triflorum.
It's that time of year again where I find a weak bumble bee on my basement floor. A trip to the prairie smoke usually does the trick.
#bees #nativeplants
I feel the same way when I see people a bit south of me posting their plant photos. But this time of year all it takes is a week of warm weather to speed up the plant growth.
Marsh marigold with prairie smoke in the background.
Marsh marigold
#nativeplants #nativegarden #gardening #Wisconsin
Rue anemone.
#nativeplants #nativegarden #gardening #Wisconsin
With any luck maybe they'll replace them with callery pear. 😆😭
Tornado warnings cancelled. This is a big storm, very loud. Heavy, heavy rain. Tornado apparently spotted by the Mitchell International Airport controllers.
I'm in a tornado warning. Again.
I took a short video when I visited the hidden cascade in the park the other day.
Some sort of interesting fungus growing on a bunch of my logs.
I leveled the left side garden bricks today. Might need a few slight adjustments but it's mainly complete. Next: adding soil to the left side garden, planting more #nativeplants, and finishing the woodchip pathway.
And another one.
A wild turkey in a neighbor's yard after wandering through mine.
#birds #Wisconsin
I don't get too many boxelder bugs inside surprisingly, but I do get lots of brown marmorated stink bugs. There's almost always one crawling around a window somewhere in the house. 🙁
Yup. It's annoying. I've been having occasional issues with Bluesky in general lately but today its bad.
Yeah, they have a huge range across the eastern half of the country. We actually have a few opuntia species here in Wisconsin. Now I just need to throw a cage around them so the rabbits don't immediately destroy them. And I have SO many rabbits this year.
My Eastern prickly pears have arrived! And shout out to the mining bee for making it look like I staged it there.
#nativeplants #bees #opuntia #cactus #Wisconsin
White-tailed deer
Boxelder bugs mating on a shed wall.
False milkweed bugs mating on a leaf in my native garden.
Boxelder bugs and false milkweed bugs making more bugs.
#bugs #insects #Wisconsin
Please, take it!
Not gonna lie, I didn't even realize there were two bees in the first photo. 👀
