Category Archives: Local Flora and Fauna

Forgotten Pictures of 2021: Frogs

Posted on 01/17/2022 by chick
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SITY: Points of View

Posted on 01/14/2022 by chick

In January of last year I showed you a picture of an ant farming aphids on a maple-leaved viburnum. That picture had been taken in the late summer or early fall of the previous year. During the spring of last … Continue reading →

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SITY: Hello, Yellow

Posted on 12/21/2021 by chick

We’re approaching the end of the year, and it’s a good time to clear out my blog drafts folder. There are several SITY posts waiting to be finished up and published. It may be the wrong time of year for … Continue reading →

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SITY: Westerners

Posted on 11/28/2021 by chick

“I don’t want to alarm you,” my husband said as he walked into my office. “But…” If his plan was not to alarm me, it backfired. I immediately felt alarmed. And the situation was somewhat alarming, at least on the … Continue reading →

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SITY: Beautiful Leaves, Beautiful Trees

Posted on 11/13/2021 by chick

It wasn’t hard to figure out what kind of tree this was. The pattern on the bark and the leaf shape pointed to ash, and the fall leaf color suggested white ash specifically. The identity of this tree actually cleared … Continue reading →

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Ramblings

Posted on 11/03/2021 by chick

A whole month elapsed between the time I took the first photo of beechdrops (9/26) and the last photo (10/28). If you’d asked me how long it was, I would have said maybe two weeks. I only seem to understand … Continue reading →

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Fall Sun-Catcher

Posted on 11/02/2021 by chick

This is a plant that I’ve found at all of the rocky clearings in the woods, as well as the meadowy area near the power-line corridor. I’ve identified it as little bluestem, a native grass. “Little bluestem” seems almost like … Continue reading →

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A Plant for Halloween

Posted on 10/31/2021 by chick

Halloween deserves a creepy plant, and I have just the one. This plant is called beechdrops. I’m not the only person to think that it looks creepy. As the writer at one wildflower website put it, “From a distance, this … Continue reading →

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Autumn’s Pinks and Purples

Posted on 10/30/2021 by chick
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Charmer

Posted on 10/26/2021 by chick

It’s a good thing I was hunting so carefully for interesting things in the woods last week or I might have walked right past this charming wildflower. Isn’t this plant lovely? My field guide calls it “tall cordyalis,” but many … Continue reading →

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