April 2019

Happy Earth Day to Me!

Earth Day 2019 brought five indigo buntings to my wildlife habitat. I only occasionally see them and when I do it’s rarely more than one elusive bugger, but this week I have gotten to share my green space with five of the beauties and they even let me take their photo.  It’s so amazing to […]

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The baby lubber grasshoppers are here … be happy for the mama birds!

Lubber grasshopper babies emerge in the spring to coincide with all the new songbird babies of spring.  Lubber grasshoppers are a very important food source for our songbirds in the springtime. Newly emerged grasshopper nymphs don’t last very long once they hatch out of the ground because of the variety of wildlife that consumes them. 

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