Photo Gallery

Baby Tufted Titmouse
Just learning how to fly.
Blue Jay
Carolina Wren
Their songs let us know spring is on the way
Cedar Waxwing
Coopers Hawk
The more native trees and shrubs the more variety of birds.
Coopers Hawk Flying
Picture time is done, it was fun.
Dark-eyed Junco
Dark-eyed Junco sometimes called a snowbird.
Doves
Do you ever feel someone is watching you?
Downy Woodpecker
Eastern Blue Bird Female
Eastern Blue Bird Male
Eastern Blue Bird Pair
House Finch
House Finch Pair
Mocking Bird
We enjoy the different songs the Mockingbird sings.
Pileated Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Pecans are a perfect winter snack
Titmouse
One seed can be a lot of work
White-breasted nuthatch
Winter Cardinal
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
This is a bird with lots of personality
Yellow-rumped warbler
Baby five lined Skink
These adorable creatures eat lots of insects, spiders and millipedes.
Black Swallowtail
Monarda fistulosa (Wild Bergamot) is a beautiful nectar source.
Cabbage White
Everyone likes a little Asclepias incarnata (Rose milkweed) nectar.
Clouded Yellow
Planting native provides for several species.
Coral honeysuckle
Lonicera sempervirens / Native Coral honeysuckle always has nectar loving visitors.
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Only female Tiger Swallowtails are sometimes dark in color.
First year
First year habitat restoration visitors.
Great things in small packages
Eastern-tailed blue
Hummingbird with Blue Lobelia
Milkweed Beetle
Milkweed beetles are harmless and interesting to watch. Each one has a different pattern.
Milkweed beetles mating
Monarch larva
Asclepias (Milkweed genus) is the only plant a Monarch larva can eat therefore the only plant a Monarch will lay her eggs on. The Milkweed family is essential for Monarch survival.
Monarch on Common Milkweed
Mydas Fly
Beneficial insect
Mydas Fly is a beneficial insect
Larvae eat mainly beetle larvae while in the ground. When they fly you can see an orange band at the base of there wings.
Plant it and they will come
Second year habitat restoration.
Plenty to share
Tussock Moth larva
Slowing down to see life in a prairie.
Yellow Swallowtail
Echinacea purpurea / Purple Coneflower has lots of visitors.
Zebra Swallowtail
Zebra Swallowtail on Swamp Rose Milkweed / Asclepias incarnata.
Bird houses help us get to know each other
Duane & Trisha's habitat
We love our city yard habitat, just the place to unwind.
Just the place to relax after work
Kellie's
New front landscaping with natives. Keeping it simple
Mixing it up
Close planting helps keep the weeds out.
The Woodall family's monarchs from our first year of milkweed.
The Woodall family's monarchs from our first year of milkweed.
Woodall Family first Milkweed Visitor
Woodall Family's first year Milkweed brings life.