Native Plants and Wildlife Gardens
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Problems from Bird Strikes January, 2009: Capt. Chesley Sullenberger ditches Flight 1549 in the Hudson River after colliding with a flock of geese following takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York. April 24 , 2012: A JetBlue plane bound for West Palm Beach, Fla., makes an emergency landing at Westchester Coumty Airport north of New York City after a bird [...]
It is a rather bleak and chilly January morning, when I happily sight this striking red fox making her way into the 2009 winter fields and gardens.Yet another wild beast to thrill this observer. Flower Hill Farm’s ‘A Bestiary’ continues with the Vulpes vulpes vixen — at least I want to believe this to be a [...]
Sometime last spring, my neighbor began feeding birds by throwing out whole buckets of stale white-bread rolls on his front yard. I was dismayed, but helping my husband live well with brain cancer took most of my time and attention, so I ignored it, hoping he’d realize it was a bad idea and quit. He [...]
Our Eastern coyote Canis latrans var., is a good bit larger than its cousins out west. This handsome beast has wolf Canis lupus lycaon, genes – 300,000 years old at least – meandering in its warm blood mix. Some scientists believe that the endangered red wolf Canis rufus, met up with a coyote moving east, where others state that [...]
I wrote about this on my blog, but it begs a wider audience, especially since so little of our prairie country is left. This week the Nebraska state senate is, most likely, passing a bill–LB473–that will allow the government to go on to private land and poison prairie dogs, which are being classified as noxious [...]
Crack of dawn the pair of Carolina Wrens that call our yard “home” sing their joyful “tea kettle, tea kettle, tea kettle” and we know they’ve survived another night. A dear friend gave us a roosting basket which we hung that very day. One of our Carolina Wrens began using it immediately to safely survive [...]
Encountering wildlife in the gardens, fields and forest, here at Flower Hill Farm is most always a great joy for me. It adds the spicy element of suspense and fluid animation to life . . . akin to standing in a quiet forest and hearing the wind suddenly enter in the distance . . . [...]
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In many areas where animal migrations can be large, seasonal and visible, as on the prairies and plains of Wyoming, Utah and Montana, wildlife-friendly fencing is a necessity, an art, and a science. Many species of wildlife undergo seasonal movements to seek food, water or breeding habitat, and their migrations make for great Discovery Channel viewing. Ski [...]
I have just joined this blog as a new contributor, and as I was thinking about what I wanted to write for my first post, Mother Nature literally almost dropped her suggestion on our doorstep – so I figured I would listen. This past Thursday morning my husband, Chris, and I got up and started [...]
How we manage our wildlife habitat can mean survival or NOT for the very creatures we attract. Leaving a dead tree standing, a branch with a “hollow” uncut, creating a loose brush pile of fallen limbs, not raking leaves – all of these choices just might mean that the Mourning Cloaks of your garden will [...]
