When You Find a Baby Bird
David Wheeler and Little Friend It's that time of year - baby bird season. Lots of people are finding baby birds in their yards, and want to help, bless them. Little…
Mimic Birds
As you walk through the Nature Preserve, you may hear a veritable flock of different birds singing at the same time. Sometimes you truly are hearing different birds, such as…
Leaves of Three
Hopefully, most people are familiar with the saying, Leaves of three, let it be. That's Poison Ivy. Poison Ivy is native to North America and tends to grow along the edges- edges…
April Showers Bring…
Remember the Disney movie Fantasia? One part of this animation set to classical music has little mushrooms dancing around to the Nutcracker Suite as Chinese characters . Louisville’s monthly rainfall total of…
What’s in a Name?
Prairie Warbler For a birder, or a person who loves wildflowers, it's hard enough learning the name and appearance of the bird or flower so you can recognize them in…
Help! We’ve Been Invaded
Kudzu While we enjoy the spring wildflowers, I hope you all notice some other plants that sprout in spring too - plants we call invasives. Historically, an "invasion" occurs when someone enters…
The Birds are Singing!
Spring is here and the birds are singing everywhere! It's too cool! I like to bird by ear, since I can be binocular challenged sometimes. It's especially wonderful when a…
What is that Purple Patch?
"What in the world are all those purple flowers growing in that field?" When we drive along country fields that have not yet been sown in a crop, we often…
It’s a Bloomin’ Flower!
Wood Poppy We tend to take flowers for granted. They are pretty and smell nice in the spring. We like to have them in our gardens.We know that flowers must…
One Week Later…
During the last week, we've had rain, snow, sunshine, warm temperatures, and cold temperatures. In other words, typical for late March in Kentucky. The spring wildflower season is progressing too. Last…