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Wildflowers - 11 March

All photos were taken at Watercress Park in Van Buren except for the the Creeping Charlie, which was taken in my yard.

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Checking the Rookery

Some twenty years ago, while beating around the river bottom looking for birds, I followed the grunts and honks of several Great Blue Herons and found a group of three nests in a large sycamore. Over the years, the rookery grew with more than thirty active nests some seasons. Having seen the herons active […]

Hunt for the Harbinger II

The weatherman was right about the rain, if not the thunder, but it held off long enough that I was able to get out and make another attempt to find a Harbinger-of-Spring. The other locations I wanted to check were in the Rogers Creek-Waymeyer-Pin Oak area and my mother lives out in that direction, so […]

Ozark Witch Hazel Revisited

Well, I was correct about one thing in yesterday’s post. I did not find an actual Ozark Witch Hazel plant. I know that now because I found quite a few of them today.

At our regular morning bull session, I mentioned to Mike Gossett (the park’s Aquatic Biologist and my former high school science teacher) […]

It's 25 degrees outside

with 10 mph wind gusts and spitting snow. So what do I do? I decide to go out and see if I can find an Ozark Witch Hazel (Hamamelis vernalis) in bloom. It’s times like this that I sometimes question my sanity! đŸ™‚

Usually found in gravely or rocky stream banks, often in the water, […]