At a trail at the Theodore Wirth park in Minnesota. Saturday May 10
Looks a lot like Motherwort, but already has the smell of garlic. Â Once plant grows it will be easier to tell just by looking at it. Â Future posts will show future growth stages of garlic mustard. Â Very invasive plant, pull, eat or discard appropriately.
It’s been a cold spring season in MN this year (2014).
At a trail at the Theodore Wirth park in Minnesota. Saturday May 10.
Future photos will show other stages of this plant’s growth / life cycle.
This is early spring, a colder than usual spring season.
Could you identify this plant / weed that’s in my backyard?
It has white sap, red stems, hairy stems, hair on the under side of the leaves, a red lining around leaves, not a square stem.
I think this is hemerocallis or daylily.
Came across a field of these plants, April 21 2014 .. after a long and colder than usual winter and cold Spring, plants are eager to return back to life, a lot like people.
Nice field with the shade of the sun and green colors looking very nice.
Tubers:
I replanted this plant in the same spot i pulled it out from for the photo.
I have a few plants trying to identify, here’s the first
Is it ground ivy (creeping charlie) or motherwort?
Photos taken 4/21/2014 (Minnesota)
video taken 04/19/2014
This one is a video taken 04/21/2014 of the same area after raking, it clearly shows a dried up shoot / stem that is square
Sunday 04/06/2-14 at Richardson Nature Center in Bloomington. An American Kestrel female, sharp little raptor (falcon).
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Let the sun shine
through
for the green buds
to
grow
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March 24, 2012
At Lebanon Hills Regional Park, Eagan, MN Taken with a Canon Rebel XSi 12.2 MP D-SLR Camera
Glowing Amber? Inner Sun? Golden Gem Stone, the Philosopher’s Stone?
Molten Glass? Frozen Water? A Geological Formation?
Hmm, what is this?
Here’s a close-up
Ok, I’ll show you.
It’s resin from a tree, here’s the branch
This inner glow, or “inner fire” here is nothing but the sun light shining on this substance
Nature painting itself shadows on a rock
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March 24, 2012
At Lebanon Hills Regional Park, Eagan, MN Taken with a Canon Rebel XSi 12.2 MP D-SLR Camera
This little gal is looking for food in this decomposing tree
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Hairy Woodpecker (female)
Photos not enhanced in any way, only cropped from the larger original
Next to Starring Lake, Eden Prairie MN :: April 12, 2010
An authentic watercolor painting
by nature.
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A Weeping Willow’s (this tree) Reflection in the spring
On Starring Lake, Eden Prairie MN :: April 12, 2010
Taken with a Canon Rebel XSi 12.2 MP D-SLR Camera
The reflection of this weeping willow has been digitally enhanced. Only contrast was increased and brightness reduced. No other alterations (except for resizing the image from the original larger size).
Digitally editing this photo to increase contrast resulted in this stunning almost 3-D photo
enjoy,
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A Weeping Willow Tree in the spring
On Starring Lake, Eden Prairie MN :: April 12, 2010
Taken with a Canon Rebel XSi 12.2 MP D-SLR Camera
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A Weeping Willow Tree in the spring
On Starring Lake, Eden Prairie MN :: April 12, 2010
Taken with a Canon Rebel XSi 12.2 MP D-SLR Camera
I like this bird, I don’t see it often enough.
Photo shot from 30 ft away
It is exciting to see a Red-Bellied Woodpecker, and these birds are smart and they simply look pleasant (happy), I think it’s their eyes and face that give me this impression.
You may wonder, why this bird is red-bellied while it clearly is red-headed?
The answer is simple, the belly is red, we just can’t see it.
I am 50-80 feet away from the bird here
I think this bird could have been named “zebra” (for the zebra-pattern black and white color on its back, wings and tail), red-crowned, or red-necked bird.
Red-bellied woodpeckers are relatively new to the North. Like northern cardinals, northern mockingbirds and tufted titmice, these birds are native to the Southeast. It’s only been in the late part of last century that they pioneered northward. Now these birds are found through the Upper Midwest and Northeast from the Great Plains east to New England.
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A Red-Bellied Woodpecker
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A sparrow?
Next to Starring Lake, Eden Prairie MN :: April 12, 2010
Taken with a Canon Rebel XSi 12.2 MP D-SLR Camera
I love the sounds these little things make
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White-breasted Nuthatch
Shot April 04, 2010 ::Â Big Willow Park, Minnetonka, MN
Taken with a Canon Rebel XSi 12.2 MP D-SLR Camera
My first time to photograph an otter
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Otter
Shot April 04, 2010 ::Â Big Willow Park, Minnetonka, MN
Taken with a Canon Rebel XSi 12.2 MP D-SLR Camera
As I was ending my walk and heading back, I could hear my little yellow friend chirping, looked up another tree and there it was, still too busy singing to care for me snapping more photos of it. It looked at me as I stood there a few times, allowing me to snap some good shots and kept on singing. Here are some of the photos:
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Walking along the trail at the Big Willow Park, I heard this non stop twittering and chirping, looked up and I saw this pretty little American Goldfinch. It was too busy singing to care for me snapping my shots. It looked at me as I stood there a few times, and kept on singing.
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American Goldfinch in the spring
Shot April 03, 2010 ::Â Big Willow Park, Minnetonka, MN
While driving home at 5:00PM on an overcast day I noticed eagles in the sky. Luckily I knew where they were going. I got off the street and they landed in the wetland where I was waiting about 100ft away.
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A sure sign of spring!
Shot in a residential neighborhood alley in the city of Hopkins, MN
Shot April 2, 2010
Taken with a Canon Rebel XSi 12.2 MP D-SLR Camera
Beautiful eye-catching red Cardinal.
About to Fly
Flying
This Northern Cardinal has very little black around the bill.
Lowering his crest (yes it’s a he) as he flies.
Shot March 24, 2010
Taken with a Canon Rebel XSi 12.2 MP D-SLR Camera
Enjoying Stillness
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We, humans, ought to learn from Geese, learn to enjoy stillness and just ‘being’
A Canada Goose enjoying stillness on the partially ice-covered Starring Lake in Eden Prairie, MN
March 24, 2010
Taken with a Canon Rebel XSi 12.2 MP D-SLR Camera
Black bird against the blue sky with a little surprise
1. Fluffing myself
2. Yeah, that feels good!
3. My true color, my blue goes well with black
4. Here we go..
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Common Grackle from the Blackbird Family :: with an interesting shade of blue
Next to Starring Lake, Eden Prairie MN :: March 24, 2010
Looking for food
I think I see something I can eat
Yes, yum!
Maybe this tree has some more food?
What next??
White-breasted Nuthatch
Fort Snelling State Park, MN ::Â Â March 14, 2010 (early spring)
Taken with a Canon Rebel XSi 12.2 MP D-SLR Camera
Find more about White-breasted Nuthatch on this website
This is a Downy Woodpecker (male)
Fort Snelling State Park Birds, MN ::Â Â March 14, 2010 (early spring)
Taken with a Canon Rebel XSi 12.2 MP D-SLR Camera
Find the difference between a Downy and a Hairy Woodpecker on this website
American Goldfinch (non-breeding – female)
Fort Snelling State Park Birds, MN ::Â Â March 14, 2010 (early spring)
Taken with a Canon Rebel XSi 12.2 MP D-SLR Camera
Black-capped Chickadee – enjoying a black oil sunflower
Fort Snelling State Park Birds, MN ::Â Â March 14, 2010 (early spring)
Taken with a Canon Rebel XSi 12.2 MP D-SLR Camera
