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Happy Iowa wildflower Wednesday!
Jeff Ewoldt found wild roses, wild asparagus, and several other wildflowers blooming on a mountain bike ride around Spencer in early June.
#Iowa #wildflowers #prairie #nativeplants
https://www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/06/25/iowa-wildflower-wednesday-early-summer-in-clay-county/

Bird of the Day — Burrowing Owl, Nebraska 2020

#Birds #NaturePhotography #Nature #Wildlife #NatureCommunity #Photography #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching #Owls #FlyoverCountry #Prairie

Flying bird, head tilted toward camera. Rounded head, yellow iris, brown and white banded wings, against a pale blue sky

My weekly contribution at Balloon Juice.

#Birds #NaturePhotography #Nature #Wildlife #NatureCommunity #Photography #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching #Sparrows #FlyoverCountry #Prairie

https://balloon-juice.com/2025/06/23/on-the-road-albatrossity-moving-through-may/

Bird of the Day — Henslow's Sparrow, Kansas 2024

#Birds #NaturePhotography #Nature #Wildlife #NatureCommunity #Photography #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching #Sparrows #FlyoverCountry #Prairie

Small streaky brown bird with head tossed back and bill wide open, singing from a green shrubby perch

#silentsunday #macro #photography #nature #prairie

Bumble bee closeup on chokecherry blossom

Les graminés en demi-deuil.

(Papillon demi-deuil, Indre, Fr, 06/25)

#PhotographieNature #PhotographieAnimale #PhotographieInsecte #Insecte #Lepidoptera #Lepidoptère #Papillon #DemiDeuil #PapillonDemiDeuil #Champ #Prairie #Ete #NaturePhotography #AnimalPhotography #InsectPhotography #Insect #Butterfly #Meadow #Field #Summer

Un papillon demi-deuil (avec des ailes blanches décorées de motifs noirs comme de la dentelle) sur une graminé toute sèche. L'insecte est entouré d'autres herbes plus ou moins vertes ou jaunes.

Les grandes oreilles.

(Lièvre d'Europe, Indre, Fr, 06/25)

#PhotographieNature #PhotographieAnimale #BaladeNature #Observation #Lagomorphes #Lievre #LievreDEurope #Prairie #Printemps #Ete #NaturePhotography #AnimalPhotography #Hare #Summer #Spring

Un lièvre d'Europe en train de courir dans un champ fauché avec des herbes de repousse

Depuis son enfance, Michaël n’a qu’une seule idée en tête : vivre paisiblement avec des animaux, loin de...#PRAIRIE #CP5540 #ANIMAUX #REFUGE #VEWS #AGIMONT
Hastière : le 'sanctuaire' pour animaux de Michaël est en danger - RTBF Actus

蘭嶼的青青大草原，感覺非常的舒服～
聽朋友說很多恙蟲～最好是穿長褲。

Watercolor on paper.

#台灣 #Taiwan #蘭嶼 #Lanyu #大草原 #prairie #mountain #painting #watercolor #水彩 #artist

Spiderwort about to bloom. #prairie #wildflower

Close-ups of those mystery native blossoms in my window box I posted about earlier, now that the light's better. The structure is fascinating. #stlouis #prairie #bloom #bloomscrolling #flower

I don't recall what kind of flower this is, I got the seedling from a purveyor of regional plants a couple springs ago, thought it died and then never got around to reseeding this window box this year, yet here it is sprouting and blooming mightily on its own again. #mosstadon #prairie #flower #stlouis #bloom #bloomscrolling

The little vampire, yellow rattle (Rhinanthus minor) is now in seed. The color is the late spring -- early summer flowers:

Purple: self-heal

Light blue: prairie lupine
Med blue: sickle keel lupine

White: Western yarrow
White: Dutch white clover

Yellow: Oregon sunshine
Orange: California poppy
Rose pink: farewell-to-spring

All these, except prairie lupine, are easy from seed. And, of course, the dutch white clover comes on its own.

#meadow #prairie #WashingtonState #NativePlants

A view along a sidewalk of a meadow planting backed by Hinoki cypress and red barberry. Some of the plants grow out over the sidewalk. White yarrow and dutch white clover nearest, some rose fare-well-to spring near and in the distance, middle distance California poppies, and lots of yellow Oregon sunshine. If you look carefully in the distance you can see a light blue prairie lupine spilling out on the side walk.

Photo taken mid-June 2025 north of Seattle. Public Domain.

A front yard meadow planting in front of red brick apartment building and a border planting featuring a giant out of bloom rugosa rose, an evergreen huckleberry, a rosemary, and a blooming Lavatera. The meadow has large drift of yellow Oregon sunshine in the middle, blue sickle-keel lupine to the left and in front across the whole garden yellow rattle seed pods give the grass a brownish look.

Photo taken mid-June 2025 north of Seattle. Public Domain.

A view along a sidewalk of a meadow planting backed by Hinoki cypress and red barberry. Some of the plants grow out over the sidewalk. Left to right you can see lots of yellow Oregon sunshine, light blue prairie lupine, and lots of rose colored fare-well-to spring.

If you look carefully behind the backdrop and a plastic white picket fence, you can see a bunch of garden leeks in the veggie garden in bud. I was going to pull them out, but this photo convinced me to let them bloom.

Photo taken mid-June 2025 north of Seattle. Public Domain.

"Why would I bother turning my underside brown for the summer? It's not like anyone can see... wait."

It's hard to tell from these pictures, but his back half is flopped on his side, and his back feet are sticking out behind him (or her). Pretty relaxed for a wild prey animal. You know the drill: white-tailed jackrabbit, which is actually a species of hare, not rabbit.

#wildlife #jackrabbit #hare #rabbit #RabbitsOfMastodon #SK #YQR #prairie

A closer view of a white-tailed jackrabbit sprawled on a suburban lawn in the middle of the Canadian prairies. It has mottled brown-grey fur on its upper sides, with dark markings at the tips of its ears. It is lying flat on the grass, with the rear half of its body rotated to flop on its side, with the rear feet sticking out behind. The visible underparts have white fur, kind of ruining the camouflage effect.

A white-tailed jackrabbit sprawled on a suburban lawn. It's head is lying on the ground, ears mostly swept back, rear half rotated and flopped on its side, rear feet sticking out behind. All in all, a relaxed hare.

"Is this far enough apart to remind you that we're solitary animals, not social ones?"

Two white-tailed jackrabbits [1] snoozing separately on my front lawn, keeping to the shade in the heat of an early summer afternoon.

[1] Repeat: a species of hare, not actually a rabbit at all.

#hare #wildlife #SK #YQR #prairie #rabbit #RabbitsOfMastodon #snooze #shade

Two white-tailed jackrabbits, which are actually a species of hare rather than rabbit, slumber in the heat of a summer early afternoon. Being solitary animals rather than social, they are both in the shade, but remain about 20 feet / 6 meters apart.

Their legs are tucked up underneath their bodies, with their ears laid back against their body. Because of the mottled grey and brown colouring, if you don't look carefully they can just look like a rock.

Happy Iowa wildflower Wednesday!
I learned a lot from Katie Byerly's post about false indigo—a legume, bush, insect pollinator, bird habitat, and native wildflower in the Midwest.
#Iowa #wildflowers #nativeplants #nature #prairie #bloomscrolling
https://www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/06/11/iowa-wildflower-wednesday-false-indigo/

[ACTU] Fertilisation des prairies : au-delà d’un certain seuil, la biodiversité se perd 🌾🐾
https://www.actu-environnement.com/ae/news/etude-inrae-cnrs-fertilisation-prairies-services-ecosystemiques-46288.php4
#Fertilisation #prairie #biodiversité #sequéstrationcarbone #filtrageeau #paturage #environnementdurable

My #solar panels on the #prairie.

[ACTU] Identifier les seuils écologiques pour une gestion optimisée de la biodiversité et des écosystèmes
https://www.inrae.fr/actualites/identifier-seuils-ecologiques-gestion-optimisee-biodiversite-ecosystemes
#biodiversity #écosystèmes #environnement #seuilécologique #changementclimatique #prairie #fertilisationdessols

Last week I paid a visit to Andy Goldsworthy's Prairie Cairn. I was on a botanical tour of the prairie area, and I think I was the only one who stopped and looked at the art. #AndyGoldsworthy #Prairie #Sculpture

#prairie

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